Michigan State hires Mel Tucker away from Colorado

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Stewart Mandel & Bruce Feldman react to Michigan State hiring Mel Tucker away from Colorado. Bruce goes behind-the-scenes and explains how it all went down while Stew shares his opinion on the coaching search as a whole. Who is on the shortlist to replace Tucker in Boulder? Is the Pac 12 being left behind the rest of power 5 college football? The guys answer mailbag questions on Notre Dame & Oklahoma. Plus, the new coaches hotseat game titled 'Mild, Medium or Helton'. Subscribe to The Athletic (40% off): www.theathletic.com/theaudible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the audible, Bruce takes us behind the scenes of the coaching search that led to Michigan State hiring Colorado's Mel Tucker.
0:08.6	We'll talk about some of the candidates for that Colorado job, what that hire means for the PAC 12, and then some
0:16.0	great mailbag questions including Can Notre Dame win a national title in the
0:20.8	very near future. That's next on the audible. Welcome to the audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel joined as
0:49.3	always by Bruce Feldman. Bruce last week I think at the end of the podcast I said we're going to spend most
0:55.7	of this week's episode answering your email questions barring some sort of
0:59.6	bombshell like Mark Antonio retiring well the night before we're recording this,
1:05.0	late at night you broke the latest coaching carousel bombshell.
1:09.0	Michigan State does have a coach and it is Mel Tucker from Colorado who's only been at
1:15.2	Colorado for one year and who very vehemently and publicly recommitted himself
1:22.0	last week saying he was going to stay at Colorado.
1:26.0	He was speaking at a Colorado booster function literally like a couple hours before
1:32.0	this news got out. What happened?
1:36.0	Some crazy timing all around, Stu. I'm going to walk you guys through this a little bit.
1:40.6	So from my reporting Tucker had been really targeted by some key
1:48.2	Michigan State decision-makers in this process early on and they had reached out to him. I think it
1:56.0	was Friday, maybe even Thursday of late last week and the key wanted to, it felt like I'm going to stay at at CU what we have going here but he was as you
2:10.0	said was in the middle of this donor tour where he was I think at that point he
2:14.4	might have been in Southern California I think he was in San Diego and he
2:17.8	addressed it and then he he tweeted what he said and I'm sure it came up on this donor tour where these are very
2:27.0	informal and kind of not one-on-one meetings but some of them are kind of like that and so that happened and then he was
2:37.1	kind of seemed to be out of the search and then it went through with Luke Fickle and then he said thanks but no thanks and I don't
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