Michigan State hires Mel Tucker away from Colorado
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
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'.
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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. |
| 0:08.7 | We'll talk about some of the candidates for that Colorado job, what that hire means for the PAC 12, and then some great mailbag questions, including, can Notre Dame win a national title in the very near future? |
| 0:22.7 | That's next on the A Taddle |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:51.3 | Bruce last week, I think at the end of the podcast, I said, |
| 0:55.5 | we're going to spend most of this week's episode answering your email questions barring some sort of bombshell |
| 1:00.3 | like Mark D'Antonio retiring. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, the night before we're recording this, late at night, you broke the latest coaching |
| 1:08.2 | carousel bombshell. |
| 1:10.0 | Michigan State does have a coach, and it is Mel Tucker from Colorado, who's only been |
| 1:15.1 | at Colorado for one year and who very vehemently and publicly recommitted himself late |
| 1:22.9 | last week saying he was going to stay at Colorado. |
| 1:26.8 | He was speaking at a Colorado booster function literally like a couple hours before |
| 1:31.7 | this news got out. |
| 1:35.0 | What happened? |
| 1:36.1 | Some crazy timing all around, Stu. |
| 1:37.9 | I'm going to walk you guys through this a little bit. |
| 1:40.8 | So from my reporting, Tucker had been really targeted by some key Michigan State decision |
| 1:50.3 | makers in this process early on. |
| 1:52.7 | And they had reached out to him, I think it was Friday, maybe even Thursday of late |
| 1:59.3 | last week. |
| 2:01.1 | And he wanted to, it felt like I'm going to stay at, at CU, what we have going here. |
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