With start of the season looming, Mel Tucker provides clarity on what's next for MSU football
It has been anything but a normal transition for Mel Tucker ever since he became Michigan State's new head coach back on Feb.12.
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It has been anything but a normal transition for Mel Tucker ever since he became Michigan State's new head coach back on Feb.12.
Big Ten college football is finally here. For some, it is a great reason to celebrate, but as Michigan State Athletic Director Bill Beekman warned Wednesday, it is also a time to be even more responsible.
Big Ten football is back.
Well, it finally happened.
After postponing the season Aug. 11 and dealing with a month’s worth of scrutiny, Big Ten presidents and chancellors voted in favor of restarting the college football season, with a targeted return date of Oct. 23-24 according to a release published by the conference on Wednesday.
Michigan State head coach Mel Tucker secured another commitment for his 2021 class Sunday, when three-star running back Audric Estime chose the green and white over Arizona State, Duke and Iowa, among others.
You may not be able to watch the 2020 Michigan State football team take the field this fall, but former Spartans began taking the NFL field earlier this month.
Michigan State athletics announced on Tuesday that 12 student-athletes tested positive for the COVID-19 during the Aug. 29 to Sept. 6 testing window. In total, the athletics department tested 168 student-athletes.
Since the Big Ten's postponement of the college football season in August, the conference has become a whirlwind of speculation and differing opinions as to when the season will start back up again.
The past six months have left little to the imagination, with everything from the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic to social justice movements as a result of police brutality. Not to mention the tragic deaths to well known figures such as Kobe Bryant and Chadwick Boseman.
MSU head football coach Mel Tucker has brought in his first four-star recruit with 2021 offensive guard Geno VanDeMark out of New Jersey.
College football was sent reeling Tuesday as the Big Ten was the first of the Power Five conferences to postpone the 2020 season with hopes of being able to return to the field in the spring.
The Big Ten Conference has officially voted to cancel all sports for the upcoming fall semester amid COVID-19 concerns.
Michigan State senior right tackle Jordan Reid announced via Twitter that he would be opting-out of the 2020 season, citing COVID-19 concerns. Reid also said that he will returning next year as a fifth-year senior after earning his degree this December.
The start of the Mel Tucker era has been "very unique” according to the man himself. Other than watching some tape from prior games and some workouts, Tucker hasn’t seen a football in the hand of any of his players as fall camp is finally set to begin on Friday, Aug. 7. With a month to go until the first scheduled game in the upcoming conference-only season, there’s only one goal for Michigan State football.
The Big Ten is attempting to piece together an altered college football season in the midst of a global pandemic, and for the first time, there is a plan in place.
Hours after the Big Ten released the 2020 conference-only season schedule, Michigan State's starting defensive tackle Jacub Panasiuk announced via Twitter that he would be opting out of the 2020 season.
The effort to make fall college sports a reality continues as a group of more than 1,000 Big Ten football players have released a proposal in the Players Tribune named “#BigTenUnited” asking for more “common-sense” COVID-19 safety protocols, economic assistance, and accountability measures.
The Big Ten has released its plan and schedule for the upcoming football season that will include 10 games versus six division opponents and four outside-the-division opponents.
After shutting down voluntary practices when one football staff member tested positive for COVID-19, another football staff member has tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, which led the football program to ask all members of the football team to quarantine or isolate for the next two weeks.