It might be a meh hire, but stop downplaying what mel tucker has done this year

I understand most of you don't follow big ten closely.

To summarize: mark dantonio left msu in arguably worse shape than the program he inherited. recruiting had fallen off a cliff. MSU was bringing in bottom 3 classes out of all big ten teams for last couple years of his time there. Mel inherited a team that wouldn't have even competed for 1st place in the MAC. that's how bad and low the talent level was. On par with rutgers and illinois.

Mel had a rough, rough first recruiting class, too. So what he did do? He pulled out all the stops in the transfer portal. Picked up castaways from places like auburn, wake forest, etc.

Nearly all of the major players on this msu team are transfer portalers.

So, when you say "msu hasn't played anyone", just remember they were supposed to be a team this year that was going to be a cupcake for 90%+ of big ten teams.


The next LSU coach is going to need to hit the portal hard to solve immediate OL needs. Mel has shown he can do well reeling in transfers. That would be a huge benefit for lsu.