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Plenty of smoke MSU is going to pony up $1M per year for Vince Marrow
He’s Kentucky’s top assistant and a BFF of Tucker
Kentucky has been getting a lot of the Ohio kids MSU used to get

 

I read that MSU is going to give Tucker six million a year for assistants. There are about nine assistants on staff (I forgot the actual number). So there will be million-dollar assistants in East Lansing.

 

Perfect timing.

The ‘Big Ten killer’: Kentucky’s recruiting presence...

On a personal note, a dear friend played for Stoops at Kentucky; the stories he tells about Stoop's treatment of players is borderline criminal, IMO.

 

Source: Buffs contact Bieniemy for coaching job

 

Well. Hmmmm. This is a bit of a surprise:

Source: Michigan State football's Mel Tucker won't retain Mark Dantonio's assistants

Also leads you to believe there probably won't be many warm and jovial
reunions of the Dantonio staff in years to come. After refusing for several seasons to make any staff changes at all, Dantonio has now essentially left them all out standing in the street.

 

The offensive staff should have been left standing in the street three years ago. Dantonio was a welfare system for his friends.

 

It's just kinda amusing after it was apparently taken as a requirement that all HC candidates must have some kind of "Spartan family connection" (ie to Perles, Dantonio or Saban) and past practice that even in wholesale staff changes (esp. Daryl Rogers and John L. Smith), at least a couple guys were kept around for the transition.

Certainly for Tucker it makes sense. No familiar old shoulders to cry on if the new guy hurts your feelings.

 

Probably one of the "sticking points." I wonder how much the former assistants will be paid to keep their mouths shut. On top of the money to buy out Tucker, on top of the "retention bonus" paid to Dantonio and a lot of incoming assistants may have buyouts as well.

 

A couple of assistants already have new jobs
WR coach Terrance Samuel at UNLV and DL coach Ron Burton at Indiana

 

MSU is still in the process of negotiating settlements in some of the Larry Nassar cases. I'm sure the plaintiffs' lawyers are taking careful note of the veritable geyser of cash erupting in East Lansing.

 

Apparently after assessing the roster of available assistants,Tucker had some second thoughts about his clean sweep policy.

Coach Mike Tressel (@CoachMikeTress) on Twitter

 

or the school got in his ear and told him he had to retain a couple.