Feb. 12 (UPI) — Michigan State is planning to hire Mel Tucker as their next football coach. Sources told The Athletic, the Detroit Free Press and 247 Sports Wednesday that the school reached an agreement to hire away Tucker from the University of Colorado. The addition of Tucker ends the Spartans’ high-profile search to replace longtime coach Mark Dantonio, who abruptly resigned Feb. 4. Sources told The Athletic Tucker is expected to receive an annual salary of more than $5 million. Tucker, 48, has one season of college football head coaching experience, a 5-7 campaign at Colorado last season. He spent the 2015 season as an assistant head coach and defensive backs coach at Alabama. He was the defensive coordinator at Georgia from 2016 through 2018. Tucker also spent more than a decade in the NFL as a defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars…
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