Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Melvin Gene Tucker II [1] (born January 4, 1972) is an American football coach and former player. He was the head football coach at Michigan State University from 2020 to 2023. Tucker was the interim head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) for the final five games of the 2011 season .
On February 12, 2020, Mel Tucker was hired from the University of Colorado to become Michigan State's new football head coach. Tucker served as a graduate assistant at MSU from 1997 to 1998, and also had stops as Ohio State's co-defensive coordinator in 2004, assistant head coach at Alabama in 2015, as well as the defensive coordinator for ...
This win also made Mel Tucker the first Michigan State head coach to beat Michigan in his first season [54] since Nick Saban in 1995, [55] as well as only the third head coach of either program to win his first game in the rivalry as head coach in the past 75 years (the others being Saban and Bennie Oosterbaan). [56]
The 2019 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado in the Pac-12 Conference during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season.Led by first-year head coach Mel Tucker, the Buffaloes played their home games on campus at Folsom Field in Boulder and finished at 5–7 (3–6 in Pac-12, fifth in the South Division).
Mark Dantonio was born in El Paso, Texas, to Justin Dantonio and Maryan (née Sonsalla) Dantonio.He is of Italian descent (father) and Polish descent (mother). Dantonio's grandfather Frank D'antonio moved from Montenerodomo, Italy, to the United States – losing the apostrophe at Ellis Island – in 1912.
In head coach Mel Tucker's second season, Michigan State finished the regular season 10–2 overall and 7–2 in Big Ten play, finishing third in the East division. It was the first 10-win season for the Spartans since 2017.
MSU did not name a starting quarterback until shortly before the start of the game when head coach Mel Tucker announced Payton Thorne would start the game. [34] Transfer running back Kenneth Walker III made a big impact for the Spartans, scoring on the first offensive play, a 75-yard touchdown run to give MSU an early 7–0 lead. Northwestern ...
The 1991 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison during the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season.They were led by second year head coach Barry Alvarez and participated as members of the Big Ten Conference.