Tuck on the Clock: Change contract to pay Tucker $1 million per win

Spartan fans... I've had about enough in this football off-season.  It's not pretty. 

The clock is ticking, coach Tuck.  How about we make a deal for $1M per win?

QB & WR?  Thorne and Coleman.  Gone. 

Recruiting? 3 recruits... "3-star" and a #49 recruiting class.

Recent History? 5-7 season.  OT loss to Indiana.  What have you done for me lately?

2023 Preseason Hype?  Athlon put MSU #9 in the BigTen (14)... before the departure of Thorne and Coleman.  

"I'm a horesshit coach right now."  Didn't get any better. 

Street cred?  Now, his street cred has crumbled to #47 among active coaches.

What the hell is going on?

This off-season is reminiscent of John L Smith's latter years, following half-time pep-down speeches, 4th quarter collapses, poor execution at critical times, and compiling injuries.  Difference is: coach Tucker is being paid $9.5 million a year to make MSU a winner.  For 10 years.  How do you think $95 million could help the Lansing School District????  In hindsight, it would be a better use of money. 

The verdict to date:  3 out of 4 losing seasons. 5-7 (Colorado), 2-5 (at MSU, COVID), 11-2, 5-7.  The worst part, when a bowl game was on the line, at home, was the complete collapse against Indiana.
  

Let's discuss the Indiana game, from my seat... The ES was at Circa Sportsbook with a simple parlay: easy W vs Indiana (football), and a more challenging matchup with a W vs Villanova (mens basketball).   The bookie at Vegas actually had just moved from Lansing, MI, two weeks prior, and worked for 10+ years for Terry Hanks at Sundance Chevrolet.  Yeah, that Terry... horses, cheap cars, and his other reported shenanigans.  

Izzo succeded, though the team fought back a tough last-minute challenge against 'Nova.  But, the next morning, the ES headed to Circa to cash in his ticket because we were going to mop up Indiana.  It was amazing to see the huge crowd (SRO) at Circa, with about fifty 45" tvs playing different football games.  And, there was MSU, rolling over Indiana.  An MSU crowd (dwarfed by everyone rooting for Illinois to beat a slugging Michigan squad [UM won]) cheered on for 3 quarters...  until the inevitable.  Running down the clock, then rolling out that backup FG kicker in terrible weather, from the 3 yard line, a guy who has proven he can only kick straight. Miss, Indiana with the momentum rolls to an OT win.  The definition of ugly.  

I kept that damn ticket.  Gonna hang it on the wall, watch as Tucker either flies or crashes and burns.

The plane Coach Tuck is flying doesn't have history on its side.  Sure he dresses great.  Honestly, I, don't care if he shows up in overalls or in pajamas, a few more Ws are in order.  Since at MSU, Mr. T is 18-14 over three years... he has been paid $28.5 million for 18 wins and one bowl appearance. It would be simple to say he should be paid, instead, $1 million per win.  MSU would have saved $10.5 million over the last three years.   

Here's the schedule for this upcoming year, with very early projections from the ES. 

Sep 1, Cenral Michigan.  Win.
Sep 9, Richmond.  Win.  
Sep 19, Washington. Loss. 
Sep 23, Maryland.  Win.
Sep 30, @ Iowa. Loss. 
Oct 7, BYE (-). 
Oct 14, @ Rutgers. Win.
Oct 21, Michigan. Loss.
Oct 28, @ Minnesota. Loss.
Nov 4, Nebraska.  Loss (or Win).
Nov 11, @Ohio State. Loss.
Nov 18, @ Indiana.  Win (or Loss).
Nov 25, Penn State.  Loss. 

That's a 6-6 or 5-7 year Spartan fans.  At $1 million a year, MSU could save $3.5 - $4.5 million if this happened in 2023.  Let's create a different incentive and make coach Tuck work better for wins. Hell, at $1 million a pop, I'd take 9 or 10 wins this fall, wouldn't you?

FireCoachTuck.com? Same Old Spartans? Tuck impersonates the John L Smith years

Thanks for the incompetence, Mel "I wanna be just like John L Smith" Tucker

Post-Indiana, the ES doesn't know where to start, other than the obvious:  Fire Coach Tucker for the incompetence we saw on Saturday in the loss to an 0-38-when-down-by-17-at-half-since-2003 Indiana team. 

FireCoachTuck.com?  No, and that's because there's a simple reason. The ludicrous $95 million/10 year contract signed by the athletics department to hire a guy with little-to-no head coaching experience (ok, should we count one year of coaching at national power U Colorado as something?).  Problem is, two years into the fraught-ridden deal, MSU would be on the hook for the last 7 years of the contract.  Thanks to Matt Ishbia and the St. Andre guy, they agreed to pay half of the salary to hire him, but none of the salary (aka "Golden Parachute") to fire him.  So, MSU paying Tuck $66.5 million (last 7 years on contract) not to coach and sit on a sofa eating cheese puffs is a bit ridiculous.  

But, someone else should create FireCoachTuck.com to put some pressure on the staff to get them to get their head out of their arse and stop acting like John L. Smith with the "outsmarting himself" decisions, pep-down speeches, and halftime adjustment failures.  Clearly, it's not working.  Setting up for a field goal on the two-yard line with a questionable-at-best FG unit in a driving, freezing windstorm isn't exactly good coaching.  OK, Spartan fans, everyone watching, raise your hands if you were saying on the final drive "We gotta score a TD, I'm not confident in our FG unit."  Thought so, all of us felt that way... except of course, for coach Tuck.  Listen, coach, you gotta coach from 30,000 feet as much as from the field level and use your authority to make a little better decision for the team and the Spartan Nation instead of acting like this is the NFL.  Either get a new pair of glasses to see the reality on the field and make better decisions or fire guys like d-coord Scottie Hazelton who can't produce any consistent play in the defensive unit (your honor, just look at exhibit A: giving up gashing 20-to-30 yard runs to an Indiana QB after stifling nation-leading Illinois RB Chase Brown is irrational).  

It is painfully obvious that we Spartans were spoiled with Kenneth Walker III in 2021, who put the Spartans on his back and ran like wild to an impressive 11-2 record.  This year, coach Tuck followed the John L Smith stuff-the-roster-with-JUCOs script with his tapping the transfer portal ad nauseum.  Note to Tuck: it doesn't work.  You gotta recruit and develop talent, not spend your time trying to find once-in-a-lifetime lightning in a bottle.  

Unfortunately, 2022 year was the return of the "Same Old Spartans" and very much resembled an overcoached (lack of focus on fundamentals) and underperforming (losing record) transfer-filled Spartan team all year long.  This dud of a season will be the remembrance of coach Tuck's decisions which impersonated slap-yo-mamma John L. Smith (the L stood for "laughter" or "loser", your choice).  

Victory for MSU? Nope.  Same Old Spartans?  Yup.  Thanks for making MSU a laughing-stock again, the pride of averageness and incompetence, coach Tuck.  And Good Luck against Penn State, LMAO.