4. Mel Tucker, Michigan State head coach
Why Mel Tucker will be the next head coach at LSU: Let’s see … did LSU have any success in the past getting a head coach from Michigan State?
And that’s the last time Mel Tucker and Nick Saban are in any sort of conversation together, at least for a little while.
However, when it comes to personality, the ability to quickly fire up a base, and the talent to get the players in the new world of the transfer portal to rock right away, Tucker has quickly turned Michigan State into a player in the Big Ten race.
Kenneth Walker has become one of the nation’s top running backs, and without the normal level of four-and-five star talent, he and his staff are putting together an amazing year.
Give this guy the LSU recruiting machine to work with, and that running game that showed up against Florida would likely be a regular thing.
He’s going to be the hot name at a lot of big openings very soon, but …
Why Mel Tucker won’t be the next head coach at LSU: Let’s do a little roll slowing here.
Yeah, Michigan State is 7-0, but as you’re probably reading this, it hasn’t faced Michigan, Ohio State, or Penn State, and there’s a solid chance the team has yet to face anyone who’ll go bowling.
Again with the theme here, it’s LSU. It’s going to want a national title-level coach, and Tucker is just 14-12 so far. But if his Spartans win a few of those big games, he’s going to be deep in the mix for one of the huge gigs.