Tag: Mike Tressel

Five potential names to consider for defensive coordinator

Could one of these coordinators get the call from Brian Kelly?

The clock is ticking on Brian Kelly to finalize his staff and get to work on the 2022 recruiting class and beyond.

The names we heard for both offensive and defensive coordinators both decided to stay in South Bend with the Fighting Irish. This isn’t unheard of, when Nick Saban left for LSU none of his coordinators followed him to Baton Rouge. I think he did alright for himself.

The names outside of Marcus Freeman that will be discussed at defensive coordinator include current Texas A&M DC Mike Elko. He has a history with Brian Kelly from his time at Notre Dame. It might be a long shot to see him leave the Aggies but as we know, money talks.

Here are five names to consider.

Former Michigan State LB Devin Hightower to reunite with former DC Mike Tressel in Cincinnati

Devin Hightower will reunite with former Michigan State defensive coordinator Mike Tressel in Cincinnati.

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A few weeks back, Michigan State football 2020 recruit Devin Hightower entered the NCAA transfer portal. On Monday, he announced his new home: Cincinnati. Hightower will reunite with former MSU defensive coordinator Mike Tressel, who is now the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Cincinnati.

Hightower only played special teams snaps last year under Mel Tucker. The former three-star recruit out of Twinsburg, Ohio was the sixth member of the 2020 recruiting class to enter the portal as Mel Tucker continues to put his own stamp on the roster.

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Mel Tucker: Tressel is heading to Cincy, looking to hire replacement by ‘this weekend’

Mel Tucker has confirmed reports from earlier this week that longtime assistant coach Mike Tressel is leaving the program.

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Michigan State football head coach Mel Tucker has confirmed reports from earlier this week that longtime assistant coach Mike Tressel is leaving the program to become the defensive coordinator at Cincinnati.

Tucker made this announcement on Thursday afternoon during the AD Lunch Series, according to Matt Wenzel of MLive. Tucker also pointed out that a replacement for Tressel — who coached safeties this past season — should be “wrapped up by this weekend.”

Tressel came to Michigan State with former Spartans’ head coach Mark Dantonio in 2007, and has been with the program ever since. He has held numerous roles, previously also serving as defensive coordinator.

Tressel was one of the few Dantonio assistant coaches that remained on staff after Tucker took over last year.

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Mel Tucker: Tressel is heading to Cincy, looking to hire replacement by ‘this weekend’

Mel Tucker has confirmed reports from earlier this week that longtime assistant coach Mike Tressel is leaving the program.

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Michigan State football head coach Mel Tucker has confirmed reports from earlier this week that longtime assistant coach Mike Tressel is leaving the program to become the defensive coordinator at Cincinnati.

Tucker made this announcement on Thursday afternoon during the AD Lunch Series, according to Matt Wenzel of MLive. Tucker also pointed out that a replacement for Tressel — who coached safeties this past season — should be “wrapped up by this weekend.”

Tressel came to Michigan State with former Spartans’ head coach Mark Dantonio in 2007, and has been with the program ever since. He has held numerous roles, previously also serving as defensive coordinator.

Tressel was one of the few Dantonio assistant coaches that remained on staff after Tucker took over last year.

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Report: Longtime MSU assistant coach Mike Tressel heading to Cincinnati

Longtime Michigan State assistant coach Mike Tressel is reportedly heading to Cincinnati to become the Bearcats’ new defensive coordinator.

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Longtime Michigan State assistant coach Mike Tressel is reportedly heading to Cincinnati to become the Bearcats’ new defensive coordinator.

Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports tweeted the Tressel news on Monday afternoon. Tressel came to Michigan State from Cincinnati with former head coach Mark Dantonio in 2007, and has been with the program ever since.

Tressel was one of the few former Dantonio assistant coaches that remained on staff after new head coach Mel Tucker took over this past year. Tressel coached the safeties in 2020, and had previously served as a linebackers coach and defensive coordinator while at Michigan State.

Tressel had previously worked with Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell at Ohio State in the early 2000s, according to Thamel.

Tressel will be the first assistant coach to leave the program since Tucker took over as the head coach last February.

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Here is what every Michigan State Football coach will be making in 2020

Mel Tucker’s first staff at Michigan State is now finalized. Here is what they will be making in 2020.

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When Michigan State Football hired their new head coach in Mel Tucker, not only did they give him a very competitive salary, they also agreed to give him a $6 million salary pool to hire his staff. Today, media members, including Chris Solari of the Detroit Free Press, were given access to the salaries of every MSU coach on Tucker’s staff, and we rounded those salaries up below:

According to Chris Solari, the Spartans have used $5,844,385 of Tucker’s allotted salary pool. The interesting thing for me is Tressel’s salary. Tucker is using a not-insignificant amount of his salary pool to keep Tressel at the salary he made last year as the defensive coordinator.

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Former MSU Football defensive coordinator Mike Tressel moving to Safety Coach under Mel Tucker

Michigan State’s former defensive coordinator Mike Tressel is moving over to the Safety Coach position under Mel Tucker.

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The final domino of the Mel Tucker administration at Michigan State is now complete. In a video released on the MSU Football Twitter account, former Spartans defensive coordinator Mike Tressel revealed that he will be moving over to a role as a position coach to work with the Safety position at MSU.

It was announced back in February that Tressel would be remaining with the team in an unspecified role. With this announcement, we now have the complete picture of Tucker’s staff for his first season with the Spartans.

It will be interesting to learn more about Tressel’s role, as Harlon Barnett will also certainly be spending some time with the Safeties as the Defensive Backs Coach for Michigan State.

We will continue to cover more about Tressel’s new role as information is released.

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MSU Football coach Mel Tucker retains assistants Ron Burton & Mike Tressel

Michigan State Football coach Mel Tucker will retain two assistants from the Dantonio era in Mike Tressel & Ron Burton. Read more here.

Michigan State Football coach Mel Tucker is putting together his new staff of coaches. Tucker plans on retaining two assistants from the Dantonio era in Mike Tressel and Ron Burton. Burton joins the new staff as the defensive line coach whereas Tressel’s new role has yet to be determined.

Here is a tweet from Mel Tucker on this decision:

Initially, Ron Burton was heading to Indiana for a defensive line job. Obviously, this is no longer true. The retention of both Burton and Tressel helps Mel Tucker get up to speed on MSU’s personnel. Plus, Michigan State’s defense was certainly not a key issue last year.

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New Michigan State head coach Mel Tucker reportedly won’t retain any of Mark Dantonio’s staff

It’ll be a total fresh start for Michigan State football

It’s a clean sweep.

In a somewhat expected move new Michigan State head coach Mel Tucker will not be retaining any staff members from the Mark Dantonio regime. That is according to a report from Chris Solari of the Detroit Free Press.

Tucker reportedly met with the remaining staff members at some point Thursday. A few long-time Dantonio assistants had already moved on. Strength and conditioning Coach Ken Mannie announced his retirement on Twitter Thursday morning. Former defensive line coach Ron Burton agreed to join the Indiana staff on Wednesday. And former wide receivers/assistant defensive backs coach Terrance Samuel took the wide receivers and passing game coordinator job at UNLV. Former co-offensive coordinator and Jim Bollman seemingly casually retired on Twitter Thursday evening when his “bio” was changed to “former coach.”

That means, in addition to the names above, Brad Salem, Dave Warner, Mike Tressel, Chuck Bullough, Mark Staten, Paul Haynes, and Don Treadwell will no longer be part of the coaching staff at Michigan State.

Tucker’s contract with Michigan State stipulates a $6 million budget for hiring ten assistant coaches. The process of filling those spots starts now. Tucker currently has a reported offer of around $1 million to Kentucky associate head coach and tight end coach Vince Marrow.

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