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Seven high school football prospects announce offers from Michigan State

Michigan State had seven high school football recruiting prospects announce offers on Monday.

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This wasn’t just a big day for Michigan State Football when it comes to the NFL Free Agency period. It was also a momentous day for Mel Tucker’s recruiting efforts as six different recruits announced scholarship offers from MSU on Monday.

Of the recruiting prospects who received scholarship offers, five are in the 2021 recruiting class and two are for 2022. They are:

You can check out their tweets making the announcements below:

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Former Michigan State OL Jack Conklin signs 3-year deal with Cleveland Browns

Former Michigan State great Jack Conklin has signed a lucrative 3-year deal with the Cleveland Browns.

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The COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak has brought most of the global society to a halt… but not NFL free agency, which has been off to a fast start with a busy Monday that has kept sports fandom entertained. One former Michigan State offensive lineman, Jack Conklin, had a very fruitful Monday, signing a 3-year, $42-million deal with the Cleveland Browns with $30-million guaranteed.

Conklin, who is 25 years old, was drafted by the Tennessee Titans with the 8th overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. He had left Michigan State early after his junior year due to high demand at the professional level, and that bet he made on himself has paid off in spades.

Conklin made First-Team All-Pro back in the rookie season and has been a very solid offensive tackle for the Titans since then. Conklin will cash out on this short, but lucrative deal and then head back into free agency at the ripe young age of 28.

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NFL Draft to proceed as scheduled despite COVID-19 pandemic, public NFL Draft events canceled

Michigan State fans hoping to see names like Josiah Scott get drafted will still have that opportunity from April 23-25.

For those Michigan State Football fans who were still hoping to watch Spartan greats like Josiah Scott, Kenny Willekes, and Raequan Williams land in a new home via the NFL Draft in April, you are in luck. The NFL announced today that the NFL Draft will still take place as planned from April 23-25, although the format and broadcast could be seeing some changes due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.

All the public NFL Draft events that were planned to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada will now be canceled. The NFL says that they are exploring ‘innovative options’ for how the process will be conducted so don’t be shocked if all we see of players is through a live video feed.

Michigan State had seven players participate in the NFL Combine this year. They are:

  • Joe Bachie
  • Brian Lewerke
  • Raequan Williams
  • Cody White
  • Darrell Stewart Jr.
  • Josiah Scott
  • Kenny Willekes

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Michigan State Football offers 2021 3-star safety Jaden Slocum

MSU and Mel Tucker have offered a 3-star safety out of Georgia in Jaden Slocum.

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Michigan State Football head coach Mel Tucker has not wasted any time in recruiting despite a global crisis. On Saturday, 3-star 2021 safety Jaden Slocum out Alpharetta, Georgia announced that he has received an offer from the Spartans.

Slocum is the No. 37 ranked player in the state of Georgia in the 2021 recruiting class according to the 247sports composite rankings. He is also the No. 23 ranked safety in that class according to those same rankings. Slocum has offers from some major programs such as Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Tucker had already offered Slocum a scholarship back at Colorado, we have seen Tucker offer a number of players scholarships to MSU that he had already offered while at his old position.

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Former North Carolina TE Jack Tabb joins Michigan State Football as Assistant Wide Receivers Coach

Michigan State has added former North Carolina tight end Jack Tabb as their new assistant wide receivers coach under Courtney Hawkins.

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Michigan State Football has a new head coach in Mel Tucker, and he recently completed his coaching staff, but those coaches are still adding assistants under them. The latest addition to the coaching staff announced his new position today on Twitter in former North Carolina tight end Jack Tabb. Tabb will be working under Courtney Hawkins as an Assistant Wide Receivers Coach.

Tabb was recently working as a graduate assistant with North Texas. Before that, he had a brief tryout stint with the New Orleans Saints that concluded in 2016.

Tabb was a 3-star prospect when he graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School in New Jersey back in 2011. He spent four years with the Tarheels where he totaled 534 yards in receiving yards and scored 5 touchdowns over the course of his career.

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Michigan State Football offers 2021 3-star OLB Aidan Hubbard from Cleveland, Ohio

Michigan State Football has offered a 3-star outside linebacker out of St. Ignatius high school in Cleveland.

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The NCAA suspended all on and off-campus recruiting today due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, but not before Michigan State Football and new head coach Mel Tucker were able to get off a few more scholarship offers. We already covered the offer they sent to 3-star defensive end Hammond Russell. Two hours after that offer was revealed, Aidan Hubbard, the 3-star outside linebacker out of St. Ignatius High School, announced on Twitter that he also received an offer from the Spartans.

Hubbard is the No. 42 ranked outside linebacker according to 247sports’ composite rankings. They also have him ranked as the No. 23 ranked player in the state of Ohio which puts him 3 spots ahead of Hammond Russell.

Hubbard has offers from a number of Big Ten schools including Minnesota, Northwestern, and Purdue. Wisconsin also has an interest in the outside linebacker.

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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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Michigan State Spring Football practices, Pro Day not yet canceled due to COVID-19

Michigan State has not yet canceled their Spring Football practices or NFL Pro Day due to Coronavirus concerns.

In perhaps some of the most shocking and eye-opening news in recent sports history, the NCAA Tournament and Men’s and Women’s Conference Basketball Tournaments have all been canceled due to rising concerns over the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. While those basketball events are now off the board, along with all Big Ten athletic competitions, the Michigan State Football program has not yet announced a cancellation of their Spring Football practices or Pro Day which are still scheduled for next week. A representative of the football program has called the situation “fluid.”

The news was reported by Chris Solari of the Detroit Free Press and Matt Wenzel of Mlive.com.

While it may seem insignificant to postpone or cancel these events, the Pro Day is still highly important for fringe NFL prospects looking for a chance to impress NFL teams. MSU tight end Matt Seybert took to Twitter to advocate for Michigan State to continue holding the event:

Spring Football practices are scheduled to start on Tuesday next week while the Pro Day is scheduled for Wednesday.

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Every allegation Curtis Blackwell has made against Mark Dantonio and MSU Football

With two new allegations this week, we compiled every accusation Curtis Blackwell has made against MSU and Mark Dantonio.

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With the introduction of two new accusations this week that Mark Dantonio had made MSU Football staff members record other teams’ practices without consent and to also contact players at other schools about transferring to Michigan State, we have yet another chapter of the Curtis Blackwell lawsuit and his subsequent claims of NCAA misconduct committed by Michigan State under Dantonio.

Here is a record of every allegation the former director of college advancement Blackwell has made against Michigan State and Mark Dantonio:

  • According to Blackwell, Mark Dantonio instructed staff members to record an opposing team’s practices without their knowledge.
  • Blackwell accused Dantonio of reaching out to players who were already enrolled at other universities to try and recruit them to the Spartans.
  • Blackwell says that Dantonio brought Blackwell with him to the home of top recruit Daelin Hayes although Blackwell wasn’t designated by the NCAA to attend the home visit. Blackwell also said that Dantonio helped find jobs for Hayes’ family.
  • Title IX violations in the recruit of Auston Robertson, who was convicted of sexual assault in April of 2017.
  • Blackwell also claimed that Mark Dantonio fired him because of his race.
  • Finally, Blackwell claimed that Mark Dantonio, athletic director Bill Beekman, former AD Mark Hollis, and former MSU president Lou Anna K. Simon all made false statements meant to defame him.

Michigan State AD Bill Beekman called the claims “patently false” in a February 4 press conference after Mark Dantonio resigned.

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Michigan State Football offers highly touted 2022 prospect DT Tyler Booker

Michigan State has offered Tyler Booker, a 2022 DT prospect out of IMG Academy who has offers from top programs around the country.

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Ever since Mel Tucker took over as the new head coach of Michigan State Football, they have been throwing their hat into the ring for a number of top prospects around the country. The latest recruiting prospect to receive an offer? 2022 defensive tackle Tyler Booker out of IMG Academy, one of the top prep schools in the country for high school football.

The 6’4″, 290 pound Booker has scholarship offers from some of the top programs in the country like Florida, Georgia, LSU, and Michigan. Tucker, who has been known as a strong recruiter from his days at Ohio State, Alabama, and Georgia, clearly has no fear of going up against some of the big boys when sending out his scholarship offers. It’ll be interesting to see if Tucker can swing a couple big-name recruits away from some of the highest-profile teams in the SEC and Big Ten.

Here is Booker’s announcement of the offer, which he revealed on Twitter:

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