Former Colorado HC could be blackballed from coaching

Wild allegations have come to light about former Colorado football head coach Mel Tucker, who is now at Michigan State (for now at least), claiming that the ex-Buffaloes HC made unwanted advances towards a sexual assault survivor he brought to speak to the team. The allegations get more brutal, but we’ll keep it PG. The Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch believes that Tucker will be inevitably blackballed from the sport for this and that the 51-year-old has likely coached his last game at MSU or elsewhere.

“Mel Tucker has almost certainly coached his last game at Michigan State,” Coach prefaced before saying, “I don’t see any path for him to continue leading MSU’s football program. Nor should he. Not after such stupidity. Not from a position that’s supposed to be an example to young men. Not at MSU.”

Per Couch, a hearing to decide whether Tucker violated the university’s policy banning sexual harassment and exploitation is slated for October 5 and 6.

Reporter believes former Colorado football head coach incriminated himself

Couch believes Tucker sealed his own fate by admitting that his own judgment was faulty — something that, as the USA Today Reporter points out, could be used to remove Tucker from the coaching helm at MSU for cause.

“What Tucker admits is probably enough to nullify the remainder of his 10-year, $95 million contract, regardless of the decision at the October hearing,” Couch prefaced before saying, “This nugget in Tucker’s contact is the university’s way out: Tucker can be fired without being owed the remainder of the deal if he engages in ‘conduct which, in the university’s reasonable judgment, would tend to bring public disrespect, contempt or ridicule on the university.'”

Couch comes with the massive receipt from Tucker that the Spartans coach may want back in hindsight.

“I am not proud of my judgment and I am having difficulty forgiving myself for getting into this situation, but I did not engage in misconduct by any definition,” Tucker wrote to the Title IX investigator in March, according to USA Today.