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11-23-2022, 02:07 PM
Michigan State paid Mel Tucker full $100,000 bonus earmarked for coach and entire staff
Michigan State coach Mel Tucker's contract stipulates he and his staff can share a six-figure bonus. Instead, Tucker received the entire $100,000.
Months after Michigan State agreed with football coach Mel Tucker on a 10-year contract set to pay him $9.5 million annually, athletics director Alan Haller awarded Tucker the entirety of a $100,000 bonus that the contract says will be paid each year to the football program and allocated among Tucker, his assistant coaches and the program?s other staff members, a document obtained by USA TODAY Sports shows.
The bonus was paid in addition to the $250,000 incentive amount that Tucker received for the team?s appearance in the Peach Bowl last December. The payment of the bowl bonus was confirmed in correspondence from the Michigan State Freedom of Information Act Office, which cited data it said had come from the athletics department.
Athletics department spokesman Matt Larson said in an email he was "respectfully declining" a request to interview Haller. Larson also said that Tucker declined to comment, and that the department and the university had no other comment on the payment to Tucker.
The provision for the $100,000 amount was carried over from Tucker?s initial contract with Michigan State, which hired him away from the University of Colorado after the 2019 season.
Michigan State coach Mel Tucker's contract stipulates he and his staff can share a six-figure bonus. Instead, Tucker received the entire $100,000.
Months after Michigan State agreed with football coach Mel Tucker on a 10-year contract set to pay him $9.5 million annually, athletics director Alan Haller awarded Tucker the entirety of a $100,000 bonus that the contract says will be paid each year to the football program and allocated among Tucker, his assistant coaches and the program?s other staff members, a document obtained by USA TODAY Sports shows.
The bonus was paid in addition to the $250,000 incentive amount that Tucker received for the team?s appearance in the Peach Bowl last December. The payment of the bowl bonus was confirmed in correspondence from the Michigan State Freedom of Information Act Office, which cited data it said had come from the athletics department.
Athletics department spokesman Matt Larson said in an email he was "respectfully declining" a request to interview Haller. Larson also said that Tucker declined to comment, and that the department and the university had no other comment on the payment to Tucker.
The provision for the $100,000 amount was carried over from Tucker?s initial contract with Michigan State, which hired him away from the University of Colorado after the 2019 season.