Mel Tucker is Michigan State’s right messenger

Daugherty’s 1960s teams were college football’s first fully integrated rosters. The 1966 team played in the Game of the Century against Notre Dame before a record TV audience of 33 million. “We had 20 Black players on that 1966 national championship team,” Tucker said. “That’s part of our history. The first Black president of a major university (Clifton Wharton, 1970-78); it’s ingrained in who we are. Our players are used to having those types of discussions and so I know they’ll be open to anything I put forth with them.”

Source: Tom Shanahan Report