Mel Tucker is keeping Chris Kapilovic in East Lansing and gave his offensive line coach and run game coordinator a significant raise and extension. Kapilovic inked a two-year extension through March 31, 2024 that will pay him $1 million a year, according to an amended contract obtained by MLive via a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Chris Kapilovic had plenty of time to think. With kickoff not until after 8 p.m. local time on Friday at Northwestern, the Michigan State offensive line coach and run game coordinator was racked with anxiety. Sitting around his hotel room in between meetings, he wondered how his new group would come together. “That was the longest day of my life,” Kapilovic said on Wednesday.
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When Mel Tucker hired Chris Kapilovic, he knew he would have his work cut out for him with Michigan State football. Kapilovic had a history of turning offensive lines around in short periods of time — just look what he did at Colorado — but Michigan State’s trenches had been lackluster for years. In fact, it was a big reason the Spartans’ offense struggled so much over the previous 3-4 seasons.
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Michigan State returns 15 players on the offensive line in 2021, including 10 letterwinners and eight players with multiple games of starting experience. Chris Kapilovic, who was promoted to assistant head coach in January, enters his second year mentoring the offensive line for the Spartans and also coordinates the run game.
Offensive line, run-game coordinator Chris Kapilovic likes the competition he has seen during Michigan State’s spring football practices thus far. Kapilovic believes Michigan State’s offense will be much improved in year two under Mel Tucker.
Michigan State offensive line coach and run game coordinator Chris Kapilovic has added a new title: assistant head coach. Head coach Mel Tucker announced the promotion Wednesday afternoon. The 52-year-old Kapilovic served as Tucker’s offensive line coach and run game coordinator at Colorado in 2019 and followed Tucker to East Lansing last year. Kapilovic will continue to serve as MSU’s O-line coach and run game coordinator.
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Chris Kapilovic put the onus on Michigan State football’s offensive line to get better in a hurry. The Spartans did just as the position coach asked Saturday at Michigan — with a dramatic improvement in the run game one week after failing to generate much in losing to Rutgers.
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After playing musical chairs up front throughout the 2018 season, MSU was again forced to shuffle its line far too often last season. Seven different alignments started games for MSU last season due to injury and underperformance. Chris Kapilovic comes in as a highly-regarded offensive line coach, and last year at Colorado he proved he can make an impact in just one year.
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The good news for Michigan State is it returns the bulk of its offensive linemen. Developing the group is the task of offensive line coach and run game coordinator Chris Kapilovic, who was hired by new head coach Mel Tucker.
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After another season of Michigan State’s offensive line struggling while battling injuries, there’s a fresh outlook for the group. There’s a new coach in Chris Kapilovic and the team brings back 10 offensive linemen who started at least one game last year. Developing a starting five and depth is a primary task.
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A new coaching staff faces the same dilemma Michigan State football’s previous regime struggled with for two years. How can the Spartans begin to run the ball better and produce more points on offense? Mel Tucker brought in Jay Johnson and Chris Kapilovic to try and fix what Mark Dantonio’s staff couldn’t due to extensive injuries up front in consecutive years. It will be the third straight year the Spartans will have a new offensive coordinator and different offensive line coach.
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Michigan State offensive line coach/run game coordinator Chris Kapilovic answered questions from reporters on a media teleconference on Wednesday afternoon. Kapilovic shared his philosophy on offensive line play, his initial thoughts on the Spartan offensive line, and his relationship with head coach Mel Tucker.
One of the biggest areas of concern for Michigan State over the last two seasons has been along the offensive line. The Spartans have struggled to block for the run game and have battled their fair share of injury issues along the front lines. Fixing those issues up front and developing more depth will be the primary focus of new offensive line coach Chris Kapilovic.
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Mel Tucker was given $6 million to hire a staff of 10 assistant coaches, and it appears he has every intention of using all of it. Offensive line coach and run game coordinator Chris Kapilovic, the first hire by Tucker after becoming Michigan State’s head coach a little more than two weeks ago, will be paid $700,000 per year, according to his contracted obtained by The Detroit News through a Freedom of Information request.
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Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker has announced that Chris Kapilovic will be joining the Spartan staff as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator.
Chris Kapilovic turned down two lucrative opportunities to coach in the SEC earlier this winter, assuming he would stay in Boulder as Colorado’s offensive line coach. But, with the future of the Buffaloes’ football program currently in a state of limbo, he has decided to join Mel Tucker’s new staff in East Lansing.
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