Mel Tucker has a new item to address on his offseason checklist. The Michigan State coach coming off his first season leading the program needs to find a replacement for safeties coach Mike Tressel. Tucker on Thursday confirmed previous reports that Tressel is being hired as Cincinnati’s new defensive coordinator as one change he has to make in his staff of assistants.
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“We’ve got one position to fill,” Tucker said on Thursday afternoon during the “AD Lunch Series” virtual broadcast with Michigan State athletic director Bill Beekman. “As you know, Mike Tressel moved on to the University of Cincinnati as a defensive coordinator. So, we’re looking to hire a defensive backs coach to either coach corners or safeties. We’ll probably have that wrapped up by this weekend.”
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Mel Tucker appears to be about to lose his first assistant coach — one of the key bridges from the Mark Dantonio era. Mike Tressel, a former Michigan State football defensive coordinator who coached safeties this season in Tucker’s first year, reportedly will become the new defensive coordinator at Cincinnati, Yahoo! Sports reported on Monday. A message with MSU was not immediately returned.
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When it comes to building a great defense, Mike Tressel knows what he’s talking about. For 13 seasons, Tressel was an integral part of Michigan State’s defensive staff, leading the linebackers for the bulk of that time while also serving as co-defensive coordinator for three seasons and as sole coordinator the past two seasons.
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Safeties coach Mike Tressel is 1 of 4 Michigan State coaches (including Mel Tucker) who recently served as a defensive coordinator.
“There’s certainly a brotherhood and a great working relationship, and a great love between coach Burton, myself, coach Barnett and some of the other auxiliary staff that is still around,” Tressel said.
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There’s wasn’t a whole lot of convincing necessary for Mike Tressel and Ron Burton to stick around. Both had been a part of Mark Dantonio’s staff at Michigan State during one of the most successful runs in program history and neither was inclined to leave, even after Dantonio announced his retirement in February after 13 seasons.
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Michigan State safeties coach Mike Tressel answered questions from reporters on a media teleconference on Wednesday afternoon. Tressel talked about his transition to coaching safeties, his relationship working with cornerbacks coach Harlon Barnett, and why he’s excited about being on head coach Mel Tucker’s staff.
Mel Tucker’s staff at Michigan State will have at least a couple of familiar faces. The Spartans announced on Saturday that defensive assistants Mike Tressel and Ron Burton would be back as part of Tucker’s staff.
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The Spartans returned eight starters from a veteran group that was one of the best in the nation while losing cornerback Justin Layne and safety Khari Willis to the NFL draft and graduating Andrew Dowell, a three-year starter at weak-side linebacker. However, the production has dropped off and defensive coordinator Mike Tressel noted a different shift from last year.
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Will Tieman host the show, and defensive coordinator Mike Tressel fills in for Coach D. This week’s player guest are freshmen Michael Dowell and Chase Kline.
With Michigan State on the verge of opening the season, defensive coordinator Mike Tressel said he was tired of talking about last year. “It is irrelevant because if you think, at all, even for a second, that what we’ve done in the past has any impact on what (we’ll do) in the future,” he said in mid-August, “then we don’t have the right mindset.”
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“At the end of the first half,” Tressel says without hesitation. “We have a third-down stop and get a late hit on the quarterback. We give them an extra set of downs, and have two more pass interference penalties on the top of that. So multiple penalties in the same drive result in points.”
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“Mike has grown immensely,” Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said on Thursday afternoon at Big Ten media days in Chicago. “Mike is as good a coordinator as we’ve had – attention to detail – and we’ve had great ones, so it’s not to take away from anybody. But, the excellence that is existing right now on the defensive side of the ball is an indication of that.”
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Brad Salem got a promotion, and along with it, he’s getting a pretty good bump in his paycheck. After coaching quarterbacks for the past six seasons, the Michigan State assistant was promoted to offensive coordinator in January by head coach Mark Dantonio, who shuffled his staff in an effort to breathe some life into an offense that ranked as one of the worst in the nation.
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Assistant head coach/defensive coordinator Mike Tressel and offensive coordinator/running backs coach Brad Salem met with the media following Tuesday’s practice to talk about how the Spartans have looked so far this spring.
Mike Tressel fills in for Coach Dantonio as they talk about the upcoming bowl game against Oregon. Student Athlete guests: Jr LB Tyriq Thompson and DR DT Gerald Owens
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Michigan State assistant coaches Mike Tressel and Terrence Samuel spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon, to review the Spartans’ 26-6 loss to No. 8 Ohio State and preview this week’s game, when Michigan State heads to Nebraska to face the Cornhuskers on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 12 p.m. ET/11 a.m. CT in Memorial Stadium.
Michigan State assistant coaches Dave Warner and Mike Tressel spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon, to review the Spartans’ 31-20 win over Central Michigan, and preview this Saturday’s game as No. 20/19 Michigan State hosts Northwestern on Saturday, Oct. 6 at noon in Spartan Stadium in MSU’s 103rd Homecoming game. The contest will be televised on FS1.
“First of all, on game day itself, I allow our coordinators to make these decisions,” Dantonio said. “Now, I’m gonna always enter my opinions — maybe after the fact, before the fact, well before the fact — but I’m not gonna disrupt play-calling. I think we get the play in fast, that’s as important as anything. Give our players time to digest what’s being called. It’s very difficult. Everybody across the nation is making these decisions in 20 to 30 seconds. Some work, some don’t. A lot of that depends on execution, repetition and then what’s the defense being able to do.”
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