Just when it looked like Mel Tucker’s staff was set for the 2022 season, there is now another void to fill. Defensive line coach Ron Burton said in a post Sunday on Twitter that he was moving on from Michigan State and looking “for new opportunities.”
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Just because Ron Burton is the only Michigan State football assistant with the same job — essentially, though he now oversees the entire defensive line instead of just the tackles — as last year doesn’t mean he’s got it any easier. As Mel Tucker’s D-line coach, Burton is charged with replacing more experience and production than any other position on the team.
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“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 defensive line coach Ron Burton answered questions from reporters on a media teleconference on Wednesday afternoon. Burton shared his thoughts on working with the defensive staff, replacing three multi-year starters on the defensive line, and the emergence of senior defensive end Jacub Panasiuk as a leader in the position room.
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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As Michigan State began a new era in football this week with the hiring of Mel Tucker as its next head coach, the program is saying goodbye to one of its longest-tenured contributors. Head strength and conditioning coach Ken Mannie announced on Thursday he is retiring after 25 years at Michigan State, capping a coaching career that spanned 45 years.
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Sixth-year defensive tackles coach Ron Burton and first-year defensive ends coach Chuck Bullough have been named the FootballScoop National Defensive Line Coaches of the Year. The FootballScoop Coaches of the Year awards, presented by AstroTurf, are the only set of awards that recognize the most outstanding position coaches in college football.
Michigan State assistant coaches Terrence Samuel and Ron Burton spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon, to review the Spartans’ win at Minnesota and preview this week’s Homecoming game against Indiana.
Ron Burton spent the last four seasons coaching the Spartans’ entire defensive line but is now splitting it up with Mark Snyder. Burton has the tackles and Snyder, who coached linebackers the last two seasons, has the ends. The move was made, in part, to reduce the player-to-coach ratio.
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Ron Burton’s role changed this offseason, as the long-time defensive line coach who came to Michigan State in 2013 is now focused mostly on MSU’s defensive tackles. With former linebackers coach Mark Snyder now with the defensive ends, Burton is able to coach the interior linemen in more detail and help with more individual work now that he has fewer players in his group. And, considering the number of guys Burton expects to play on the inside this season for the Spartans, that’s probably for the best.
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Ron Burton simply refers to his hometown as the “804.” Highland Springs, a suburb of nearly 16,000 residents on the east side of Richmond, Virginia, is where Michigan State’s defensive tackles’ coach calls home. Head 80 miles west on Interstate 64 and you will run into Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia and ground zero for racial violence in America. Hundreds of protesters faced off Saturday in the college town, forcing police in riot gear to disperse crowds before the beginning of a white-nationalist rally downtown.
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Mark Dantonio stood resolute in the days after Michigan State’s 2016 season ended prematurely. He would not make any staff changes. He reassessed things, however. By April, Dantonio decided to shift some roles and responsibilities. And he believes the Spartans already are seeing the benefits of giving their young defensive ends and tackles their own mentors.
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