Mel Tucker

Michigan State has announced it intends to terminate the contract of head football coach Mel Tucker Jr. for cause, and says that an ongoing sexual harassment investigation will continue.

Michigan State is looking into the source of a leak that led to Brenda Tracy’s identity being revealed as part of an investigation into her allegations that suspended football coach Mel Tucker sexually harassed her.

On the latest episode of Big Ten Country, Graham Couch from the Lansing State Journal joins James Neveau and Kenneth Davis to discuss the latest surrounding Mel Tucker’s suspension. Couch talks about why he thinks Mel Tucker will “never coach again”

Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker said Monday that allegations of sexual harassment against him are “completely false” and the intimate phone call he had with activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy is outside the scope of both Title IX and school policy.

It was announced on Sunday evening that Michigan State will suspend head coach Mel Tucker without pay amid an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct.