Joel Klatt weighs in on Mel Tucker, LSU head coaching search

Joel Klatt of Fox Sports joined the ‘The Herd’ with Collin Cowherd to discuss plenty of topics including the situation at LSU. While Cowherd emphatically stated that he believed Jimbo Fisher wouldn’t leave, Klatt wasn’t impressed.

“Don’t listen to head coaches,” Klatt said in response to Jimbo Fisher’s press conference. While what he said rings true, head coaches will sit at a press conference and promise not to leave, only to turn around and then leave.

Fisher said he wouldn’t leave Florida State for Georgia or anywhere else back in 2015, by the end of the 2017 season he was the head coach of Texas A&M.

Mel Tucker stated he wouldn’t leave Colorado, he left for Michigan State.

Not four days after this tweet, Mel Tucker was announced as the new head coach of the Michigan State Spartans.

When it comes to head coaches as Klatt says, they will take the best offer for them and we shouldn’t “begrudge” them. Tucker is certainly viewed as one of the top choices for the job, Klatt questions if he would leave for LSU.

“Mel [Tucker] has SEC ties right,” Klatt said. “This is where his nature is. He cut his teeth under Saban and then he was with Kirby at Georgia. There is a lot there.” He continued, “Mel has done a great job this year, and he did it in a year that no one really expected Michigan State to be good because he had to do this with string and bandages.

“Lots of transfers in. Kenneth Walker is one of those transfers, gets there in December, and is the nation’s leading rusher. But it’s that presence and toughness that you’re talking about that was starting to help Colorado become a tougher team. And then he goes to Michigan State, he’s done that there.”

The one thing that Klatt has questioned about Tucker is winning. “We haven’t really seen him win as a head coach. He’s doing it now and we’ll see how this November winds up.”

The Spartans and Tucker will get their chance to prove their worth with games against No. 6 Michigan on Oct. 30, No. 5 Ohio State on Nov. 20, and finish the season with No. 8 Penn State. That could go a long way in him proving that he is worth being connected to the LSU job, which I think can all agree is a better job. Not a slight against Michigan State, just how it is viewed in the college football hierarchy.

You can listen to the full interview below: