Michigan State football: Stop worrying about Mel Tucker’s money

There seems to be a new trend developing in regard to Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker and his contract. And it’s concerning.

According to a report on Wednesday from USA Today, Tucker received a bonus this past offseason stemming from his 11-win season and New Year’s Six win. It was an annual bonus that Alan Haller gets to allocate by himself and he can consult the head coach but he has the final say. The $100,000 bonus

Haller chose to award the entire bonus to Tucker instead of splitting it among his staff and the program.

Apparently, the media considered this to be a big deal and painted Tucker as the bad, greedy guy who makes a ton of money already and doesn’t want to do his staff any favors.

And it’s none of their business.

The media is going after the Michigan State football coach

Rival fans and the media have been absolutely torching Tucker on social media all day and, honestly, it’s unwarranted. If your boss has the option of giving you a bonus or splitting it 50 ways (there are 50 MSU football staffers), you’d probably have no issue with it.

Tucker is already making sure all of these staffers get paid handsomely, so I doubt an extra $2,000 is going to make or break them. But also, who cares? Why is the media so pressed over this?

Doing a FOIA request to see that Tucker got a bonus and didn’t share it with his staff even though it was directly given to him is just wild. No one should be worried about another person’s money.

Sure, it’s fair to say a coach is overpaid or underpaid, but to go as far as to call him greedy for getting a bonus from his boss is out of pocket.

Enough worrying about the man’s money and let him live.