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Will Michigan State’s Mel Tucker survive this scandal? As usual, his defense is suspect

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Mel Tucker coaches Michigan State in 2022.

Mel Tucker has gone and done it now.

Perpetrated the mother of all missteps.

Pulled a dark cloud over his school, Michigan State, and its football program, not to mention the entire coaching profession.

Shredded his own reputation.

Cost himself, potentially — well, almost for sure — the remaining $80 million on his contract.

And all because he couldn’t keep himself from vigorously fantasizing, let’s call it, while on the phone with a prominent advocate for ending sexual violence who speaks to college teams across the country — including Tucker’s — and is a survivor of gang rape.