Mel Tucker took a football coaching job last week at Michigan State. This happened, as we know, a few days after he pulled his name out of the running for the position.
This abrupt change suggested — accurately, it seems — that a sweeter second bid, for about twice what he was making at the University of Colorado, with a blimp-sized budget for hiring staffers, induced a 48-year-old man to reconsider his earlier Colorado commitment.