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Report: Michigan State football assistant Ron Burton staying with Mel Tucker's new staff

Mel Tucker spent 2019 as head coach at Colorado, where he went 5-7, after three seasons as Georgia defensive coordinator. Detroit Free Press

EAST LANSING — Mel Tucker’s Michigan State football staff is coming together. And it will retain at least one familiar face.

Ron Burton, an assistant for Mark Dantonio since 2013, appears to have changed his mind and will remain with the Spartans. The Indianapolis Star reported earlier this week that Burton was heading across the Big Ten East to Indiana, but he has since informed Hoosiers coach Tom Allen he plans to stay on with Tucker at MSU.