We’ve been hearing it from Mel Tucker on a regular basis for the better part of the last three months.
Ever since the Big Ten made the call to play this season and Michigan State has been hitting the practice field, the first-year coach has been repeating the same message to his players, to the media, to the fans — to anyone who cares to listen.
Getting the Spartans back to the top of the Big Ten is a process, one he said he and his staff are hammering every day, trying to “cement our culture” in a program that had suddenly become nothing more than a middle-of-the-pack also-ran under Mark Dantonio’s last couple of seasons.