It looks like Mel Tucker has hired his first new staff member at Michigan State.
Former Colorado Director of Player Personnel Geoff Martzen is seemingly joining Tucker in East Lansing if we are to believe his Twitter account.
Martzen has also changed his bio on Twitter to read “Michigan State University Football”. His location on Twitter has been update to East Lansing, MI and his background photo is now Michigan State themed.
Martzen was hired by Tucker at Colorado for the 2019 season. Prior to that he was UCLA’s Director of Player Personnel under Chip Kelly in 2018 and held the same position at Colorado State from 2015-2017.
Directors of Player Personnel play a large role in a program’s overall recruiting efforts. MSU’s Director of Player Personnel under Mark Dantonio in 2019 was Dino Folino. Folino held that job for the previous 18 seasons.
