We are excited to announce that Ted Gilmore is joining @Coach_mtucker 's offensive staff as a tight ends coach! That was after the position posted just 48 catches for 522 yards and three scores in 2017 and 2018 combined. Wisconsin’s Ted Gilmore was announced on Friday as Michigan State’s new tight ends coach. You’ll be attached as an in-line guy, you be detached. All those things that we coached 20 years ago, we’re still coaching to this day. Tommy Guajardo, a three-star prospect from Dearborn, was the lone tight end Michigan State signed in its 2020 recruiting class but wasn’t an early enrollee.Gilmore spent the last three seasons as Wisconsin’s pass game coordinator but said coach Paul Chryst was still heavily involved in the offense and had the final say. “That’s the kind of respect I have for those gentlemen.”So, why leave Wisconsin after five seasons to become Mel Tucker’s new tight ends coach at Michigan State?“I know with the guys we have in the system, when they are running routes, I am going to coach them as if they are a wide receiver,” Gilmore said. Adam Berghorst moved from defensive end to tight end and didn’t have a reception but burned his redshirt by playing five games as a true freshman. Because once again, that guy for us in this offense, and the direction we want to take it, is a critical piece in our offense. Hackett (Colorado), and Terrance Nunn and Maurice Purify (Nebraska).New Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker continues to swiftly round out his staff.In 2011, he was the nation's top receivers coach, as awarded by Football Scoop.Tucker signed a six-year contract that pays him at least $5.5 million a year, and also includes $6 million per season for his assistant coach's salaries.Tucker now has hired seven coaches, including Mike Tressel, Harlon Barnett and Ron Burton on the defensive side, and Jay Johnson (coordinator), Courtney Hawkins and Chris Kapilovic on the offense.Gilmore, 52, makes the leap from one Big Ten school to another, as he's been Wisconsin's wide receivers coach since 2015, and also its passing-game coordinator since 2017.He's also been a position coach at Southern Cal, Nebraska, Colorado Purdue, Houston, Kansas and Wyoming, and also had a three-year stint with the NFL's Oakland Raiders from 2012-14.He continues to search for a defensive coordinator.MSU announced some support-staff hires Friday: Geoff Martzen as director of player personnel, Cody Cox as director of football operations, and former MSU linebacker Darien Harris as director of player engagement.Gilmore's coaching resume dates to 1994, following a collegiate career that concluded at Wyoming.On Friday, he hired Ted Gilmore as his tight ends coach, the seventh hire since Tucker was named Mark Dantonio's successor early last week. I want to recruit kids that can run, that can bend, that got length, all those things. He views tight ends as the “MVP” of what Michigan State wants to do offensively and Gilmore will oversee developing the group.“Obviously I can’t really speak to the room right now because obviously we haven’t been able to do anything on the field but I can speak to how they go about their business,” Gilmore said.