EAST LANSING — New Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker continues to announce members of his staff, both on the field and in operations.

Earlier this week, Tucker announced that Ted Gilmore will join the Spartan offensive staff as the tight ends coach, a position formerly held by Dowagiac graduate Mark Staten, who is no longer a member of the MSU staff.

Another former Chieftain, Cody Cox, has been retained.

Cox is entering his fourth season on the full-time Spartan football staff, his first as director of football operations.

In his previous roles as the director of executive football operations (2019) and the assistant director of football operations and camp coordinator (2017-18), Cox helped coordinate the day-to-day operations of the program. Those responsibilities included planning, organizing and coordinating the annual football calendar, preseason camp, home and away team travel, training table, player guest tickets and all team-related events and functions. Cox managed the design and creation of the team rules, regulations and philosophies handbook titled “The Winner’s Manual” and was also responsible for planning and coordinating all aspects of the Michigan State summer football camps.

Cox also helped organize and coordinate all day-to-day football-related activities for former Spartan head coach Mark Dantonio and served as the football office’s liaison to the athletic communications staff.

Prior to his role as the assistant director of football operations/camp coordinator, Cox worked with the MSU football operations staff as the graduate football operations assistant from 2014-16. Before his GA role, he worked alongside the coaching staff as an offensive student assistant coach over the course of 2011-13.

Cox worked as a student worker in the video department during the 2010 season.

Cox earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2014 and his master’s in sports administration from the college of education in 2016, both from Michigan State.

Cox and his wife, Molly, are in their first year of marriage.

A 25-year coaching veteran with experience at the FBS and NFL ranks, Gilmore has developed numerous NFL players, draft picks and All-Americans during his coaching career at USC.

Gilmore, 52, arrives in East Lansing after spending the previous five seasons (2015-19) as the wide receivers coach at Wisconsin. He was also the offensive pass game coordinator his last three years in Madison.