After two departures left a total of three vacancies to fill, Mark Dantonio's Michigan State coaching staff is complete again.

MSU officially announced the hiring of new defensive ends coach Chuck Bullough on Thursday, as he joins fellow new additions Paul Haynes and Don Treadwell. Bullough will replace former defensive ends coach Mark Snyder, who followed Harlon Barnett to Florida State when he took the defensive coordinator job there. The Spartans had three spots to fill because the maximum number of assistant coaches allowed was increased to 10 this offseason.

Bullough, who graduated from Michigan State and was a four-year letterwinner, most recently spent two years as the the defensive line coach at Eastern Michigan, but he began his coaching career as a grad assistant on the same MSU staff as Mark Dantonio in 1997.

“We’re very excited to have Chuck Bullough back at Michigan State,” Dantonio said in a release. “He was an outstanding player here for George Perles, and the rest of his family bleeds green as well. He has a tremendous wealth of football knowledge, having played and coached in the NFL, and also coordinating at two major conference schools. He’s a front-seven coach with a very impressive resume."

Following his playing career at Michigan State, where he still holds the single-seaosn record for tackles (175), Bullough played five seasons in the NFL before moving on to coaching. After his two years as a grad assistant back at MSU, he spent five seasons with the Chicago Bears, including two years alongside current Michigan State co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Jim Bollman. He returned to the college game beginning with one season at Lake Forset College in 2004 and then a year at Western Michigan. His next job was as linebackers coach at UCLA, where he eventually served for two seasons (2009-10) as the defensive coordinator. Bullough held the same position at Syracuse for three years after a two-year stint as linebackers coach for the Cleveland Browns before going to Eastern Michigan.

“It’s definitely been a journey,” said Bullough. “I started under Coach Dantonio when I became a graduate assistant here (1997), then you go out into the profession and have a chance to coach at a lot of great places. Eventually, you want to come back home, and I’m very fortunate to be coming home to the same coach that I started with."

The Bullough name has been attached to Michigan State for more than 60 years, with Chuck's father Hank, his brother Shane and nephews Max, Riley and Bullough all having played for the Spartans. Along with his school-record 175 tackles in 1991, Chuck Bullough also posted 164 tackles as a junior the year before, and his 339 combined tackles those years are the most by any Spartan in a two-year span.

As the third and final addition to the coaching staff -- barring any coaches leaving unexpecteldly -- Bullough is the third new hire to have previous experience at Michigan State. New defensive backs coach Paul Haynes held the same title at MSU from 2003-04, and Don Treadwell, who will help Haynes in the secondary while also serving as an offensive consultant and freshman head coach, spent the first four years of Dantonio's tenure at Michigan State as offensive coordinator after coaching receivers for the Spartans from 2000-02.

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