AUBURN AND TUBERVILLE PART WAYS; LEACH CONTACTED?
December 3rd, 2008 ║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
After 10 years as Auburn’s head coach, Tommy Tuberville is finished on The Plains.
It’s not clear yet whether or not Tuberville was fired or resigned. Either way, you can expect him to get a really big severance package. Really big.
Tubs was 85-40 in 10 years at Auburn. His team went 13-0 in 2004. His record against the other Big Six schools in the SEC (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee) was better than any other coach in the conference.
Saturday’s 36-0 loss to Alabama and Nick Saban ended a six-year winning streak against the Tide, the longest win streak in Auburn history.
An unofficial Auburn rep has reached out to people close to Arkansas’ Bobby Petrino (Jetgate II, anyone?) and Texas Tech’s Mike Leach.
Leach is reportedly in the midst of negotiations with Tech after visiting with Washington officials on Monday. Petrino just finished his first year in Fayetteville, but anyone who thinks he’s not in play hasn’t seen the guy’s resume.
It’s also been reported that those talks with the other coaches’ reps came BEFORE today’s talks with Tuberville.
So as Kevin Scarbinsky guessed earlier today (see our Auburn Football News post), AU was apparently stringing Tubs along while they checked to see if they could upgrade.
Pathetic. And though it’ll surely tick off our Auburn folks, the shoddy way AU has repeatedly treated Tuberville is the reason Auburn is still called a “Cow College” by many.
Chris Low of ESPN has a few more Tuberville stats that would lead one to think he would have been retained. But, noooooooooo.
