The much-anticipated postseason review of Auburn head coach Tommy Tuberville by athletic director Jay Gogue and school president Dr. Jay Gogue will take place sometime this week. When? Nobody's saying. But at it, they will decide whether Tuberville returns for an 11th season on the Plains.

He made his pitch to return following Saturday's 36-0 loss to Alabama.

"If I didn’t think I could do it, I would be the first one to tell the Auburn people," Tuberville said. "After 10 years, I’m still fairly young, and it’s hard to take what we went through this year, but sometimes it makes you even hungrier to go through something like this. We might have needed a setback. We might have needed a readjustment, because we’ve been awfully good for a long time."

The meeting won't take place immediately. Tuberville has said he'll be out recruiting today and Monday but be back in Auburn on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Players were unanimous in showing their support for Tuberville. Center Jason Bosley called the speculation about Tuberville's job "stupid" and "ridiculous."

"I don’t know where it comes from," Bosley said of the rumors. "I mean, when you’re in adversity, the cream of the crop rises to the top and so do the turds. That’s just the way it is. And people start pointing fingers real quick and it’s easy to point fingers at the head coach, but it shouldn’t even be a topic of discussion right now."

One condition for Tuberville's might be that he has to clean house on the offensive side of the ball, hiring a new coaching staff. But he defended the offensive coaches Saturday night, taking the full weight of the blame for Auburn's first sub-.500 season since 1999.

"I put them in a bind," said Tuberville, referring to the Tony Franklin fiasco. "Everybody’s pointing fingers at them. ‘They’re not getting it done.’ I’m the one who put them in that situation. I’m the one who put their back to the wall. I thought the offensive staff did an excellent job overnight doing something to even give ourselves a chance. There were several games where we had a chance to win and we didn't. We were in most of them. I just want to say that those guys really worked hard, did the best they could do in the circumstances, they worked long hours. They'll take a lot of hits for all this but the buck stops with me. I'm the one that put them in that situation."

Tuberville has said he wants to have an offensive coordinator in place by the beginning of January and does not seem in much of a rush to make a hire before that. He said his list of a dozen or so candidates mostly consists of coaches on teams who are going to bowl games and that he didn't want to disrupt their seasons.

In the short-term, there's been no move to alter the coaching staff.

"I'm getting on the road tomorrow (recruiting)," said Steve Ensminger, who served as the de facto offesnive coordinator once Franklin was fired. "I don't know. I guess they'll tell us something."

Defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads, while not under fire like the offensive staff, had an interesting take on the coaching profession as a whole.

"We entered into the profession," Rhoads said. "I came upon it honestly. I grew up the son of a coach. I was sitting on my mom's lap as a baby and a pumpkin came through smashing through a window, so I know what it feels like to be a coach and a coach's son and I've grown up with that. You don't even worry about that, you don't even listen to it. We've got to go recruit tomorrow. We're going to go out and talk about Auburn and talk about 2009 and how special we've got a chance to be. We'll do what we always do, go back to work."