Athletic director Jay Jacobs sounded weary on Tiger Talk, a weekly call-in radio show Thursday night, answering the same questions he had for about the 100th time.

There were a few interesting things he added to the discussion that weren't really brought up before:

• On Tuesday, Tommy Tuberville presented Jacobs with some ideas for an offensive coordinator. Here's Jacobs' take of that discussion: "When he got through with that, he said, 'What do you want me to do?' I said, 'I want you to do whatever you think is best.' I was thinking he was thinking about the coordinators. I didn't know. He said, 'Ten years is a long time.' He said he would talk to (his wife) Suzanne and think about it. He came back yesterday and said he thought the best thing for him and his family was to resign."

• Jacobs met with Auburn's players Thursday evening. Strength and conditioning coach Kevin Yoxall led the meeting. "What a great group of guys," Jacobs commented. Jacobs said some players asked what they could do to help out recruiting.

• Jacobs said this about who he will eventually hire to be the new coach: "We know what he's going to look like. We just don't know his name."

• He said he keeps a list of coaching candidates for every sport, not just football. When things went down Wednesday, he contacted Bill Carr of CARR Sports Associates, Inc., a Florida-based firm that consults on coaching searches. Carr told Jacobs, "I already heard." Jacobs, who used Carr's services during the search for a baseball coach last spring, responded, "Go to work."