Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs held a press conference where he answered questions about head football coach Tommy Tuberville's resignation.Here's a quick breakdown before I get something up more substantial.
- Jacobs, Tuberville and school president Dr. Jay Gogue met Monday. Meetings between Jacobs and Tuberville continued through the week. Tuberville told him he wanted to resign Wednesday.
- The school agreed to pay Tuberville's buyout even though it was no obligated to because "I thought it was the right thing to do," Jacobs said.
- Jacobs had a 5-minute conversation with CARR Sports Associates, Inc., a firm that specializes in aiding coaching searches.
- Jacobs on the search: "We will not limit ourselves to anyone."
- No contact has been made with Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, to the best of Jacobs' knowledge.
- If Tuberville did not resign, would he still be the football coach. "Absolutely," Jacobs said. "Absolutely."
- Jacobs said, to his knowledge, no contact has been made with any coaching candidates.
- He stressed again that no university money will be used for Tuberville's buyout.
- Jacobs said he asked Tuberville three times to stay, relaying a similar message from Gogue. They met. Gogue told Tuberville if he didn't want to coach, he wanted him to still be a member o the Auburn family.
- Jacobs on Tuberville: "He's a great ambassador for Auburn."
- No mandate was given to fire any members of the coaching staff.
- Jacobs on Tuberville's plan to get the program going back in the right direction: "I said, 'Tommy, we've been visiting for two weeks and you haven't said anything about this.' And he said, 'I've been thinking about it for a long time.' He never moved forward with that plan with me.
- The 36-0 loss in the Iron Bowl didn't weigh into the decision.
- On if there is a timeline to make a hire: "We want to be efficient and as quick as we possibly can, but we’re not going to rush to judgment."
- Jacobs denied the Board of Trustees played any role in the discussions.
- Jacobs stressed the need to be competitive in the SEC and on a national scale but said that didn't affect Tuberville's situation: "Certainly, we would have liked to have gone to the SEC Championship games more but his winning percentage is like 68 percent in the last 10 years. We were very pleased with where we were competitively.
- Assistants will be paid the remainder of their six-month contracts. Coordinators will have their full 12-month contracts paid.
- Jacobs said he offered to let Tuberville out of the buyout if he wanted to take another job. Tuberville declined.
- Was there ever a time Jacobs thought Tuberville was not the man for the job? "Never a time. Monday morning in our prior conversations, I asked Tommy, 'How much longer do you want to do this?' He said five years. He said he'd like to get one of his sons through high school. Monday morning, in the conversation with the President and Tommy, I told the President, 'Tommy wants to be here five years. My goal is to get him through five years.'"
3 comments:
.....I can't wait to see the video. I want to watch Jacobs eyes when he says the BOT isn't involved, or that they didn't demand that some assistants be let go. OR, the big whopper, that the 36-0 loss to Bama wasn't a factor.
.....If that loss last Saturday didn't twist in your guts like a cold knife, you're not really an Auburn person...
Sounds like a bunch of lies to me, I think that somehow they managed to get Tuberville to go along with the "resignation" story. I don't believe it for one minute.
I don't believe Tuberville simply resigned, he was either asked to resign or he was asked to do things he didn't want to do, like fire all his coaches.
I think Auburn needs a new AD and president. Really, does anybody believe this bull?
I don't believe it one bit. I think Tuberville got screwed. You can check out more of my thoughts in my Open Letter to Auburn University at my blog.
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