This was news this morning, but I thought I'd at least acknowledge it now. Former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville is in Lubbock today interviewing for the vacant position at Texas Tech.The Red Raiders, as you know, fired Mike Leach last month after allegations that he mistreated a player who had suffered a concussion.
The blog's take? Tuberville would be a good hire for any school, but Texas Tech seems like an odd fit. It's an offensive school, and Tommy doesn't have the greatest track record of being an offensive mind. Ask Tony Franklin about that. Plus, despite his claims of having won in Texas before, he spent one year at Texas A&M as a defensive coordinator. Hardly a long resume.
And if the Red Raiders are thinking of going with someone with a defensive background, doesn't interim coach and defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill make more sense?
I like Tuberville as a coach and eventually making a return to the sidelines. I just don't know if this is the right place for him.
6 comments:
Good one extra! Ears is done at any level above FCS as a head coach.
Get him OUT of Auburn. Please!
Some of you have let Lowder, his cronies and the bammer press fool you.
Get out of the state of Alabama and you'll see that Tuberville is very well respected.
Most people around the country think their school would be lucky to get CTT.
He'll wind up with a good job at a BCS school somewhere. I just hope it's at a place where we don't have to play his team.
I live in Illinois and listen to Alabama talk radio occasionally, and I am always astonished at how people there talk about Tuberville. They ignore his domination of Alabama, his 13-0 season and 11-2 season, his amazing record against Top 10 teams, and on and on. He is very well respected and while I am an Auburn fan through and through and really like the new coach and staff, I will root for whichever team Tuberville ends up with in the future.
"They ignore his domination of Alabama, his 13-0 season and 11-2 season, his amazing record against Top 10 teams, and on and on."
How do they view his early season out of conference games? Also remember his "domination" of Bama was against Dumbose and Sheila. He wound up .500 against Satan (LSU/Bama combined; but was about to get run bad). I'll agree his record against Florida and Urban/Tebow was inexplicable, but other that that, 8.5 wins and 4 losses a year - sums it up. 1 SEC title in 10 years; ain't gonna cut it.
A lot of teams would take a conference title every 10 years. Texas Tech, which hasn't won one since 1994 in the Southwest Conference, is certainly one of those schools.
I don't understand the anti-Tubs sentiment that's out there. Say what you will about how his time in Auburn finished up, but he was a good coach for the vast majority of his time on the Plains. Any other interpretation is revisionist history.
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