Comments on: Tommy Tuberville Fired!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:02:58 +0000

Ray Henderson,
Lets not talk about just the previous 6 lets talk about overall years…Bama owns Auburn in the seris…Bama owns Auburn is recruiting…Bama owns Auburn is SEC titles…Bama owns Auburn in National titles…Bama owns Auburn in Bowl games….Bama owns Auburn in Bowl victories…Bama owns Auburn in EVERYTHING…You WILL always be #2 in the state! GUESS WHAT?? this is only Saban’s 2nd year and we are going to the Sugar Bowl!! Its only gonna get worst for your tigers from here on out…Oh and by the way you said Auburn players have the highest GPA than most…well you **** sure didn’t get your education from there…you spelled Saban’s name wrong and you always said “that something to be proud of”

By: Weston

Weston — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:19:33 +0000

Oh ok, sorry. Auburn was on probation that year, but I suppose they were taken off during the season. Thanks for clearing that up for me Team Tubs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against Auburn in that argument. I always pull for Auburn when they are playing anyone besides Alabama so I would have loved to see them go to the title game. I have just been hearing that for a long time and wanted to find out what really happened. Thanks!

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:09:19 +0000

Again, just some straight talk…

This has always been a bitter rivalry, always will be.
The short term memory seems to side with the Auburn faithful. Believe me, every Bama fan knows the recent history of 6 straight losses. How could we forget with the catchy slogans, t-shirts, videos, blogs, etc…”Fear the Thumb”, and on and on. When Bama was rolling up 9 straight victories over Auburn from 1973-1981, you didn’t have all of the cutesy slogans, in your face taunting, that the Auburn faithful have exacted these last 6 years. Sure, there is always smack talk, but not near the level of recent years. The reason that Bama fans don’t run around in circles and wet themselves over beating Auburn goes back to a Coach Bryant quote to his players, “When you score a touch down or make a big play, don’t run around slinging snot, act like you’ve been there before”.
Bama has been here before, alot, and they will be here a lot more.
Ray, can you name the 13 Bama players arrested? You were quick with that stat…a little too quick.
Also, can you back up your GPA claim with facts and tell us where you got the info?
The “cow college” quote is also from the Bear, not a “silly comment”. It was based on the predominant curriculum at Auburn in those days.
The Rammer Jammer comment was mine (I’ll give you that one…but come on…”Fear the Thumb”??)

By: Team Tubs

Team Tubs — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:01:55 +0000

Weston – Auburn played in and won the Sugar Bowl in 2004, beating Virginia Tech 16-13. The reason Auburn wasn’t in the national title game that year was because of the ridiculous BCS formula that put OU in against USC instead of the Tigers. War Eagle!

By: Weston

Weston — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:44:14 +0000

Correct if I am wrong AuburnAlumni, but wasn’t Auburn on probation for the 2004 season? Isn’t that why they were not allowed to go to even a bowl game, much less the national title game? Off subject I know, but I have been hearing this complaint for the past 4 years.

By: Toni Newton

Toni Newton — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:39:28 +0000

I am a life long Alabama fan and have ridden out the hard times. My freshman year at Bama was the first of the 6 losses at Auburn and so I am glad to finally have one. However, this is some straight unbiased talk about Tuberville.

I agree Tuberville is a good man, and is a great coach if you want to have winning seasons and do well. But in 10 years Tuberville has not produced the goods, meaning a National Championship. That is what Auburn wants more than anything is a clear, defined, unquestionable National Championship. Tuberville got very close once, but for whatever reason, screwed as it was, it didn’t happen. A head coach of a football program is the head manager of an entertainment business for a University. If Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, was brought in to make an award winning product for the company and he failed to do so for 10 years except getting close once…he would be fired. The same is the business decision that fired Tuberville. This is a decision above the Iron Bowl, it is about what Auburn wants ultimately and whether or not Tuberville can deliver that in the near future. I agree with the business decision. I also hope the best of luck to Auburn in their coach hunting….I hope they get a good one that will fire up this rivalry to a level we haven’t seen in years.

I too like Steve Spurrier at Auburn even though I hate his guts….I’m with you Ray Henderson!

Roll Tide!

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:29:36 +0000

Well, Big Al, a classy comment from a typical Bama fan.

By: southernheiter

southernheiter — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:00:26 +0000

silly comment from Big Al which does no favor for fans of Alabama.

As for the other post from Alabama graduate,fact is T got fired NOT because of the last game of the season but for the entire season. Frankly, I am glad. he made too many mistakes.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:18:57 +0000

As a life-long Alabama supporter, I have always thought Tuberville to be a very good coach. In my humble opinion, he’s always had to keep an eye on two people: Pat Dye and Bobby Lowder. Even though Lowder gave the final, somewhat gentle push that moved Dye out of coaching at Auburn, those two have moved in concert since. Dye was a problem for Terry Bowden. Dye and Lowder always lurked in the shadows for Tuberville – from 2003(maybe earlier) until this very day.

Tuberville beat UA six times in a row! He rubbed our noses in it, and why not? He beat the one team everybody wanted him to beat. That seems not to be good enough.

I was 13 years old in ’69 when Alabama fans thought Coach Bryant was done. Look at what he did in the 70′s.

Tuberville is a good coach and, I believe, a good man. I hope he collects every cent of that $6 million. He deserves it. I hope he is offered a job as Head Coach at a first class institution (not insinuating that Auburn is not first class), and is very successful.

The SEC has lost a good coach and a good man. I wish him well.

By: Ray Henderson

Ray Henderson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:51:57 +0000

Alabama fans seem to have a short memory, because for the last 6 years I believe Alabama has been number 2 (and this statement has multiple meanings) in the state. You may not like Tuberville but he was more that just a good coach. He is a good man, under his leadership his players have higher grade point averages than most schools in the SEC including Alabama and overall his player don’t seem to get into the trouble that some schools seem to allow. For instance Alabama has 13 player arrested in the last 2 years under the wonderful leadership of Sabin, that something to be proud of.