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this reporter thinks AU already has their coach
Posted on 12/6/08 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 12/6/08 at 4:46 pm
Jay Tate of the Montgomery Advertiser has been covering Auburn for a while now. On his blog he posted this interesting entry regarding why he thinks AU already has their coach
Hey everyone. I was pondering candidates for Auburn's vacancy today -- trying to weed out bogus information so I can refine my aim -- and something occurred to me.
If past is prologue, Auburn already has its guy and he probably hasn't yet become a celebrated candidate.
Remember 1998? Terry Bowden resigned on Oct. 23 and Tuberville was hired on Nov. 29. That's a 37-day "search." We began writing about Tuberville five days before he was hired, though, so we'll cut that down to 32 days.
One issue: We learned afterward that Auburn had secured Tuberville weeks before he was hired. Auburn handled business well ahead of time.
Remember all the names that flew around during that month? We talked about Pat Sullivan, Bobby Wallace, George O'Leary and even Mike Cavan.
I can't believe I wrote about Mike Cavan.
Remember 2003? A decision had been made to fire Tuberville before the season ended. Auburn was in suburban Louisville, Ky., securing Bobby Petrino as Tuberville's successor nearly a week before Tuberville's scheduled termination date.
Writers didn't have time to examine false leads. We never got to that point.
What can we learn?
Auburn has its next coach all but hired right now. Auburn does its homework -- even unethical homework -- when it comes to preserving the football program. If Auburn is out there pounding the pavement, knocking on doors and searching for a coach's replacement days after he left the program, well, it would be a first for this regime
Hey everyone. I was pondering candidates for Auburn's vacancy today -- trying to weed out bogus information so I can refine my aim -- and something occurred to me.
If past is prologue, Auburn already has its guy and he probably hasn't yet become a celebrated candidate.
Remember 1998? Terry Bowden resigned on Oct. 23 and Tuberville was hired on Nov. 29. That's a 37-day "search." We began writing about Tuberville five days before he was hired, though, so we'll cut that down to 32 days.
One issue: We learned afterward that Auburn had secured Tuberville weeks before he was hired. Auburn handled business well ahead of time.
Remember all the names that flew around during that month? We talked about Pat Sullivan, Bobby Wallace, George O'Leary and even Mike Cavan.
I can't believe I wrote about Mike Cavan.
Remember 2003? A decision had been made to fire Tuberville before the season ended. Auburn was in suburban Louisville, Ky., securing Bobby Petrino as Tuberville's successor nearly a week before Tuberville's scheduled termination date.
Writers didn't have time to examine false leads. We never got to that point.
What can we learn?
Auburn has its next coach all but hired right now. Auburn does its homework -- even unethical homework -- when it comes to preserving the football program. If Auburn is out there pounding the pavement, knocking on doors and searching for a coach's replacement days after he left the program, well, it would be a first for this regime
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Posted on 12/6/08 at 4:50 pm to Auburntiger
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Auburn does its homework -- even unethical homework
At least this guy is not delusional like most of the rest of the state...
Posted on 12/6/08 at 5:02 pm to Auburntiger
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Remember 2003? A decision had been made to fire Tuberville before the season ended. Auburn was in suburban Louisville, Ky., securing Bobby Petrino as Tuberville's successor nearly a week before Tuberville's scheduled termination date.
I still can't believe Tuberville didn't take his undefeated season and walk after they pulled that shite in 2003
Posted on 12/6/08 at 6:17 pm to baytiger
In the history of the BCS no team got screwed more than Auburn with their undefeated season...
Posted on 12/6/08 at 6:39 pm to Tiger in Texas
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In the history of the BCS no team got screwed more than Auburn with their undefeated season...
Auburn beat LSU when it got the chance to kick an extra point over on a BS call.
It's called karma...
Posted on 12/6/08 at 10:11 pm to Tiger in Texas
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In the history of the BCS no team got screwed more than Auburn with their undefeated season...
What really hurt Auburn that year was Georgia Tech adding on to Grant Field the year before. The original Auburn/Tech series was supposed to be for three years - one in the Georgia Dome, then at Tech and then at Auburn.
Tech added on to Grant Field and asked for permission to have their home game played in 2003 to help open the new and improved stadium. Auburn said fine. By doing that, they tried to reschedule the 2004 game for the Dome, but they couldn't find a weekend where both teams, and the Dome, had an available opening so they just skipped that game - AU had to replace them with a 1-AA school, and did the series as a home and home in 03 and 05. Of course GT won both of those games, so who is to say AU would have gone undefeated if they played Tech in 04.
Posted on 12/6/08 at 10:37 pm to PJinAtl
there is no doubt in my mind au woulda whipped tech in 04.
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