Why did tuberville leave auburn

Pointing out that he lost to Vanderbilt in does not make him inherently unqualified. OK, I had to get one jab in. But it can be difficult to get a sense of what that platform consists of, outside of complete allegiance to Donald Trump.

Tuberville has refused to participate in any debates , both in the primary and general election campaigns, and declined to answer written questions about his policies. The one thing Tuberville has repeatedly made clear is his opposition to non-white immigrants.

While he was head coach at Texas Tech in , Tuberville went on Fox News to parrot conspiracy theories about whether President Obama was born in the U.

Before running for office, Tuberville was a football coach for 40 years, starting as a high school assistant in the s and progressing up to college head coaching positions. He also worked as an ESPN analyst in and briefly co-owned a hedge fund. Of the 11 Alabama Senate post-primary polls in the FiveThirtyEight database , Tuberville is ahead by double digits in nine.

If Tuberville is elected, the question will shift from what Tuberville stands for to how he will legislate. The job of politicians is to improve the lives of those they represent, even if they often spew false promises before turning around and serving their own interests. His first head coaching job came at Ole Miss. He was getting off a plane with an Auburn hat. It felt like a slap in the face.

Decades later, the pine box comment still gets brought up routinely. Tuberville was forced out because he has been frustrating Auburn's fans, powerful boosters, and administration with his machinations for years. And there is more evidence that he was simply losing control of his situation at Auburn: it was filtering down to the players.

Consider the DeRon Furr incident. DeRon Furr was one of the top QB prospects in the southeast and probably the top prospect overall in Tuberville's recruiting class. One of Tuberville's biggest attributes is that he has a Frank Beamer-like quality of being able to find talented players without needing a boatload of four- and five-star recruits.

Furr came to Auburn to run their new spread offense, as he himself led a Georgia high school to the state title using that offense. Fall practice comes along and Furr decides to move again, to safety. Now some of the Auburn defensive backs had developed the idiotic opinion that the team's underachieving the prior two seasons was due to the underclassmen not working hard enough. So, they decided that they were going to beat the tar out of a freshman the next chance that they got.

The ringleader? Zac Etheridge. So, when Furr starts trash talking as football players are wont to do and has trouble adjusting to the very tough fall practices in the SEC as again high school true freshmen are known to do Etheridge attacks Furr and several other defensive players pile on top of him. No one, not another player or a coach, stood up for Furr, who was soundly pummelled by several older players. He had absolutely no opportunity to defend himself. Furr, beaten and publicly humiliated in front of a team filled with virtual strangers, again none of whom lifted a finger to aid him, had to be helped off the field and to the locker room.

Even better: no action whatsoever was taken against Etheridge or the other losers who thought the way to win an SEC title was to gang up on and beat up a year-old. So Furr, perceiving himself as having no advocates at Auburn, transferred. Again, as one of the most highly touted players in the Southeast, there was much demand for his services, even after Tuberville limited his options by refusing to allow him to transfer to anyone on their schedule.

But Furr chose to play for a program where a respected former athlete at his high school was serving as defensive coordinator, to make sure that if he was ever violently scapegoated in such a manner again, something would be done to the malefactors.

That was not all the damage, as Furr's brother, who is also a highly regarded recruit, is obviously no longer going to go to Auburn.

So, this incident cost Auburn not only a future starting safety but also a starting linebacker as well. Again, make no mistake, the real reason why Etheridge and his band decided that beating up a freshman who likely was going to redshirt that season anyway was the way to win a national title was because of their frustrations at an Auburn program that failed to follow up on their season with so much as a trip to the SEC title game.

Naturally, beating up and running off the top player in their recruiting class did not yield the result that Zac Etheridge and his sucker-punch allies desired, but the opposite: a season. But the root cause was nonetheless Tuberville's losing control of his program because of his own antics, and his failure to rise up to the occasion and defend his player when Furr left Tuberville claimed that it was because Furr wanted to play quarterback, but as Furr will be playing defensive back at a lesser school that obviously wasn't it , and that was the same trait that was seen in Tuberville's undermining and then scapegoating a string of offensive coordinators.

Auburn had enough, and rightly so. They deserve a coach who will be accountable, instead of one who will keep blaming and firing people for his mistakes. They also deserve a coach who will simply let well enough alone, acknowledge his limitations, and let people who are capable and qualified to do what he is not serve in their jobs.

Now I will grant you: what Tuberville did at Auburn reminds me a lot of how Pete Carroll ran off Norm Chow, an action which cost Carroll at least two national titles and plus spots in the and national title games.

But A Carroll has his two titles already and B is in the Pac He can afford to indulge his whims. It is not only a second-tier SEC program in terms of recruiting like Georgia and Tennessee, but even in that group they are at a disadvantage: Georgia pretty much has a much more populous and talent-rich state to itself technically it shares the state with Georgia Tech, but in reality, unlike Auburn-Alabama, the two schools compete head to head for very few recruits, and when they do UGA almost always wins and Tennessee has a history of being able to recruit nationally.

So Carroll will have five-star talent and a Pac that cannot compete with USC in recruiting to mask the questionable gameday coaching, playcalling, and player development since Norm Chow left. I bet Vidal Hazelton wishes that he had listened to his stepfather and gone to Penn State, don't you?! Auburn needs to develop players that will generally be lower profile recruits than those at LSU, Alabama, Florida, and even at times UGA and Tennessee, and often not much better than what a very good coach will be able to bring to Ole Miss, Arkansas, and South Carolina the third tier, with Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Mississippi State making up the fourth.

Auburn couldn't afford to put up with Tuberville's nonsense any longer, and quite frankly put up with it longer than they should have. While that season worked out very well for the Auburn players, the truth is that it only delayed Tuberville's inevitable departure and hurt Auburn in the long run.

Incidentally, Auburn should hire Bobby Johnson. That will make hiring the next coach at Auburn that much harder. Now Tuberville is still a very good coach. He will succeed wherever he goes. He initially claimed he had tried to grab Oliver's shirt and remove him from the field, but apologized for the incident a few days later. Tuberville went the following year, but again left amid controversy: While Devonte Danzey, a JUCO recruit, was in Lubbock, Texas, for an official visit, Tuberville interrupted their dinner by picking up a call from Cincinnati saying he'd received the Bearcats' coaching job.

He reportedly left Danzey at the restaurant without a word, and was announced as Cincinnati's coach the next day. Tuberville went in each of his first two seasons in Cincinnati in and '14, respectively; the second of those campaigns netted the Bearcats the American Athletic Conference co-championship due to their league record.

Both of those seasons ended in bowl losses, however. Tuberville went in and in In the latter season — following a loss to BYU that dropped his team to — Tuberville, clearly frustrated, told a fan to "go to hell" and "get a job" as he exited the stadium.

WCPO pic. Cincinnati issued a statement the next day, saying he was put in a "no-win situation. A statement on the postgame event near our locker room following the BYU game last night. In December , Tuberville resigned, leaving Cincinnati with a overall record. Tuberville, after announcing in he would not run for Alabama governor , signaled on Twitter his intent to run for U.

Senate in April I invite you to join my team. Tuberville ran against Jeff Sessions — who held the seat from until his resignation in , when he became Attorney General — and Bradley Byrne in the state's March primaries. Tuberville won 33 percent of the voting, whereas Sessions won 32 percent. Byrne won 25 percent of the vote, failing to advance to a runoff. The runoff between Tuberville and Sessions largely centered on which of the two was more valuable to President Donald Trump. Said Tuberville following the primary election:.

Sessions responded similarly: "Anyone can say they are for the Trump agenda. But talk is cheap. But I have fought on the great issues of our day and won. I have stood alone on facts and principles and won. Trump, who fired Sessions as Attorney General in November , endorsed Tuberville ahead of the runoff.

S Senate on July 14 in a landslide victory in the runoff: He had a percent lead over Sessions with just over a third of the state reporting its results. Wow, just called! Represents Alabama poorly. On to November 3rd.