There’s not much I can add to Bill’s header here (“Revisiting the 2004 college football season: Picking Oklahoma over Auburn was justifiable”), even if I wanted to. Which I don’t.
Category Archives: Tommy Tuberville – Mythical National Champ
Wednesday morning buffet
The buffet line never ends.
- Russ Mitchell has always been a huge fan of Mark Richt. Here’s his latest verse from the same song.
- Coming soon to a cut-out bin near you…
- Phil Steele’s top two running back groups for 2014 are Alabama and Georgia.
- Meet Judge Claudia Wilken.
- Here’s Paul Myerberg’s preview of Georgia’s September 20th opponent, #77 Troy.
- There are at least eleven receivers coaches making more than $300,000 per year. How many of ’em are better than Tony Ball?
- Athlon convenes a panel to vote on the fourteen SEC venues. Sanford Stadium checks in at number three: “It may not be the SEC’s biggest or loudest stadium, but it is the most beautiful.”
- Bookkeeping magic: Nike pays Urban Meyer $1.4 million a year, but Ohio State says he doesn’t have a contract with Nike.
- Greg McGarity expects the NCAA to cap the size of schools’ athletic support staffs soon.
- Supposedly, Alabama and Cincinnati are discussing a series. I guess Tubs wants another crack at the Tide.
Saving Private Tuberville
So, one firing and two schools later, Tommy Tuberville is still chasing his great white whale.
Though Auburn laying claim to a national title that year would get into tricky territory since there was a designated championship game in 2004 and the Tigers weren’t selected to play in it, they were an undefeated champion of a major conference and won a significant bowl game.
“What I was disappointed with is we didn’t have the media step up and say, ‘OK, there’s got to be a champion so who is it? It obviously should have been us,” Tuberville said. “Oklahoma lost. Maybe they could say it should be split because they played in the game. But Auburn went undefeated.
“If it’d been Michigan, if it had been Alabama, there would have been more of a push toward saying, hey they should be named No. 1. But Auburn, for some reason, we never got to first base on it. There was no support out of the administration.”
Sense of shame? Recognition that it’s hard to claim a BCS title without playing in a BCS title game? Who knows.
But it may now be a thing.
That could be changing.
Jay Jacobs told AL.com that a committee will meet in June to discuss whether the school should officially recognize more than the two national titles for which it officially hangs banners.
That sounds like fun. Especially when Auburn rationalizes claiming a 2004 championship due to USC’s ineligibility and a 1993 one in spite of its own ineligibility.
I just hope they have another parade.
Tommy Tuberville’s wet dream
Auburn is contemplating claiming a national title for its 2004 team.
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UPDATE: Bruce Feldman has a point.
What next? Does Utah also get to claim a national title in 2004 since the Utes won a BCS Bowl in a blowout, were undefeated that year and didn’t have players who went on HBO RealSports and said they received extra benefits as some Tiger players from that team later did?
Corch couldn’t have said that any better himself.
Tommy Tuberville wants you!
The tricky part is figuring out between the recruits he’s running out on from dinner at his old school and the recruits he’s running off from his new school who you is, exactly.
The world’s longest bathroom break
Best Tuberville recruiting story EVAH:
Shortly after arriving in Lubbock, Danzey and at least two other recruits — lineman Sunny Odogwu and receiver Javess Blue — along with “eight to 10” coaches, including Tuberville, all went to dinner at the 50-Yard Line Restaurant on South Loop 289, Danzey said.
In the midst of the conversation at the table, he asked the coaches how long they expected to be at Tech (if they were not fired), he said.
“I asked Coach (Charlie) Weis at KU and Coach (Dana) Holgorsen at West Virginia (the same question), just so I know my relationship with them,” Danzey said. “(Tuberville) was just telling me he coached at Miami and Auburn, he coached 10 years and recruited Ray Lewis and kind of blew the question off I didn’t even realize.”
He added: “The waitress brought our food out, and we thought (Tuberville) went to the bathroom, but he never came back to dinner. Then next thing I know, the next day, he made an announcement that he’s going to Cincinnati.”
Funny how Ole Miss never entered the conversation. Of course, maybe he really had to go.
The best thing would be if he called the kid to try to talk him into a trip to Cinci.
The last disillusioned man in Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech’s AD haz a sad.
Texas Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt was stunned when Tuberville called to tell him he was leaving.
“The first indication I got was at 10:32 this morning when he called me,” Hocutt said. “Tommy and I have talked a number of times since the conclusion of the Baylor game this year, and as recently as yesterday he looked me in the eye and gave me his commitment and dedication to Texas Tech football and leading this program forward.”
Well, that worked at Ole Miss, pine box and all. The man is consistent.
Besides, it’s hard to feel sorry for a guy whining about loyalty who works at the same institution that shitcanned Mike Leach the day before he was scheduled to earn an $800,000 retention bonus.
