ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
With the 2009 college football season quickly approaching, I find it hard to believe Tommy Bowden, Tommy Tuberville and Phil Fulmer won't be roaming sidelines this year. Covering football in the South, those names, with 362 career victories among them, have been staples this decade and beyond. read more
Get The Picture (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... 2004? Sorry, Tigers fans, I know, but it’s the best example of how preseason polls are important. Tommy Tuberville’s Auburn team started the season ranked 17th in the preseason poll and finished undefeated — along with Oklahoma and USC — only to have the Big Blue computers at the BCS put the Sooners and Trojans in the title game. In other words, we need a preseason poll to make sure...
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
... After all, the much-loved Tigers were undefeated in 2004 under the guidance of revered coach Tommy Tuberville and were ranked second in polls at season end. The 87,451 seats at Jordan-Hare Stadium would never go wanting on game day and what every red-blooded Auburn fan of means couldn’t live without was a game-day condo. Heck people would buy units just to have a parking place on...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
ATLANTA -- Lou Holtz couldn't believe what he was seeing. Tommy Tuberville simply said, 'Wow.' Houston Nutt sat back and chuckled. Nick Saban shook his head slowly and said, "This guy is something else."
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
The Buckeyes boss joined fellow national champion Mack Brown, of Texas, along with UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, Wake Forest's Jim Grobe, Air Force's Troy Calhoun, Mississippi's Houston Nutt and Tommy Tuberville, formerly of Auburn.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
The Buckeyes boss joined fellow national champion Mack Brown, of Texas, along with UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, Wake Forest's Jim Grobe, Air Force's Troy Calhoun, Mississippi's Houston Nutt and Tommy Tuberville, formerly of Auburn.
SoCal Sports Hub (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
... My buddy asked if I wanted a pic with Mack, I replied: ‘Are you kidding me? Heck no!, haha…’ “Tommy Tuberville: very cordial and friendly. I think he got the raw deal at Auburn. “Houston Nutt: He and I talked about Midwest City, he and his wife are Okie State alums. [...] “Rick Neuheisel: best tan of them all, haha…nice guy with a super personality, all the female troops naturally...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Did you hear the one about Auburn hiring a guy who went 5-19 at Iowa State?Tommy Tuberville was four seasons removed from a 13-0 campaign, had won nine games or more in five of the previous seven seasons, and had an experienced team returning for this year. None of it was enough to save his job thanks to the problems last year on offense, with the soap opera with offensive coordinator...
WaitingForNextYear (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
Firstly, Coach Jim Tressel is on his way this weekend to visit troops in . This is the second such trip that has been organized, the first going last spring. Coach Tressel will be traveling with Mack Brown of Texas, Rich Neuheisel of UCLA, Houston Nutt of Ole Miss, Troy Calhoun of Air Force and former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville. The trip is scheduled to go for eight days. Tressel has...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
[Guest post by DRJ] Texas football Coach Mack Brown, as he prepares to visit the troops with Ohio State’s Jim Tressel, Mississippi’s Houston Nutt, Wake Forest’s Jim Grobe, UCLA’s Rick Neuheisel, the Air Force Academy’s Troy Calhoun and former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville: “[In the military,] you never know when you leave in the morning if you [...]...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
... Neuheisel and Wake Forest's Jim Grobe. They return June 4. Also on the trip: former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, who was part of the first tour last season. The group will make an initial stop at a U.S. base and military hospital in Germany before visits to Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, Spain and Africa. The official schedule is not being released because of security concerns. The trip...
SoCal Sports Hub (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
... a little bit of home to them, then we have accomplished the goal of the tour.” Former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, Mack Brown (Texas), Troy Calhoun (Air Force), Jim Tressel (Ohio State), Jim Grobe (Wake Forest), and Houston Nutt (Mississippi) will join CRN on this “Coach’s Tour”. They are going to leave from McConnell Air Force Base, near Wichita, KS, on May 27. The troops they...
