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You can tell exactly what Texas Tech hated about Leach by this hire. You had an arrogant, pirate loving, offensive mind and you replace him with a quiet unassuming Tommy Tuberville. Tuberville must have desperately wanted this job. He didn't insist on hiring his own staff

This will be the demise of Texas Tech, they won't be much now without Leach...

Ytowngirlinfla wrote: This will be the demise of Texas Tech, they won't be much now without Leach...

Yeah, Leach put them on the map. It'll be interesting to see where he ends up

Ytowngirlinfla wrote: This will be the demise of Texas Tech, they won't be much now without Leach...

I don't know about a complete demise. Tuberville has recruiting ties all across the South and Texas has a lot of HS football talent. Many kids will go play for Tuberville off of name recognition alone. Tuberville really only had one subpar year at Auburn and is in my book a very good coach.

I think a bigger blow to Tech will come when Texas A&M fires Mike Sherman and hires Kevin Sumlin in the next year or two and/or when the MWC gets their automatic bid (TCU).

I find it odd frankly that 3 coaches get dismissed for the same thing in the same year. It's just colleges wanting to get rid of coaches the wrong way. Anyways I loved watching Tech's crazy offense. I wonder if they'll keep that going.

Ytowngirlinfla wrote: I find it odd frankly that 3 coaches get dismissed for the same thing in the same year. It's just colleges wanting to get rid of coaches the wrong way. Anyways I loved watching Tech's crazy offense. I wonder if they'll keep that going.

I also find it odd, but I think it has more to do with universities not wanting bad press for keeping a guy after doing the same thing another school fired their coach for doing.

Had press surrounding the coach's treatment of players never came into being with Leach, Leavitt would still have a job at USF right now.

With Tech it was all about getting rid of Leach and finding a supposed 'good out', though.

Little Danny wrote:

I don't know about a complete demise. Tuberville has recruiting ties all across the South and Texas has a lot of HS football talent. Many kids will go play for Tuberville off of name recognition alone. Tuberville really only had one subpar year at Auburn and is in my book a very good coach.

I think a bigger blow to Tech will come when Texas A&M fires Mike Sherman and hires Kevin Sumlin in the next year or two and/or when the MWC gets their automatic bid (TCU).

I agree. TTU is destined to always play about 4th fiddle in Texas behind UT, A&M and TCU.

AP source: Tuberville to become Texas Tech coach

LUBBOCK, Texas — A person close to the decision tells the Associated Press that Texas Tech has hired Tommy Tuberville as its next coach.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Saturday because the school had not yet announced the decision.

Tuberville will succeed Mike Leach, who was fired last month amid allegations he mistreated a player who suffered a concussion.

The 55-year-old Tuberville stepped down at Auburn in December 2008, ending a 10-year tenure that included a perfect season and a string of teams that contended for Southeastern Conference championships.

Tuberville was 85-40 at Auburn, including a 13-0 season in 2004 when the Tigers finished No. 2 and won the SEC title for the first time in 15 years.

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I thought he'd consider USF, easier to win there. Maybe he already reached an agreement yesterday. Maybe the timing... USF fired Leavitt because they were going after Tuberville ?

Speedofsand wrote: AP source: Tuberville to become Texas Tech coach

LUBBOCK, Texas — A person close to the decision tells the Associated Press that Texas Tech has hired Tommy Tuberville as its next coach.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Saturday because the school had not yet announced the decision.

Tuberville will succeed Mike Leach, who was fired last month amid allegations he mistreated a player who suffered a concussion.

The 55-year-old Tuberville stepped down at Auburn in December 2008, ending a 10-year tenure that included a perfect season and a string of teams that contended for Southeastern Conference championships.

Tuberville was 85-40 at Auburn, including a 13-0 season in 2004 when the Tigers finished No. 2 and won the SEC title for the first time in 15 years.

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I thought he'd consider USF, easier to win there. Maybe he already reached an agreement yesterday. Maybe the timing... USF fired Leavitt because they were going after Tuberville ?

Well then USF just got screwed, I don't think USF is a tempting job for a big name coach to come down there. They are the 4th best in the state of Florida.

Yes they are, but they beat FSU in Tally with a 2nd game freshman QB.
I think he could win the conference in Tampa but not in Lubbock.

I like this hire for Texas Tech. Tuberville is a good coach that will recruit quality kids and he'll win some football games as well

Texas Tech had one blind-squirrel-finding-a-nut season in 2008. Other than that, they were consistently a 4-5 loss team who finished middle of the pack in the Big 12 under Leach. He went 12-31 against top 25 opponents.

Do you really not think Tuberville will be able to maintain an 8-4 record every year? Especially if he plays the kind of non-conference schedules Leach did every year (last season for example: 1-aa Eastern Washington, 1-aa UMass, 1-11 SMU, Nevada).

Oh, and Leach's first season was in 2000. Texas Tech made bowls in 1993, 94, 95, 96 and 98 in the decade before he was hired. It isn't like they were losing 10 games every season.

I knew they wouldn't hire Ruffin McNeal, despite the announcers on the TTU-MSU game lobbying for him.

Mulva wrote: Texas Tech had one blind-squirrel-finding-a-nut season in 2008. Other than that, they were consistently a 4-5 loss team who finished middle of the pack in the Big 12 under Leach. He went 12-31 against top 25 opponents.

Do you really not think Tuberville will be able to maintain an 8-4 record every year? Especially if he plays the kind of non-conference schedules Leach did every year (last season for example: 1-aa Eastern Washington, 1-aa UMass, 1-11 SMU, Nevada).

Oh, and Leach's first season was in 2000. Texas Tech made bowls in 1993, 94, 95, 96 and 98 in the decade before he was hired. It isn't like they were losing 10 games every season.

Agree with just about all of this. I love to watch Leach's offense and he's a character to say the least. Hope he finds some place and all that. But last year was an anomaly and TT wasn't that poor off to begin with. Spike Dykes had a nice career there prior to Leach, just without the one spectacular season. Leach did a nice job, but I don't imagine Tuberville will be a bomb. Likely to be more of the same without being as fun to watch.

Ytowngirlinfla wrote: This will be the demise of Texas Tech, they won't be much now without Leach...

The two coaches are within a couple of points in terms of winning percentage, I'm not sure why I should believe the program will fail.

The reason I said that is because I wonder if Tuberville will keep that kind of offense, if he doesn't I don't see them being successful. Texas High School football was changed to the offense like Tech ran under Leach. Would be hard to get the best recruits if he changes the offense.

good hire