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Tommy Tuberville is Leaving Texas Tech for Cincinnati

By 11W Staff - 08 December 2012
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Triv on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:07pm #

So does TTU look at Herman? He has those Texas ties

Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite

Jason Staff on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:08pm #

Thinking Kliff Kingsbury.

BuckNutInAnnArbor on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:24pm #

You think he's ready for it?

"...but then again 'Michigan' and 'huge mistake' are synonymous so that shouldn't have been much of a surprise to anybody." - Mark Titus

cplunk on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:14pm #

Well that makes recruiting in Ohio a little more of a challenge than it has been.

Brutus on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:29pm #

Do you think? Tuberville strikes me as a guy who's best years are behind him. He probably never should have been fired by Auburn, but he was so that sort of put a black cloud over him. Then his antics at TT didn't make him look any better. I would say going to Cincinnati is a lateral move at best and he's coming to an area which (I think), he doesn't have that much experience recruiting in. And I don't see recruits lining up to play for Tubervile. I could be wrong, but I don't see this as having any impact on recruiting for OSU. Now if we play Cincy in the future, that's a different story. He's still a decent coach. He's just sort of an a-hole.

D. Anthony on 8 Dec 2012 - 3:11pm #

Tuberville's stock has fallen a good deal from where it was when he had a great Auburn team...he's a few games over .500 since then and has had some PR issues. Butch Jones and Brian Kelly were more of a threat while at Cincy than a past-his -prime Tuberville.

D. Anthony

onetwentyeight on 8 Dec 2012 - 3:23pm #

Tuberville's never coached outside the South before. No way his Ohio HS recruiting approaches Urban's full-scale land war operation.

Also, he's old, the game has passed him by, and was 9-17 in BigXII play. Which is sterling.

Torpedo Vegas on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:20pm #

Welp this puts a capper on a pretty weird coaching carousel.

cplunk on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:27pm #

The funny thing is that I bet Tennessee fans would be much happier if they'd hired Tuberville instead of the guy they took from Cincy.

btalbert25 on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:31pm #

I was thinking UC upgraded quite a bit on a coach myself. He's better than Jones.

DetroitBuckeye on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:30pm #

I wonder if he will bring the Air Raid with him???

NoVA Buckeye on 8 Dec 2012 - 3:37pm #

He wasn't an Air Raid guy...

/Duff'd It

MediBuck on 8 Dec 2012 - 4:01pm #

He wasn't, but his offensive coaching staff ran it since he got to TxT.

"There is a force that makes us all brothers, no one goes his way alone." --Woody Hayes

DetroitBuckeye on 8 Dec 2012 - 7:41pm #

They ran it at Texas Tech so I was wondering if maybe he would bring the system with him. I know he wasn't Leach or anything but sometimes coaches change their coaching philosophies mid-career. Look at Urban when he went away from the pro style offense.

biggy84 on 8 Dec 2012 - 2:51pm #

Solich and Tuberville can reminesce about how they used to be relevant.

Ultrabuckeyehomer on 8 Dec 2012 - 3:11pm #

Its a good move for Cincy - there is a lot of big east level talent right in the area, can compete for BCS bowls (at least for now) and for Tbberville, no real chance of being fired. Worked with the AD at Auburn and that's why he was asked, I'm sure