Tuberville to Cincinnati
Leaving Texas Tech for the Cincinnati seems like a downward move. One of the weirdest coaching moves of the year in my opinion.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8726388/tommy-tuberville…
December 8th, 2012 at 7:09 PM ^
85% of the offensive play calls are within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage.
When he was hired he promised the fans not to tinker with the offense at all. TTU folks are bitter about his tenure, in part because they were lied to..
December 8th, 2012 at 2:42 PM ^
gotta stick with the coaching tree
December 8th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^
I thought he had family ties to that area.. I guess it was about the $$
December 8th, 2012 at 3:21 PM ^
Maybe he started hearing stories about CJK5h and wanted to get out of town before they ghosts of the dearly departed 5 started to haunt his sleep.
December 8th, 2012 at 3:42 PM ^
Unlike his last job, Tuberville left before everyone wanted him out. I think it was a great move. Since the average amount of patience for a coach who doesn't win right now is three years, and it only takes one bad year after the first three to get fired at most schools lately, I am guessing that he felt like he had one or two years left at TTU.
December 8th, 2012 at 3:49 PM ^
Eh.
Tech isn't that great a place to coach IMO. Besides the limited resources, it's no longer the #3 school in the state. I think Baylor, with RG3's Heisman, Art Briles contract extension, and the new stadium has surpassed Tech. I also think TCU, which is now in the Big XII, has passed Tech. So Tech is just not that great a place to coach because recruiting wise, it is less desirable. Lubbock isn't great either, and I know that neither Tuberville nor the Tech community embraced each other, so it's probably for the best.
The move makes sense for Tuberville and Tech can find a coach that better fits them.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:09 PM ^
Is no longer the #3 program in the state BECAUSE of Tuberville.
Cincy may win a few games because of their conference, but they'll be out coached in every game, I promise.
December 8th, 2012 at 4:04 PM ^
I think this is great for both Tommy and Cincinnati. Upgrade all around. I'm still suspicious of Butch Jones being a great coach. He's obviously good at maintaining a successful program but I'm not sure he's a stud that some people make him out to be.
December 8th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
There might have been a little bit of grumbling because he bitch slapped a graduate assistant. Typically doesn't go over well when you're hitting students.
December 8th, 2012 at 7:15 PM ^
He ripped the assistant's headset off of his head.
December 8th, 2012 at 4:23 PM ^
I'm not buying the idea that Tuberville left before he got thrown out of Lubbock. That's not how coaches operate. If they did, Rich Rod woud have got the heck out of Dodge in year 2 - it was pretty obvious his seat was going to be scorching hot in year 3. As we all know, he stuck around, ended up fired and got a cool $1.5 as a parting gift.
Are you really saying that leaving before he got fired - going to Cincy nonetheles - was worth foregoing a potential buyout "if", and that's a big "if", he got fired next year?
Tuberville is angry with someone in Lubbock - the AD, the administration, or both. That's got to be the reason for his lateral move to a Big East program.
December 8th, 2012 at 6:41 PM ^
Leach was having issues with them as well. There might be seething ingrained out there. That or he wanted to get the hell out of Lubbock, which TBH I have great sympathy for, there are nice places to live in Texas. Lubbock isn't one of them.
December 9th, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
The administration at Tech is an embarrassment, Lubbock pretty much sucks, and Tech fans wanted him gone. He was going to take any job he could that would get him out of here, and I don't blame him in the slightest.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:11 PM ^
Well, you're wrong.
He's a coward as a coach and a coward in life.
December 9th, 2012 at 11:13 AM ^
Tuberville's wife is from the Cincinnati area. She may have wanted to return home.
December 8th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
I hope you are right, Magnus. As much as I despise Narduzzi, and as much as I really like Greg Mattison, I think a good case can be made that Narduzzi is the best Asst. Coach/Coordinator in the Big Ten.
I'd love to see Narduzzi gone. I think he has been the one essential element in whatever success Sparty has had in the Dantonio era.
I'll happily be the first to congratulate you on this prediction if it turns out to be correct.
December 8th, 2012 at 4:49 PM ^
I'm on the other side where I don't mind him staying at MSU or moving onto another Big Ten school. I'd really like to see Big Ten schools retaining their talent. We need a better and deeper Big Ten from top to bottom. Obviously though, it's Sparty. We want them to do bad (or at least worse than us). But I'm pretty confident with the way things are going for us, that we will beat them consistently from here on out. I'd like for them to still be a respected program though that we can count on as a quality win.
I don't know if this comes off as a controversial view point or not...
December 8th, 2012 at 5:32 PM ^
it was a "weird" move but think about what conference is easier to win. Now eventually the Big East will be absorbed into one of the super conferences but for now it is an easier path to a BCS bowl through Cincy.
December 8th, 2012 at 5:55 PM ^
"Now eventually the Big East will be absorbed into one of the super conferences"
That's already happened, one school at a time.
It's possible Cincinnati might be able to follow, though their stadium issues may be a problem they can't overcome. But the 2014 Big East isn't going to be absorbed, in toto, into a superconference.
December 8th, 2012 at 7:00 PM ^
You're not hiring Tuberville unless you plan on being getting out of the festering corpse of the big east. They'll announce a stadium expansion before the end of next week, book that
December 8th, 2012 at 9:24 PM ^
Interesting - the TT fans seem happy he's left them.
http://www.vivathematadors.com/2012/12/8/3743820/tommy-tuberville-cinci…
December 9th, 2012 at 10:14 AM ^
What school did dantonio coach at? Wasn't he at Cinn? Dantonio, Kelly, Jones, and now Tuberville, I guess CMU coach wasn't ready to make that next jump.