Tuberville to Be Named Texas Tech Coach

Tommy Tuberville will be named Texas Tech's coach on Sunday, according ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel.

Tuberville, 55, replaces Mike Leach, who was fired Dec. 30.

Tuberville has few ties to Texas. His only experience coaching in the talent-rich state came in 1994, when he was the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M. He left the following season to become coach at Mississippi.

Auburn, which pressured Terry Bowden into resigning midway through the 1998 season, then contacted Tuberville about becoming its coach. When asked about leaving Oxford, Tuberville said, "They’ll have to carry me out of here in a pine box."

Two days later, he accepted Auburn's offer.

He coached Auburn through the 2008 season before resigning after a 5-7 season.

He has a career record of 110-60.

Comments

[binoba]

I'll bet the guys will be really flying around and have their best week of practice ever pretty soon. Get ready for coachspeak and a head coach who can't do a thing about the problems on offense except hire someone else.

[tc beach]

Tech needs a gimmick to stand out in that state. once they lose their high octane rep, they'll lose their national exposure.

[Ed Frady]

I wonder how much ESPN had to do with the selection????

[Beez]

you guys are a bunch of retards if you think Tubby is going to come into Lubbock and change this offense.

[onelstsnd]

one of the things that really frustrated auburn fans was his unwillingness to fire any of his buddies....and the OCs and DCs he kept bringing in were never part of that crew....from what i am reading, he is trying to assemble a lot of the same people around him once again...dunn, knox, price, ensminger, etc...

[binoba]

We'll see how he does. He's a CEO type "coach", he couldn't start to change the offense himself if he wanted to, he'll have to hire someone for that. His situation at AU is nothing like this he's gotten into at TT. I'm anxious to see how it turns out.