Um...Tubs to Cincy.

[jmar]

Not only did Coach Tubs leaving kinda catch the Texas Tech Administration off guard, but he accepted the deal while he was at a dinner with some of the other TTech coaches and a handful of recruits that were on their official visit (they said that he took a call, walked out of the room and never came back before they left). I liked CTT, but doing something like that just isn't decent at all...that's fucking shitty.

How do you like that?
Sticks 'em with the check using the ol' I gotta take this call outside routine. Could have at least scribbled a note for the hostess to give 'em...
Abandon ship!
Women, children and Head Coaches first!!

[JR4AU]

Not only did Coach Tubs leaving kinda catch the Texas Tech Administration off guard, but he accepted the deal while he was at a dinner with some of the other TTech coaches and a handful of recruits that were on their official visit (they said that he took a call, walked out of the room and never came back before they left). I liked CTT, but doing something like that just isn't decent at all...that's fucking shitty.

Source?

[AUChizad]

Source?

Was the topic du jour yesterday on teh Twitterz.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/12/juco-prospect-tuberville-ditched-texas-tech-recruits-during-dinner/related/

JUCO prospect: Tuberville ditched Texas Tech recruits during dinner
Posted by John Taylor on December 12, 2012, 11:19 AM EST
Tommy Tuberville AP

There have been many odd stories surrounding the departures of head coaches from one school to another over the years.  This one may go down as the most bizarre.  And classless.

News of Tommy Tuberville agreeing to become the new head coach at Cincinnati first surfaced Dec. 8, with an introductory press conference later in the day offering official confirmation that he was leaving Texas Tech after three years.  The night before news first surfaced that he was leaving the Red Raiders, though, it was business as usual for Tuberville.

Tuberville and members of his Tech coaching staff hosted recruits, including JUCO prospect Devonte Danzey, on a visit that included dinner at a local restaurant.  During the dinner, and as he had with coaches such as Kansas’ Charlie Weis and West Virginia’s Dana Holgorsen, Danzey asked Tuberville how long he expected to be the coach of the Red Raiders.

Tuberville, according to Danzey, talked around the question without ever answering directly, even throwing in an out-of-nowhere reference to recruiting Ray Lewis.  A short time later, Tuberville performed the coaching version of the dine-and-dash.

“The waitress brought our food out, and we thought (Tuberville) went to the bathroom, but he never came back to dinner,” Danzey told 247Sports.com. “Then next thing I know, the next day, he made an announcement that he’s going to Cincinnati.”

That’s right.  Tuberville, again according to Danzey, ditched players he was recruiting in the middle of dinner, presumably to put the finishing touches on his departure from Lubbock to Cincinnati.  To add insult to that insult, Tuberville bailed on a planned tour of campus the next morning, with the recruits only learning of Tuberville’s move to the Bearcats from a Tech assistant shortly after the tour had ended.

“Everybody was going crazy,” the offensive lineman told the website. “The players were shocked, too. We still had a good time at night, but it was crazy how he just got up and left out of nowhere and left people in the dark and in the shadow.”

It should be noted that this is merely one individual’s version of how events unfolded this past weekend.  If true?  Very classy move, Tubs, in a gutless kind of way.

Karma, though, can be a vindictive mistress, especially when it comes to the recruiting trail, where coaches who will recruit head-to-head with Tuberville and his new Bearcats staff are no doubt already licking their chops — regardless of if Danzey’s account is accurate or not.

[dallaswareagle]

I heard that once he accepted the position with Cincy that he could no longer talk to the cruits as a rep of TT. So it may have been a legal thing.

[War Eagle!!!]

I heard that once he accepted the position with Cincy that he could no longer talk to the cruits as a rep of TT. So it may have been a legal thing.

Bullshit.

It is a shitty thing to do...

[Snaggletiger]

Tubby has done a couple of interviews and says this all came about Saturday.  That the Cincy AD called him and started talking about different coaching possibilities.  Then the AD raised the question of what about Tubs.  One thing led to another and next thing you know, boom, Tubs is headed north. 

What the fuck ever, Tommy. 

[dallaswareagle]

Bullshit.

It is a shitty thing to do...

Yes, it was(It was very shitty), but what did you want him to do?  He had accepted the HC at another school. Could he have done the exit more gracefully, Yes. 

[War Eagle!!!]

Yes, it was(It was very shitty), but what did you want him to do?  He had accepted the HC at another school. Could he have done the exit more gracefully, Yes.

Not officially accepted until after dinner.

Easy.

It was bullshit.  can't think of anything more shitty than walking out on the middle of dinner.

[dallaswareagle]

Not officially accepted until after dinner.

Easy.

It was bullshit.  can't think of anything more shitty than walking out on the middle of dinner.

I have in-laws coming in from South America for the holidays. Come have dinner with us and see if you feel the same about walking out. Not enough beer in the world to keep me at the table. 

[Buzz Killington]

Who carried the pine box out of the restaurant?

[dallaswareagle]

Who carried the pine box out of the restaurant?

Lubbock and bad mexican food.

[The Prowler]

Let's see how much he loves the Bearcats if the Miami Hurricanes job opens up.

[The Prowler]

I just realized, JUCO OL Devonte Danzey, same one in the article, will be visiting Auburn this weekend.

[djsimp]

Let's see how much he loves the Bearcats if the Miami Hurricanes job opens up.

That won't take long.

[AUChizad]

Taiwanese Animation News on the situation.

[The Six]

Taiwanese Animation News on the situation.

This broadcast is possible because Truman was too much of a pussy wimp let MacArthur cross the 38th parallel and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China then take the fudgeing wall apart
brick by brick and nuke them back into the fudgeing stone age forever.