I am LSU all the way, but also an SEC fan. I have appreciated Auburn's play over the past number of years. I thought Tubberville was a fine coach. The SEC is particularly bad with firing coaches, although I know it goes on everywhere. My point is, that for most of teh schools, to compete for a championship within the division is a joke. So for teams like Vanderbilt (I know they didn't fire their coach, just saying) or Mississippi, or like Arkansas last year, is just window dressing. Seriously, Housto Nutt, I thought, was one of the best coaches in the country. I always knew when we faced his team, that he would bring a prepared team and that he would fight hard. He would go on forth down, do whatever it took to win. Heck, they beat us last year, a year when we won the National Championship.
At least Vanderbilt finally realized something, and held on to a coach and has actually had relative success in doing so. The second tear teams will not win in the SEC. So every couple years they'll fire there coach just to rejuvinate interest, and then continue losing. Kentucky, Hal Mummy was a good coach. Guess what, they won't win. Ole Miss, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State etc. will not win consistently again Florida, Georgia, LSU, AUburn, Alamama, Tennessee. It just won't happen. And when you realize that you have about 6 teams that could possibly, on any given year, compete for the National Championship, do you really think you'll go through a season unscathed each year. Look at LSU. A pretty good team this year, minus a quaterback, and they lose 5 games.
Tubberville was a damn fine coach. He always shortened the game against LSU and made it go to the end, winning some of those games when LSU had the better teams. I was very surprised to see him get let go. He is solid. I'm surprised Tenessee wasn't interested in him.
Go Tigers!
