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Can anyone share the story of what went down with the team in 2008
Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:44 am
Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:44 am
Wasn't there a fight between coaches or between a player in coach stemming from disagreements on how the team was playing?
Anyone care to share? I figure a lot of details are now known because it was 7 years ago.
Anyone care to share? I figure a lot of details are now known because it was 7 years ago.
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Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:55 am to AUNashville
All I remember from being in school then where rumors of Tony franklin making racial remarks to players and tubby spending more time duck hunting than recruiting
Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:56 am to AUNashville
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Wasn't there a fight between coaches
Tubs refused to go all in with the spread, there were some disagreements with franklin and the old coaching staff that tubs played favorites with. no fighting that I recall. it was really just the overall morale and needing to move on with all parties involved
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:06 am to AUNashville
This sums it up pretty well.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:20 am to AUNashville
Don't think Franklin was allowed to bring his guys in and had to deal with the coaches that were there before.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:20 am to AUNashville
I was in 11th grade of highschool that year I remember lurking on every single auburn board and reading that franklin supposedly told kodi he'd never be a qb blah blah blah. franklin wears chris todd pajamas blah blah blah following Saturday we lost to arky then got our asses handed to us against wvu and ole miss
next day after Halloween every auburn board had the same thing "Fire tubs and the rest of the bbq gang"
next day after Halloween every auburn board had the same thing "Fire tubs and the rest of the bbq gang"
This post was edited on 10/8/15 at 10:25 am
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:22 am to AUNashville
only time I ever heard a rumor of fighting was during 2012 someone claimed that they supposedly saw chizik. trooper and a few others jawing at each other during a timeout at the ulm game
This post was edited on 10/8/15 at 10:23 am
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:29 am to DuncanIdaho
Ole Tony...
Been pretty successful since his days in Auburn.
Cal is 8th in the country in scoring offense averaging 43 ppg right now.
2009 - MTSU - 23 in scoring; 27 in total
2010 - La Tech - 59 in scoring; 49 in total
2011 - La Tech - 42 in scoring; 51 in total
2012 - La Tech - 1 in scoring; 1 in total
2013 - Cal - 97 in scoring; 34 in total
2014 - Cal - 11 in scoring; 13 in total
2015 - Cal - 8 in scoring; 10 in total
And his QB has been projected to go #2 overall to the Bears in this mock draft.
And this is from pro football focus.
Been pretty successful since his days in Auburn.
Cal is 8th in the country in scoring offense averaging 43 ppg right now.
2009 - MTSU - 23 in scoring; 27 in total
2010 - La Tech - 59 in scoring; 49 in total
2011 - La Tech - 42 in scoring; 51 in total
2012 - La Tech - 1 in scoring; 1 in total
2013 - Cal - 97 in scoring; 34 in total
2014 - Cal - 11 in scoring; 13 in total
2015 - Cal - 8 in scoring; 10 in total
And his QB has been projected to go #2 overall to the Bears in this mock draft.
And this is from pro football focus.
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Right now Goff is the best quarterback in the country, and likely the best quarterback prospect for the 2016 NFL draft. His game is full of positives, and he has all the physical traits you look for.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 11:14 am to AUNashville
No coach bought in to what Franklin was selling. The team saw that, didn't buy in either. Franklin was screwed the day he was hired.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 11:28 am to joeyb147
I think Franklin was wronged. Tuberville basically hired him to call plays, not run an offense and he didn't didn't have any support.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 11:35 am to DuncanIdaho
quote:absolutely
Franklin was wronged.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:01 pm to Rig
OK, fire up the jet and go hire Franklin. I'm ready! Franklin + Muschamp = unstoppable!
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:03 pm to AubieALUMdvm
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Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:12 pm to Rig
Would hav ebeen interesting to see what Franklin could have done given real control. I don't think you can argue that he is a legit O Coordinator
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:31 pm to DuncanIdaho
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I think Franklin was wronged. Tuberville basically hired him to call plays, not run an offense and he didn't didn't have any support.
I think Franklin should NEVER have been hired...
But once hired, he had no chance.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:08 pm to AUNashville
I recall a rumor of Tony Franklin getting punched by either the OLine coach (Hugh Nall?) or maybe an O lineman. It was never confirmed that I am aware of.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:12 pm to AUNashville
IIRC, there was a fight between lee ziemba and a DL (believe it was Antonio Coleman) during preseason practices... during this time, tuberville let media view practices... after all the beat writers wrote on the fight, CTT closed all practices to the media... pissed a bunch of writers off. Guys like finebaum made s huge deal out of it.
It was just like any practice fight... but was blown out of proportion
It was just like any practice fight... but was blown out of proportion
This post was edited on 10/8/15 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:18 pm to AUNashville
Tubbs brought in Tony Franklin and didn't let him bring any assistants. The retained assistants didn't really buy in to the Spread offense with zone blocking. So the offense was pretty bad.
ETA: I guess I should have read what was above. Sorry for the repeat of what has been said over and over.
ETA: I guess I should have read what was above. Sorry for the repeat of what has been said over and over.
This post was edited on 10/8/15 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:41 pm to allin2010
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I think Franklin should NEVER have been hired... But once hired, he had no chance.
He hired him based on the recommendation of one of the other assistants (Gran or Nall or somebody). Tubs supposedly did no research on his own and only had a 15 min interview with him before offering the job.
I think Franklin was also coarse and liked to cuss a little more than Tubs liked too.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:03 pm to Gnar Cat21
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All I remember from being in school then where rumors of Tony franklin making racial remarks to players and tubby spending more time duck hunting than recruiting
I've never heard that. I just heard Franklin had a melt down in the locker room after a game and had words with various coaches. Never heard about any racial slurs.
It was a combination of problems that happened throughout the season. I remember Franklin was on PF's show and gave his side of the story. Wish I could find it because it was an interesting interview.
You have to remember that Franklin has went on to be one of the best OC's in college football since AU. Makes you wonder just how much of it was his fault.
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