Given last week's rumors Tuberville flet compelled to speakout prior to today's press conference.  He addressed the rumors about his future with regards to resigning due to his health as well as the rumors about his drive and fire to win.

Check out the two links.  I am sure there will be more to come later this afternoon.

Woodbery's report

http://blog.al.com/auburnbeat/2008/10/tuberville_im_not_a_quitter.html

The Goldmine's report

http://blog.al.com/goldmine/2008/10/tuberville_disputes_rumors_say.html

I know it is nothing more than life in the SEC, another season of upsets, blowouts, and hard-fought games in the trenches.  But this season seems to have a different tone to it.  Take a quick look:

The West:

            -We beat Miss St 3-2, lose to LSU 26-21, beat UT 14-12, lose to Vandy and Arkansas in close games.

            -Ole Miss plays close all year, loses to Vandy, beats UF, loses to S Car, and loses a close one to Bama.

            -Miss St loses to us 3-2, is able to score 24 on LSU in its loss at Tiger Stadium, beats Vandy then gets routed by UT 34-3.

            -Bama blows out Arkansas and UGA but narrowly beats UK and Ole Miss.

            -LSU beats us, handles Miss St, gets blown out by Florida and narrowly beats S Car.

            -Arkansas gets man handled by Bama and plays UF close until the 4th quarter, beats us then loses to UK after UK comes back by scoring 14 unanswered in the 4th.

The East:

            -Florida routs UT, loses a close game to Ole Miss, and was in a close game with Arkansas until the 4th quarter then blows out LSU.

            -UGA narrowly beats S Car, gets blown out by Bama, man handles UT and beats Vandy.

            -S Car narrowly loses to Vandy and Georgia, beats Ole Miss and UK then narrowly loses to LSU.

            -Vandy wins in close games to S Car, Ole Miss & us and leads the SEC east then loses to Miss St and Georgia.

            -UK nearly upsets Bama, loses to S Car, then has to come from behind to beat Arkansas.

            -UT is blown out by Florida, narrowly loses to us, loses to UGA, then routs Miss St.

And those are only conference games, those don't include (to name a few) UT getting beat by lowly UCLA, La Tech and GA Tech beating Miss St, Arkansas' near losses to Western Illinois and La Monroe or Bama's quarrels with Tulane before beating them a week after man handling Clemson.

After seeing who has beat who and in what fashion it made me start thinking this weekend, is the SEC down this year or that good?  And the conclusion I came to is neither and both; huh?.  But rather the SEC is now that deep where no one is safe week to week.  I know that is college football and reason 12546895632458 (to add to a commentor's list earlier this year) that this sport is arguably the best. 

But the fact remains that when the power houses of the last decade are narrowly beating and losing to second tier SEC teams while blowing out fellow powerhouses all while the second tier programs are easily beating each other but are also silent giant killers and easily capable of pulling the upset, that your conference is deep in talent and thus with out argument the toughest in the nation.  Regardless of who your team is (for our visitors) we should all be proud to be apart of this great conference because this is the only conference that gives you a full slate of good games every week, where every team had better bring their A game every week.  You don't get USC - Wazzu, Illinois - Indiana, or an Iowa St - Baylor (no offense, Mr Chizik) game.

So while in the end it is the SEC and some of the results are year to year always close (LSU-AU, UGA-USC, UF-Ole Miss) there have been others.  But again it is the SEC and therefore nothing should come as a surprse.  But this year just has a different tone to it.....at least to me.

Damn I love College Football

War Damn Eagle

After reading Jay's article last week that Auburn suffered irreparable damage after firing Franklin, his article this week about whether Tuberville's job is on the line, all about Bowden's firing from Clemson and last but not least all the internet rumors, I have spent a lot of time this week thinking about where Tuberville really stands.  After thinking about it all week I have come to the conclusion that firing Tuberville would cause irreparable damage.

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Att = 32, Comp = 17, Int = 2, TD = 1

Completion % = 53.1

Passing Yards = 250

Yards/att = 7.8

Year = Juco transfer junior

Opponent = #6 Team in the nation

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Att = 28, Comp = 17, Int = 1 TD = 4

Completion % = 60.7

Passing Yards = 172

Yards/att = 6.1

Year = Junior

Opponent = #5 Team in the nation (at the time)

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For all of you who have already lost hope, please take a look at the following two links.  These are links to Troy's total offensive stats by game for 2006 and 2007.  When looking at these numbers please take note of these four things.

1-With exception to the game at FIU on 12/2/06, after the 10/28/06 game (week 7 - we are half way there now) against North Texas, Franklin's offense doesn't put less than 300 yards a game.  And he had some success before week 7.

2-Total Defense rankings for FSU, GT and Nebraska in 2006.  FSU = 18, GT = 27, and Nebraska = 56.

3-The 2007 losses to @ UF and UGA (same places we played) Troy put up 336 yards at UF to our 326 and 488 yards at UGA (the week before we played them) to our 216 yards.

4-The least amount of total yards Troy gained in 2007 was against UF with 336.  The same UF as stated above that we put up 326 against.

2006 Season

http://www.cfbstats.com/2006/team/716/total/offense/gamelog.html

2007 Season

http://www.cfbstats.com/2007/team/716/total/offense/gamelog.html

So for those already giving up and throwing in the towel be careful what you may be wanting to throw away!!!   And nothing against Troy but obvisouly they dont have the caliber of athletes we have!!!

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