Franklin firing rumor (what happened)

carlege — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:51:40 -0000

Tuesday morning
at practice Franklin went nuts, beyond what you read in the paper,
not only was he running around like a nut on the practice field but
he would not allow any of the assistants to coach their positions, he
was trying to do everything. In the offensive meeting that same day
he really goes crazy a$$ nuts (a good friend of Franklin's said he
thinks Tony just lost it, like needs to go talk to somebody lost it),
he starts cussing out the players…in particular he calls Kodi Burns
out in front of everyone and says "Burns if you were worth a sh*t
you'd be playing, but your not!" He apparently became so hostile to a
particular lineman that he and the lineman were restrained. When this
occurs one of the assistant coaches tells him to calm down and
Franklin says "Fk you! Go tell Tubs, I don't give a fk what he says,
this is my offense!"

All of this is occurring while Tubs is in his CEO bubble…doing his
press conference other duties. When the assistants make Tub aware of
what took place at practice Tubs calls Franklin and tells him to meet
him first thing Wednesday morning in his office. Wednesday morning
Tubs tells Franklin he understands the stress but he will not
tolerate talking to the players on a personal level like that.
Franklin raises his voice to Tubs questioning how he runs the
program…Tubs then tells him to go to his office, get his stuff and
get lost.

You might interpret this as a save face for Tubs version of the story
but most of this came from a players Dad (the lineman that almost
came to blows with Franklin) and a coach who is a good, good friend
of Franklins. His last statement to me was…"This is all on Tubs, I
told him last year that while Franklin is a good friend he should not
hire him…there was no way he was going to be able to work with that
staff.""

(This story seems to make sense just thought i would share)

Kodi Burns will play against LSU

carlege — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:31:37 -0000

Just announced Kodi Burns will get 50% of the snaps. Listening to WJOX in Birmingham minutes ago. They reported that kodi spoke with tommy and he was told that he would get at least 50% of the snaps in the LSU game. This was a result of him not getting a chance to play during the mississippi state game where he was told they would use him. Personally im happy about this decision hopefully it will work out and show us how good Kodi can be.

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Franklin firing rumor (what happened)

Kodi Burns will play against LSU