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For Gods sake please stop the self flagellation Auburn fans!!

People, for Gods sake stop the self flagellation. I understnd the hurt, the grief, the anger and the disappointment, but I have heard more Auburn fans say they are embarrassed to be associated with the University than I can ever remember... and I'm old enough to have lived through the probation/ Barfield days. All I hear is our University sucks and we have no leadership and the President and the AD are buffoons and no one in their right mind would want to coach here. All of which is being parroted by the media making the Univeristy that I love look horrible. Do all of you want to tarnish the reputation of our University across the country just because you disagree with the decision to replace the Head Coach? Because that is what you are doing. DEFEND YOUR ALMA MATER!!!  I know a lot of you are unhappy but you are doing far worse damage to the university by openly railing against it and pointing out how inept the President and AD are. We are being portrayed in the media as spoiled ignorant rednecks with no concept of how lucky we were to have Tommy Tuberville roam the sidelines....and the rest of the SEC loves how we are cutting our own throats. They are laughing and loving it while we implode. Are you worried about losing recruits? Well we aren't helping ourselves by telling the world what a terrible place Auburn is to be and how we have no hope of fielding a competetive team with Tuberville gone and Jacobs/Gogue and Lowder in charge of the University.

I don't understand where this misplaced sense of piety and loyalty to a coach comes from. We aren't Duke or Staford where a 7-5 season is reason to celebrate and you can't expect much more. So many fans act like we are "better" than that to fire a coach after one awful season. Are you kidding me? Auburn is a football school, one of the top 10 revenue producing programs in the country, and we should expect excellence from our program. Tuberville gave us one SEC championship over ten seasons and a slew of good but unremarkable seasons as well. Outside of 2004, his record is decidedly average and in line with a top 20 team but not one that contends for championships. And isn't that what you play for? Listen I didn't agree with Tuberville being replaced either, I thought he should be given at least another year, but he did go an ugly, and awful to watch 5-7 where he could have easily gone 3-9 (Miss St, UT). On the flip side he could have easily gone 9-3 or 10-2. The difference in those games? Coaching, making adjustments and getting your team into position to win. All Tuberville's fault? Of course not, but he was the head coach, and it was his team. This year was bound to happen with the QB situation unsettled and to make matters worse Tubs decided to implement an offense that REQUIRES the QB to excell for it to work. Tuberville had earned to right  to make such a disasterous decision, but I also can't blame the administration for wanting to stop the slide.  The question you need to ask yourself is where does your allegience to Tuberville end and your allegience to your University begin? Tuberville has flirted with every big name school to come down the pike looking for a new coach, either to get a raise or a contract extension, so how would you feel about him if he had left for Texas A&M, Arkansas, Clemson or any of the other rumored suitors over the years? Something tells me we wouldn't be so fond of him. Would you still rather have Tuberville here if we were to land a Spurrier or a Brian Billick to replace him? Again, I bet not.

Well none of those things have happened or are going to happen, but that doesn't mean the right decision wasn't made or that things might be better without Tuberville because what we are looking at is where is our program going forward, not where it was in 2004. We all want to get back to that level of success of 2004 and it is was going to be extremely difficult for Tuberville to do that given his performance on the field the last 2 years. We need someone fresh, enthusiastic and capable of closing the recruiting gap between us and the rest of the SEC big dogs. Is the next guy going to come in and replicate 2004? Probably not, but the last 2 guys we brought in --- when nobody would want to coach here ---- did pretty damn good for a while.

 Here's the deal, coaches will come and go but your Alma Mater will always be there. We need to support Auburn, stop trashing her and the administration. If they make a mistake with the next hire they will be held accountable, but lets not do the dirty work of our enemies for them and trash our university. Lets be proud to be Auburn Tigers, defend the university and support whoever the new coach s but most importantly stop giving the media ammo to bludgeon us with. We face  a hard enough road as it is, we can not do it as a house divided. Like it or not, the Tuberville era is over, long live the new coach. 

We're all just trying to have a good time here. Don't be a jerk, and we won't have a problem with you. War Eagle!

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