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I Believe in Auburn… and Lubbock: Tuberville takes Texas Tech job, space-time continuum in jeopardy
TWILIGHT ZONE, Universe (TWER)– Earlier today, Tommy Tuberville flew over the radar-screen cotton fields of West Texas en route to a new job and a new life, just like I did 16 months ago, a teary-eyed decision that cost me a press pass to SEC Media Days, inspired blog posts titled “Loveliest Village of the Llano Estacado” and the original “I Believe in Auburn… and Lubbock” and which has apparently opened a worm hole.
This is not 2008
I’ve read it in various forms across the orange-and-blue tinted corners of the Internet, here at TWER and elsewhere, the ultimate sigh of disappointment over Auburn’s struggles of the past three weeks, maybe not always verbatim but certainly in spirit:
This is 2008 all over again.
No, it’s not.
Notes from the Beat: Pybus out
Hey, you know at which position Auburn would just love to have an experienced backup lost for the year? Linebacker, of course! And huzzah, wouldn’t you know it: The Tigers might be without two scholarship linebackers for quite some time. Sophomore Spencer Pybus continues to have medical issues stemming from a preseason concussion and will […]