i’m tired of being looped into to the stupidity of the decisions made for both our university and the athletic department. sir ivan from espn seems to point the finger of blame on the entire auburn nation. i have yet to find an alum that wanted tubs fired. i have yet to find a fan that wanted tubs fired. i’m sure they are out there. we are not philly fans. we don’t boo our players and coaches when things go stray. we are not bama fans and run out a coach when he can’t win a title every other year. (alabama over florida-alabama looses to oklahoma for nat. title) all parties are slightly to blame, some more than others. but, don’t blame me, i am a school teacher, not a bank exec.

Below is the text from an e-mail exchange yesterday with the president of my beloved university….the answer says it all. BTW this same message was sent to Mr. Jacobs.

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I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. We will pass
your note along to the Athletics Director where recommendations
regarding Athletics originate. We appreciate your interest and support
of Auburn.

Jay Gogue

<xxxxxx@hiwaay.net> 12/2/2008 10:31 PM >>>

I do not understand how we can let someone twist in the wind such as
we have let Tommy Tuberville.

Why would he want to coach for us?

Tell the man he is good for next year and that he had better improve.

End of statement end of speculation…end of media garbage.

When you state this – The recruits understand…the coaches
understand…the media understands…the football donations
understand…the public understands.

You guys are insulting our university by not acting…and telling
everybody he will stay.

Dont give the excuses that you are leveraging contracts or bettering
your bargaining position….you are losing in the eyes of the public
and in the eyes of future recruits.

longtimeaufan

TUF – xxxxxx AU graduate 1985 BS Engineering

PS – E-mail with your so called excuses for acting the way you have
for the last month. I was at the lighting of the tree at the capital
building tonight and had to defend my blessed AU to several
people….I was wearing an AU Hoodie proudly!

It’s seemingly apparent Jacobs and Gogue are simply a couple of figureheads, puppets, or even stooges, if you will,…in the operation of Auburn athletics. They both will not stand on their own to exhibit the true leadership Auburn needs,…when Auburn needs it,…and will only do the will of “those” in power. In reading some of Jacob’s comments in the past where he implied he will always “take the bull by the horns” and do whatever is necessary to keep Auburn’s athletics on track, even if it means firing a coach,…well,…he now got to prove his “manhood” by putting a big notch in his belt,…running off a head football coach, despite indication’s Tuberville resigned. Resigned is probably exactly right, though. Wouldn’t you like to have been a fly on the wall during the meetings between Jacobs and Tuberville from Monday through Wednesday and see Tuberville’s expressions on his face and be able to get a glimpse into exactly what Tuberville was thinking and thinking of Jacobs as he sat through those meetings. Tuberville probably struggled to make it to just Wednesday where he finally said “I can’t take this anymore,…I’m out,…it ain’t worth it. I give. It’s all yours.” Tuberville knew what he was dealing with going into those meetings having worked with Jacobs in the past, so he probaby had a pretty good idea where things would end up,…particularly with going into the meeting just off a 5-7 season and a drubbing by Alabama. In other words,…no support and out on an island.

War Eagle!

You didn’t give me a voting option to say B & C. I must say that Gogue has been to shall we say “hands-offish” in this matter especially when looking at Jacobs complete ineptness. Gogue should have taken the bull by the horn and handled this better. But I think it falls in the laps of the BoT and Jacobs the most. There is no way university officials have made contact with anyone without the BoT’s involvement, especially when considering the financial implications that this will cost (i.e. buyout for TT, continuing coaches salaries, search cost, buying out another coach’s contract to bring him here, etc.)

This is a total failure by the AD and a handful of zealot trustees. Now we all get blasted with the media’s broad brush as crazy fans. This is the reason Jacobs and TT should have met last week to clear this up. If TT was unwilling to make any changes, then yes you have to move on. But this has been handled as poorly as possible.

Here they are:

 jgogue@auburn.edu

president@auburn.edu

jacobs@auburn.edu

trustees@auburn.edu

resignlowder.us

SACS has been BOUGHT by the AU BOT !! This loyal alumni and lifetime dues paying member would like to see SACS drop the BOMB on AU Football – DEATH

Mr. Lowder is making the decisions and micromanaging the Athletic Program(s) at Auburn University – any Questions????

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I agree with you guys concerning Jay Jacobs, but I completely disagree with your statements about the president. In my opinion, the president of our university should be spending his time making sure that the academics are exceeding expectations. I do not want the president of our university wasting his time with the athletic department. That is the job of Jay Jacobs. If the president has to get involved in the affairs of athletics, then the president needs to find an AD that can handle the job on his own, without the president having to get involved in that garbage.

I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I am far more concerned with Auburn’s academics having respect, than I am with the athletic department. I doubt that any of us normal people have ever landed a job because of Auburn’s athletics, but hopefully a few of us have been the front runner for a job due to the level of education that we received at Auburn.

These days, the only thing that a collegiate athletic department has in common with their university is the name. Leave the president out of this crap, the only part of his job that he has failed to do is fire Jacobs and make tubby the ad.

If you think that collegiate athletics is more important than collegiate academics, then it is you that lives in a special place. From
 the stand point of academics/professors, this president is very well liked and is doing good things. Yet, you want to fire him because you disagree with a decision regarding athletics. Perhaps you should start paying attention to all of Auburn, instead of just the football program.

 while football is the single largest source of revenue, why don’t you comment on how much of that revenue makes it out of the athletic department and gets shared with the rest of the university.

I am aware of how most presidents interject their opinions into the affairs of athletics, and I think that it is ridiculous. I would love to see auburn win a NC more than anybody, but I’m not going to jump on this “bash the president” bandwagon. Also, I did over state my point when I said the prez should not concern himself with athletics, what I should have said is that he should not stress the athletic department anymore than he does any other department.

Your delusional job description for the president is what managers refer to as micro-managing. Which is a problem that our university already has from it’s board of directors and some alumni. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the soap opera.

Your proposed title change is starting to sound pretty good. Another option is to take it one step further and completely seperate universities from their athletic departments. Then we could get the NCAA out of the picture, and just start referring to collegiate football for what it already is; semi-pro football. The athletes could get paid, and the athletes wouldn’t have to burden themselves with attending classes that most don’t want to attend anyway. But alas, it will never happen because of money.

You implied it by acting like this coaching situation is the most important thing going on at Auburn from the presidents point of view. Not sure why you asked me to get off of my “high horse”, because I didn’t say/suggest anything that would resemble such.

I’ve simply disagreed with your opinion on the prez, and now you’ve resorted to 5th grade insults (panties in a wad).

Face the facts; Lowder and his cronies control our athletic department, and they are willing to fire good presidents if anybody in that position dares to go against them. The best way to prevent those guys from screwing up the entire university as oppose to keeping their damage confined to the AD is to have a president that doesn’t get involved in this crap. Fob James attempted to have Lowder removed from the BOT, and even he couldn’t get it done. So what exactly would the prez be able to achieve by getting involved in this BS other than getting himself fired (which would prevent the rest of the university from having any sort of long term continuity).