I really don’t think he’ll be implicated. At least I hope not…of course, if he is, what happened at Auburn doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen here. Different culture down there and it may have been bigger than him to stop – which is what I think will end up coming out of it. I know we have invovled boosters, but nothing like at Auburn.

a good portion of coaches encounter situations where boosters pass money to players. It would be a very hard thing to control and the best a coach can do is to constantly educate players on the repercussions for accepting money or gifts. I think the line is crossed when a coach or staff member encourages the illegal activity or looks past it. Some boosters tend to think they’re helping a program by passing money and it makes them feel important or possibly a part of the program. Times have changed and more eyes are able to catch this kind of activity especially with today’s technology.

It has never been clear of why Tuberville and Auburn parted ways. I am wondering if he found out it was happening or suspected it was going on but could not stop it and wanted to distance himself from it.

The sense of entitlement some of these players have is so outrageous. I guess they don’t consider their scholarships enough, even though it is the equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars others have to pay out of pocket to get their education.

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And this is all you get from me today. Just been too busy.

As an aside, TSK has an update from the HBO special and lots of other things, including street agent Will Lyles asking TAMU for $80,000 for Patrick Peterson. TAMU declined.

http://www.teamspeedkills.com/2011/3/31/2082514/auburn-hbo-special-chaz-ramsey-cam-newton

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The Rangers played the Round Rock Express at the Dell Diamond last night

Summer and Baseball, Beer and Hot Dogs … have already arrived for me

I wish I did not have to work this weekend otherwise I would go see the Rangers play the Boston Red Sox on opening weekend.

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Therefore, any viable offer will certainly be looked at by her to create every option available. I really can’t fault her for this, plus LSU asked Tech if they could interview her for the job, so it was not kept secret from them, and they obliged. There are some excellent choices available if she does bolt, though. No doubt, she would be leaving the program in a better statusthan she received it, making it much easier for a new coach to continue the improvements already in place.

She’s got some fairly solid competition for the LSU job, so it’s not a given by any stretch she’d leave.

It’s just the nature of college coaching these days. It’s taken me several years to really get my arms around the concept of coaches leaving pretty good situations after 4-5 years, but I am okay with it now. I was furious every off-season when Leach would be linked to openings in years past. I don’t like it, per se, but I accept that the landscape of today is much different than 15 or 20 years ago as far as coaching tenure.

I have read a lot of comments that she is not good for TTU BB, this takes away from that thought to some degree.

I wonder if she would really do it. That is a fine program, one that is currently loaded with talent…and opportunity for wins.

I hope she continues to build at TTU….unless we can hire, say, Gary Blair.

that is so inspiring.

Or did you read something recently that said the contract is signed ?

With or without football, Baron will succeed where others maight fail because of his imense faith.

I don’t know that they have authority to do that.

just came down…..they have to drive maroon suv’s for a year