Auburn football: Twitter reacts to Tommy Tuberville-Georgia Tech suggestion
With Georgia Tech dismissing Geoff Collins on Sunday, September 25 following a loss to UCF on Saturday, Yellow Jackets fans are scrambling to figure out who could replace him. One fan had the suggestion to bring former Auburn football Head Coach Tommy Tuberville out of retirement — and boy were the reactions chuckle-worthy.
Tuberville, as every Alabamian reading this knows, is Alabama’s junior United States senator. He may be retired from being a college football coach, but he is very much still working for his constituents at the national level.
The idea that he’d give up a high-profile and powerful job in the state that made him a legend to join a flailing program in Atlanta that hasn’t been bowl eligible since the 2018 season — when Paul Johnson was still running the show and before Collins made them a perennial 3-win team — is a laughable one.
Lo and behold, there was Twitter, laughing at the suggestion made by a Yellow Jackets fan that is either down real bad and throwing everything at the wall to feel something or is simply delusional.
Twitter has a field day with the suggestion Georgia Tech can lure former Auburn football HC Tommy Tuberville away from the U.S. Senate
The ridiculousness of this message board suggestion isn’t something to harp on too much, since there’s a more likely chance AU alum Kay Ivey would suit up under center for Auburn football this season.
These responses, which range from rude to hilarious, are definitely worth spending some time digesting instead:
If he had an itch, he’d be Auburn’s AD. So dream on 😂
— Harrison Estes (@Harrison_Estes_) September 25, 2022
They need to start drug testing on the GT board
— Treadmill Horse (@treadmillhorse) September 26, 2022
YES PLEASE. MAKE IT HAPPEN @ Georgia Tech.
— Auburn Blazer (@AuburnBlazer) September 26, 2022
This is why Ga. Tech is the fourth best FBS school in the state.
— ONWARD CHRISTIAN LAETTNER! (@WrightBlan) September 25, 2022
I love/hate message boards 😅
— McLovin (@OneNameLikeSeal) September 25, 2022
Obviously wanting a more conservative playbook.
— Rev. Dysentery Bradshaw, MD, (@t8thompson) September 25, 2022
No. Just no. An absolute disaster and I wouldn’t wish it on another fan base. There has to be an up and coming assistant with a knack for recruiting. You don’t want the mess Tuberville left in Lubbock.
— Paul Tubbs 🌵🏜🏴☠️ (@PaulTubbs_SPT) September 26, 2022
I'm pretty sure the senate has more crowd noise than Bobby Dodd https://t.co/EWh79ruQs0
— GAbarner (@gabarner) September 26, 2022
For a school of engineers we have some moronic fans lol https://t.co/luRPJTbmlK
— Max Williams (@Maxxwil) September 26, 2022
Make Georgia Tech Great Again? https://t.co/yL7HNX6yPV
— Keith Gill’s Burner Phone (@TheSBCcommish) September 26, 2022
Deion Sanders has been tabbed as a potential option for Georgia Tech, though Auburn football is a more likely destination for ‘Prime Time.’