File photo of former Texas Tech head coach Tommy Tuberville (© LM Otero/AP)

Coach ditches recruits during dinner course to take a different job

12/13/2012

Football players often feel they're just meat to coaches, but Tommy Tuberville could have been more subtle in how he delivered his message. While entertaining Texas Tech recruits at dinner, Tuberville was asked by junior college lineman Devonte Danzey how long he expected to coach there, barring a firing. Tuberville tap danced an answer as the server brought out the entrees, then left for the bathroom, Danzey assumed. Except he never returned. Danzey and his fellow recruits were informed the next morning that Tuberville had jumped to a new job at Cincinnati. Where recruits might be wise to ask him the same question. [Source]

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