DECEMBER 5th, 2008
I’m sitting at Johnny Brusco’s pizza in Auburn with some coworkers the Friday night before the SEC Championship Game. It was two days after Tommy Tuberville had resigned, been half-fired, whatever that truly was, and the Tigers were in the market for a new coach.
After that season, there’s hardly anything football-related that Auburn folks wanted to talk about. We’d had the worst season in a decade on the Plains, and it had been barely a week since the six-game winning streak against Alabama had been broken, so the wounds were still very raw.