Tommy Tuberville sounds off on Big Ten canceling 2020 season: 'Is this communism?'
Former Auburn and Ole Miss coach Tommy Tuberville is running for a senate seat in Alabama.
As he prepares for the election, let’s just say he isn’t a big fan of the NCAA, or of the Big Ten and Pac-12 canceling their fall football seasons.
Appearing on 105.5 WNSP on Wednesday, Tuberville went in on the Big Ten, saying if Nebraska wants to play somewhere else this year, it should be able to (via AL.com):
“The heck with the Big Ten,” Tuberville said. “Is this communism? You can control what everybody is going to do? No. It’s a free country. (Nebraska coach) Scott Frost wants to take his football team to play in the Big 12 and play for a year, so be it.”
Obviously, there are some major hurdles that Nebraska would have to clear to play elsewhere this fall, so we’ll see what becomes of that.
For now, though, it seems like Tuberville will continue to go after the NCAA as he hits the campaign trail.
Tubby is right.
Agreed Tommy 100%
Spot on. Iowa State can play, but Iowa can’t. Falls on leadership.
The NCAA is a very easy target. Same with the Big 10 now.
Tubbs I think has it right. Certainly, decisions have consequences, and I am very interested to see how this all plays out. If Nebraska or any other b10 team want to play, certainly an army of lawyers will be involved. It should be fascinating to see how the NCAA can screw this up. I have the utmost confidence in their ability to do so.
Some of it is communism, but if you have a CONTRACT that your SIGNED and BENEFITED from then NO, you can’t just do what you want! Now if ALL the other YES MEN of the B ONE GEE changed their minds and VOTES to override the Commissioner then that’s a different situation. And why would the Big 12 take them back after they left for “greener” pastures?
The contract was broken by the league, in the Biggest possible way One conference could Goof up. Every team in the Pac and Big 10 that wants to play should have a slam dunk court case to get a court order to allow them to play football. Iowa State, Missouri, Wyoming, Kansas State, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, ought to play at least two games with former Big Ten opponents this fast approaching season.
Communism…Liberalism…progressives; they’re all the same thing, Coach.