Sounds Like Tommy Tuberville Is Coming Back

At right: happier days.

Nothing definitive on this yet, but Tommy Tuberville has met with the men in charge of the Auburn athletic department and it sounds like he will return in 2009:

"President Gogue, Jay Jacobs and Coach Tuberville did meet Monday to have their annual end of the season meeting. Further conversations between Jay Jacobs and Coach Tuberville will take place in the following days to discuss Coach Tuberville's plan to make improvements for the program moving forward under his leadership."

That seems to mean "Tubby will be back but his offensive assistants should get in touch with a real estate agent." Most of the speculation around the Auburn job has focused on the need to boot the Tubs friends/cronies (depending on your point of view) on the offensive side of the ball and bring in someone with full reign to install his offense.

A quick survey of the Auburn blogs indicates they're sort of supportive of giving Tubby 2009 but mostly ambivalent. He's #1 on the hot seat going into next year unless Notre Dame holds on to Charlie Weis