Published reports kept coming from Alabama that Tuberville had agreed to a deal to leave Ole Miss and become Auburn's coach.
Tuberville kept denying the reports, to his bosses, to us in the media and, worse, to his players.
"They'll have to carry me out of here in a pine box," Tuberville said. He was talking about Oxford. A couple days later he was in Auburn for the press conference. He never told his players so much as "good-bye."