Tommy Tuberville had no experience in politics before he announced his run for the U. Senate seat in April Several candidly spoke to Slate about their former coach and his decisions to align with Trump.
And President Trump has no interest in Black males. And so for Coach Tuberville to support someone like that—what does that say about somebody who has always thought this way to make millions of dollars off the same people the president is intending to overlook or mistreat?
I just hope he stands for something that represents the players that played hard for him. If Tommy Tuberville wins his election bid, he will have a lot of work ahead of him in Washington, D. Home NCAA. Before running for office, Tuberville was a football coach for 40 years, starting as a high school assistant in the s and progressing up to college head coaching positions. He also worked as an ESPN analyst in and briefly co-owned a hedge fund.
Of the 11 Alabama Senate post-primary polls in the FiveThirtyEight database , Tuberville is ahead by double digits in nine. If Tuberville is elected, the question will shift from what Tuberville stands for to how he will legislate. The job of politicians is to improve the lives of those they represent, even if they often spew false promises before turning around and serving their own interests.
His first head coaching job came at Ole Miss. He was getting off a plane with an Auburn hat. It felt like a slap in the face. Decades later, the pine box comment still gets brought up routinely.
When asked about it on a radio show in , Tuberville said that Ole Miss was not willing to commit to him and his staff financially. Tuberville left Auburn in This time, his resignation was to the point. Coaching buyouts are reserved for those who get fired, yet Tuberville somehow finagled it so that he quit and got Auburn to pay him millions. Tuberville left Texas Tech in He famously sneaked out of a dinner with recruits so that he could accept a job at Cincinnati.
At his victory party, Tuberville threw mini-footballs to the crowd, with few if any wearing masks on their faces during the pandemic. He thanked conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, whom he described as an inspiration. He also said he would make it his mission to fight "the doctrine of socialism" and "fringe liberals" in Congress. His political rise came because of Trump, who endorsed him, helping Tuberville launch a career in politics despite having no experience in politics or full-time public service.
During the campaign, Tuberville also declined to debate his opponents and became known for avoiding questions from state and national reporters about voter issues.
Tuberville said at his party Tuesday he's become friends with Trump in recent months and got a call from him earlier in the day. President, you all right? The guy doesn't sleep.
In the end, Tuberville essentially parlayed his football fame into a political opportunity in Alabama, where much of the state once hated him simply because he was the leader of the Tigers, the archrival of the Alabama Crimson Tide. On Tuesday, he emphasized the cultural divide again, saying at his victory party that "we don't get enough conservative values taught" in public and private schools.
Such a platform is all he needed against Jones, who was the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in the state in 25 years in , when he defeated controversial GOP candidate Roy Moore in a special election.
At his concession speech Tuesday, Jones said he would reach out to Tuberville to congratulate him. He also stressed his message of "one Alabama" to make the state better.
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