Former Auburn coach Sen. Tommy Tuberville offers advice to incoming NFL Draft prospects
Former Auburn coach Sen. Tommy Tuberville offers advice to incoming NFL Draft prospects
Tuberville ran for the Senate seat in Alabama in 2020 but is best known for his time at Auburn where he served as head coach from 1998 until 2008
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., offered some advice to the incoming NFL Draft class this week.
The former Auburn Tigers football coach told TMZ Sports this week that while it’s “fine” for everyone to have their own opinions, athletes should stick to what they know best.
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“I think people should downplay politics more, be more involved in what they do,” he told the outlet. “Everybody wants to make an opinion and that’s fine, but, I think, especially for young people to get involved in something that maybe they might not understand as much, I think they need to let people that, whatever they do for a living, justify it.”
When asked if “outspoken” players can be a turnoff for teams, the senator said that players need to be “careful” about what they post on social media.
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“Not be quiet, just be careful,” he said before adding, “talk about what you know about. Be gentle with your speech. Also treat people with humility, nobody’s looking for an outspoken person. We’re too divided as it is.”
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He added that his hope is to see the “country be more settled down in terms of people getting into politics or in sports and vice versa.”
Tuberville ran for the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama in 2020 and defeated Democrat incumbent Doug Jones.
He began his coaching career in 1980 as an assistant at Arkansas State University before getting the head coaching position at Ole Miss in 1994 but he is best known for his time at Auburn where he served as head coach from 1998 until 2008.
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The 2021 NFL Draft is set to kick off with the first round starting Thursday at 8 p.m. ET in Cleveland, Ohio.
Paulina Dedaj is a Sports Reporter for Fox News and FOX Business. Follow her on Twitter @PaulinaDedaj.
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ILuvHaters2021
3 hours ago
Amen. You know there’s someone out there that needed to hear this. Personally, in the last 2 years I have completely given up watching pro sports and have been very happy with that decision.
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ILuvHaters2021
1 hour ago
This is great advice. The best beneficiary of this wisdom would be Sen. Tuberville himself- by resigning from his seat and keeping his ignorant mouth shut he would immediately improve the average knowledge base of the Senate in law and political philosophy by 1%.
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ILuvHaters2021
2 hours ago
Think about this for a second…..hey you….football player….stay out of the big boys room and stick to what you do best. Leave politics to the adults in the room…like me….your Coach.
The hypocrisy just oozes all over this……
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BobM267
2 hours ago
Finally, some wise, very wise advice. Today, many athletic prospects are under the impression we care about what they are thinking. Sorry. Injecting politics into sports is a serious mistake. They can lose half their fan base. Not a good business plan. Just look at Kaepernick. He paid a heavy price.
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payman
3 hours ago
Tommy is my representative, looking for good things from him in the future. I agree, leave politics out of sports we all watch for entertainment and escape from all this.
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payman
3 hours ago
Too late for that. Tommy was a sports coach and because he was well know as such he became a senator. It wasn’t about his brains that’s for sure.
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PleaseDoSomeResearch
2 hours ago
Hilarious. He doesn’t want “young people to get involved in something that maybe they might not understand as much”.
This is coming from the Senator that didn’t know the three branches of government.
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Skihunter
3 hours ago
Let them talk all they want, we’re not watching the nfl anymore.
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seattle13210
3 hours ago
Sports are for entertainment only. No one cares what an athlete thinks.
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seattle13210
2 hours ago
I do.
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seattle13210
2 hours ago
We need not care what a football coach thinks either.
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deliverusfrom46
2 hours ago
If anyone wants to spread wokeness, do us all a favor and run for office but stay off the field.
Most of us enjoy watching sports. Very few of us want to see a political message.
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deliverusfrom46
1 hour ago
The LAST thing we all need is more “woke” politicians.
The term itself is very misleading, because all of these “woke” people are actually fast asleep.
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thejanitor99929
2 hours ago
I was a 45 year fan, loved the NFL opening day like Christmas morning.
NFL kneeled not once but twice, now I have nothing but hate for the NFL.
Go Bankrupt NFL
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thejanitor99929
2 hours ago
Why do you care so much? Has it affected your life or living standards in anyway? Just turn the game on at kickoff and bam just football
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jjmurray739
2 hours ago
Good advice! What people forget is that a football team is not some socially and politically monolithic entity where everyone believes the same thing beyond “We need to win”. So when someone decides to kneel down, what is that doing in the locker room to those who disagree with the person kneeling? Notice the press never looked at this angle. They praised and flattered the kneelers, but NEVER did they ask the other members of the team who did not kneel what they thought, what their opinion was, or what kind of friction the actions of the kneelers brought into the locker room.
I can tell you that it DID bring in friction between the players, it is inevitable. And what does that do to the team cohesion on the field? It certainly doesn’t help and it likely amplifies things that normally would not be a problem. Say your QB doesn’t kneel but one receiver does and another doesn’t. Turns out during the game the one who didn’t kneel got more passes thrown his way. Is the kneeling player going to think he didn’t get as many passes because he kneeled when in reality they just covered him better?
You have a right to your political opinion but should always remember the old adage. Two things you don’t discuss at the dinner table — religion and politics. That applies to the work place as well.
