Tuberville named in $1.7M fraud lawsuit

Texas Tech is in the middle of its third spring practice under Tommy Tuberville. But no matter how well the Red Raiders may be doing on the Lubbock practice fields, it’s been a tough month for Tuberville away from football.

A police investigation into Tuberville’s wife, Suzanne Tuberville, following the death of an 87-year-old man who was injured in a November accident in which Suzanne was involved only reportedly closed Monday. Tuberville’s legal stress isn’t going away anytime soon, though: the Huntsville (Ala.) Times reported Tuesday that Tuberville is near the center of a lawsuit alleging more than $1.7 million worth of fraud on the part of Tuberville and his investment partners at the hedge fund TS Capital Partners.

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2.29.12

Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville has all sorts of respect for TCU.

First of all, he hired secondary coach Chad Glasgowfrom the Frogs to run his defense. Second, he opted to bow out of a nonconference game against TCU when the Big 12 went to a nine-game conference schedule.

“Obviously for us, we’re going to be a very young team coming in,” Tuberville said of the decision to cut a planned game against the Frogs that was scheduled for Sept. 10. “That’s really probably not the type of team we want to play right now.”

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7.27.11

Two things stand out from those (Tommy Tuberville’s) comments.

1)  “It’s gonna be a tough challenge the next couple of years getting it to where we want to get it to.”

Tuberville inherited a program from the winningest coach in Texas Tech history not just in football, but in all sports at the school. (Mike Leach.) The 2010 team Tuberville led to a barely bowl-eligible season had 14 returning starters, including eight on offense.

Leach’s final season the Red Raiders had the highest graduation rate of any major college football program in the country…

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3.24.11

LUBBOCK, Texas — A $500,000-per-year pay raise recently awarded Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville through 2015 has angered some university faculty members, who have been asked to take a pay freeze in 2011.

Facing an 8 percent state funding reduction and with more funding cuts possible, Tech officials killed $3 million in faculty raises for 2011. However, Tuberville’s new five-year, $11 million contract guarantees the coach at least $2 million per year. That’s up from $1.5 million in the contract he signed in 2010.

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2.21.11

Listen to Bo and coach Tuberville talk about recruiting, Texas Tech’s strengths and coach Tuberville’s philosophy about evaluating talent.

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“It’s essential that you have an 80-90 percent rate of kids that come in and maybe they’re not be great players, but they can contribute to wins at your school,” Tuberville said.

He estimates that about half of his 27 signees will have a chance to either start or be in the rotation as freshmen.

This year, Tuberville didn’t have to hear questions about whether he’d throw the ball.

At his post-signing day rallies in Dallas and Houston last year, it seemed like that’s all boosters and alums wanted to know.

“And I said, listen, do I look stupid?” Tuberville said. “We’re going to take the players we’ve got and do what we need to do to be successful. We’re going to run it a little bit more, but we’re going to try to do whatever we can to keep what you’ve built here in the last few years.”

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2.16.11