Episode 364: A Coach Goes to Congress
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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As a college football coach, he led the Auburn Tigers to five western division titles and one SEC Championship, and he was named the 2004 National Coach of the Year. And he retired as one of the top 50 most winning football coaches of all time. In 2021, he was sworn in as the United States Senator representing the State of Alabama. Newt’s guest is Senator “Coach” Tommy Tuberville.
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| 0:35.8 | On this episode of Newt's World, my guest today has had a legendary career as a college football coach for 40 years |
| 0:42.1 | before being elected to the US Senate by the people of Alabama. |
| 0:45.7 | As a college football coach, he held positions as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator |
| 0:50.8 | at the University of Miami and Texas A&M before being named the head coach at the University of Mississippi. |
| 0:57.3 | In 1998, he was named head coach at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. |
| 1:02.5 | He led the Auburn Tigers to five Western Division titles and one SEC Championship |
| 1:08.7 | and he was named the 2004 National Coach of the Year. |
| 1:13.1 | He has also held head coaching positions at Texas Tech and Cincinnati. |
| 1:18.1 | After the 2016 season, he retired as one of the top 50 most winning football coaches of all time. |
| 1:25.2 | In 2020, he ran for the US Senate in the state of Alabama in one. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, Senator Coach Tommy Tuberville. |
| 1:53.2 | I want to start by just asking you, deep down which title do you like more? |
| 1:57.6 | Coach or Senator? |
| 1:58.8 | I'll definitely coach. |
| 2:00.4 | It rings back over the years of what I grew up really warning to do is be a football coach. |
| 2:05.2 | I thought I was athletic but I wasn't near as athletic as I thought I wasn't when I got to |
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