Tommy Tuberville considering a run for Alabama governor

College football coaches and politicians have a fair amount in common, so Tommy Tuberville may foresee a seamless transition from one to the other.

Since posting a nice 85-40 record over 10 seasons as head coach at Auburn (1999-2008), Tommy Tuberville has not replicated those results at Texas Tech and Cincinnati (49-41 over seven combined seasons). A particularly dismal 4-8 2016 campaign at Cincinnati led to his resignation, and now Tuberville may be looking outside the box for his next career move.

According to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports, Tuberville is considering a run for governor of Alabama. He obviously would not be the first person to game fame in another area to run for political office. There’s even history of notable outsiders winning a gubernatorial race, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse “The Body” Ventura winning in California and Minnesota most recently. But Ventura had added some political experience to his WWF (WWE) resume, serving as mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota in early 1990’s.

But Dodd’s article cited the words of Alabama Republican Party chairwoman Terry Lathan, which serve as new inspiration for political outsiders.

"“Two words — Donald Trump,”"

Trump’s win in the presidential election prove that it does not require great qualifications, or a deep political resume, to win an election right now. For better or worse, he will be in the White House for the next four years and political convention will mostly be out the window.

Tuberville’s camp is reportedly doing a phone poll of approximately 50,000 people to see how viable a run for governor is, and Dodd suggests a decision one way or the other will come fairly soon.

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It’s worth wondering what the first question, or two, of such a poll might be. I’d like to take a guess. “Are you, or is anyone in your household, a college football fan?” Yes, ok, then-“Alabama or Auburn?”