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Expect an announcement Friday.
Jeff Lebo to Auburn
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Put that additional money in the bank, Jeff. You won't last at Auburn long.
Chattanooga's Lebo accepts Auburn job
The Associated Press
4/8/2004, 11:38 a.m.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Chattanooga coach Jeff Lebo accepted the same job at Auburn, a Chattanooga athletic department official said Thursday.
Lebo informed athletic director Steve Sloan of his decision early Thursday, Chattanooga athletics spokesman Jeff Romero told The Associated Press. Romero said Lebo planned to speak to reporters at Auburn in the afternoon.
Lebo, who led the Southern Conference Mocs to a 40-20 record in two seasons, is taking the job left open by the departure of Cliff Ellis.
Lebo couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Hal Baird, athletics assistant to Auburn Interim President Ed Richardson, said when asked about the report Thursday: "I hope what you're hearing is right. I think we're closer."
The Auburn package of about $800,000 is more than double what Lebo makes at Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Lebo, a star at North Carolina, previously was head coach at Tennessee Tech, where his teams won back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference championships. He also worked as an assistant under Eddie Fogler at Vanderbilt and South Carolina.
The coach was interviewed by Richardson Wednesday. Lebo and his wife, Melissa, spent eight hours on Auburn's campus Wednesday, touring Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum and meeting athletic department officials.
Also on Wednesday, Alabama-Birmingham coach Mike Anderson withdrew from consideration. Richardson interviewed Virginia Commonwealth's Jeff Capel on Monday.
Sloan said Wednesday that Lebo's departure would not be a surprise. He told the newspaper that the constant courting of his highest-paid coach by other schools was becoming "disruptive."
Iowa State last May offered Lebo about $700,000 to take that job.
"It's disruptive to him and it's disruptive to us," Sloan said. "You can only go through this a couple of years before everybody gets discombobulated. We do not want to go through this every year. It's tough on everybody, including him."
Sloan said he has a list of four or five possible successors to Lebo.
"I think I've got the same guys on there I had last year," he said.
Chattanooga's Lebo accepts Auburn job
The Associated Press
4/8/2004, 11:38 a.m.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Chattanooga coach Jeff Lebo accepted the same job at Auburn, a Chattanooga athletic department official said Thursday.
Lebo informed athletic director Steve Sloan of his decision early Thursday, Chattanooga athletics spokesman Jeff Romero told The Associated Press. Romero said Lebo planned to speak to reporters at Auburn in the afternoon.
Lebo, who led the Southern Conference Mocs to a 40-20 record in two seasons, is taking the job left open by the departure of Cliff Ellis.
Lebo couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Hal Baird, athletics assistant to Auburn Interim President Ed Richardson, said when asked about the report Thursday: "I hope what you're hearing is right. I think we're closer."
The Auburn package of about $800,000 is more than double what Lebo makes at Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Lebo, a star at North Carolina, previously was head coach at Tennessee Tech, where his teams won back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference championships. He also worked as an assistant under Eddie Fogler at Vanderbilt and South Carolina.
The coach was interviewed by Richardson Wednesday. Lebo and his wife, Melissa, spent eight hours on Auburn's campus Wednesday, touring Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum and meeting athletic department officials.
Also on Wednesday, Alabama-Birmingham coach Mike Anderson withdrew from consideration. Richardson interviewed Virginia Commonwealth's Jeff Capel on Monday.
Sloan said Wednesday that Lebo's departure would not be a surprise. He told the newspaper that the constant courting of his highest-paid coach by other schools was becoming "disruptive."
Iowa State last May offered Lebo about $700,000 to take that job.
"It's disruptive to him and it's disruptive to us," Sloan said. "You can only go through this a couple of years before everybody gets discombobulated. We do not want to go through this every year. It's tough on everybody, including him."
Sloan said he has a list of four or five possible successors to Lebo.
"I think I've got the same guys on there I had last year," he said.
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good luck..you will need it
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hopefully he's given room to get through the early growing pains... if he's given proper time to start Auburn's turnaround it can happen, but I have a feeling the trigger will be pulled quick if he doesn't winDaveW said:
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that will be the least of his worries. Auburn might have the most fucked up BOT/Adminstration of any school....and they have loudmouth Charles Barkley to boot.
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I'm happy Capel didn't get that job...I think something better will come for him in the future.
