“They’ll have to carry me out of here in a pine box,” then-Ole Miss head coach Tommy Tuberville promised the Rebel fan base toward the end of the 1998 season.
Tuberville, who had come in and brought change to a program that bore the weight of NCAA sanctions in 1995, was rumored as potentially taking the Auburn head coaching position and wanted to assure that he was in Oxford to stay.
However, just days after the 1998 Egg Bowl, Tuberville did not leave Oxford in a casket but on a jet headed for Auburn, Alabama.
Ole Miss fans might remember Tuberville as the man who resurrected a program from the Billy Brewer era of NCAA scandals.