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Was Auburn Racist Over Turner Gill? NO! Now SYRACUSE, on the Other Hand...

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician found this 12/19/2008 on bleacherreport.com

Auburn did not refuse to hire Turner Gill because he was black or because he had a white wife. Quite the contrary: Auburn University badly wanted to hire the man. He was high on their list, one of the first persons that they interviewed, and they brought him in hoping to introduce him as their coach that very same day. So what happened? Gill and Auburn had serious disagreements over how the program was to be run. In things ranging from hiring of assistants to general philosophy, Auburn wanted to ...