From an Auburn message board:
Alright here is as much as I know from my sources these aren't the fake sources you hear people refer to on the radio. Tuesday morning at practice Franklin went nuts, beyond what you read in the paper, not only was he running around like a nut on the practice field but he would not allow any of the assistants to coach their positions, he was trying to do everything. In the offensive meeting that same day he really goes crazy a$$ nuts (a good friend of Franklin's said he thinks Tony just lost it, like needs to go talk to somebody lost it), he starts cussing out the players in particular he calls Kodi Burns out in front of everyone and says "Burns if you were worth a sh*t you'd be playing, but your not!" He apparently became so hostile to a particular linem an that he and the lineman were restrained. When this occurs one of the assistant coaches tells him to calm down and Franklin says "Fk you! Go tell Tubs, I don't give a fk what he says, this is my offense!"
All of this is occurring while Tubs is in his CEO bubble doing his press conference other duties. When the assistants make Tub aware of what took place at practice Tubs calls Franklin and tells him to meet him first thing Wednesday morning in his office. Wednesday morning Tubs tells Franklin he understands the stress but he will not tolerate talking to the players on a personal level like that. Franklin raises his voice to Tubs questioning how he runs the program.
Tubs then tells him to go to his office, get his stuff and get lost.
You might interpret this as a save face for Tubs version of the story but most of this came from a players Dad (the lineman that almost came to blows with Franklin) and a coach who is a good, good friend of Franklins. His last statement to me was "This is all on Tubs, I told him last year that while Franklin is a good friend he should not hire him there was no way he was going to be able to work with that staff."
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