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I just recieved this in my Auburn e-mail account, I'll look for a link later. If there is a topic on this already just lock this one.

A Letter From Dr. Walker to Auburn Alumni

By now, most of you have read or seen the news regarding Coach

Tuberville and the Auburn football program. When I met with the Coach

on Monday, we had a frank and extended discussion about his future at

Auburn, my expectations for the football program and the significant

mistakes that were made in the last two weeks. I apologized to the Coach

and to his family for the clumsy manner in which I set about addressing

the football program. I am most pleased he has decided to stay and I

want to assure the Auburn faithful that the Coach has my full support.

I want to take this opportunity to extend my apology to the Auburn

community - alumni, faculty, staff and students. Please know it was

not my intent to violate the unwritten rules of protocol in college

athletics. Now, through oversights, the matter has become a source of

embarrassment for those who most deeply love and care for Auburn.

If there is any good to be found in the situation, it is that Coach

Tuberville and I agree to much more open lines of communication in

the future, and I know we will come out of this stronger than we were.

As I have told many reporters, I am glad to confirm that our program

is in much better shape than it was when Coach Tuberville first arrived.

Our athletes are now true "student" athletes who are here to learn; our

program is clean; our depth of talent rich. Coach Tuberville embraces

positive values and imbues his players with a sense of loyalty and

responsibility.

I believe strongly that just as we hold our academic standards at the

highest level, we should expect no less for all of our athletic programs.

During our meeting, Coach Tuberville and I agreed upon our mutual

expectations for Auburn University's football program. We believe

Auburn should contend consistently for the SEC Championship and be

a perennial contender for the national championship. I have assured the

Coach that I will remain in close communication with him and will help,

if he calls on me, in recruiting players and coaches. I have also assured

him that should I ever want to evaluate the program again, I will call him

first.

I want the Auburn family to know that the errors made here were mine. I

take full responsibility.

Having done so, I believe it is time for the Auburn community to join with

Coach Tuberville and me in looking to the future. We have much to

accomplish in the coming months and years, both on our athletic fields

and in our classrooms and labs.

In fact, there are many accomplishments in which our alumni already

take particular pride. Among them are prudent fiscal responsibility that

has left us in strong enough financial shape to reward and retain our

outstanding faculty; a bond rating that is the highest in Alabama, and

is in fact rated as high as that of the state itself; an ever-higher

quality of faculty research; our 10-year status, reaffirmed this year,

as the most highly ranked public institution in the state; and finally,

improved student ACT scores and the growth of the number of our students

in spite of tuition increases, which indicates a consistently strong

academic reputation and a higher quality of students.

Yes, there remains much to be done, and I intend to continue the

higher work of the office of president, in more unified partnership

with all campus leaders, to meet Auburn's ambitious goals and ongoing

commitment to excellence.

War Eagle!

Sincerely,

William F. Walker,

President

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