Bloodrunsorange27
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Didnt butch beat him? No thanks.
Says absolutely no Tampa meeting occurred yesterday. "Ridiculous" and "nonsense". Says Gruden may listen to Tennessee before saying no.
Says the names he hears are Frost, Norvell, Mullen. Says Fuente is out because of a big buyout but then turns around and says Campbell is in play. Also Dave Doeren.
Source told him one of the previous has been interviewed but wouldn't tell him who.
Says nothing is leaking from the UT AD.
If we are passing on a guy because of his buyout, that does not bode well for our search since Fuente is the best coach of that group listed.
Butch had a Top 10 team with multiple NFL picks. Fuente inherited a team that had been .500 in the ACC for 4 years.
Butch went 8-4 and lost to Vandy and USC last year. Fuente won his division and gave national champions Clemson a game in the ACC title game.
Fuente took over a team at Memphis that was losing by 50 to Ark State and losing to UT-Martin and made them into a Top 20 team.
Fuente had more wins against the SEC West than Butch
Fuentes buyout is pretty substantial. I doubt anyone would pay that right now. According to one report, it would be 45 percent higher than the largest buyout paid on record. Then you'd have to pay him and his staff a minimum of 9 or 10 million for him to take the job (seeing as VT would likely offer him an extension to stay). So you're talking about near 16 million total just to acquire Fuentes. While Tennessee may have the money, that's basically unheard of in college football.
Jimmy kind of contradicted himself by saying nothing is leaking from the UT AD, then I would ask how he knows whether a meeting in Tampa did not happen and how does he have these names of candidates?
The only people profitting off the gruden story is the media, becuase they know if they say what UT fans want to hear, vols fans will drool all over it.No he wasn't. I was watching the Sports Source Sunday with him on there and he was clueless about the fact Butch Jones was about to be fired while he's on the show. It took a national guy like Bruce Feldman to break the story.
Jimmy Hyams only knows what he's told. And he's only told something when an agenda is being advanced. Obviously the people at UT wanna get the Gruden story back in the genie bottle considering it'll be 10 days before any coaching hire is officially announced.
So even if Gruden has already agreed to be the next head coach and signed a contract, he can't be announced until the Sunday after the Vandy game. So that means the need for an agent of misinformation. And that just happens to be the dimwitted Jimmy Hyams.
Many will come to dislike Gruden and place him in the "Kiffin Category" if he spurns UT once again. Me included.:rock::rock::rock::rock: