Gruden stories as GA at Tennessee

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There's another story attached in the article about playing against Bama and Derrick Thomas and link to full show.

"I mean, if there's a better place to see a game, you (Tressel) might argue Ohio State, but when you go watch Tennessee," started Gruden. "I remember my very first experience there. It was the spring game after they won the Sugar Bowl and they were going to break a world record -- the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people to ever attend a spring football game. Now, Neyland stadium has 99,000 [or] 100,000 fans. So it was the GAs against the full time coaches. I'm a GA, so we run out there. It's the Orange and White game. I'm coaching the White team with the GAs. And they introduce your name -- for the white team, Jon Gruden. I'm like, 'ah dang, this is unbelievable'. It gives you goosebumps running down your veins, man. It was awesome.

"And then, you look around, there's Johnny Majors. Ron Zook is on the staff...Phil Fulmer was the offensive line coach. David Cutcliffe, who was the man at Duke, he was our tight ends coach. We had a hell of a staff, man. And Ken Donahue was Bear Bryant's number one assistant all those years, he was our defensive coordinator. So I was in a football factory, and I loved it, man."
 
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There's another story attached in the article about playing against Bama and Derrick Thomas and link to full show.

"I mean, if there's a better place to see a game, you (Tressel) might argue Ohio State, but when you go watch Tennessee," started Gruden. "I remember my very first experience there. It was the spring game after they won the Sugar Bowl and they were going to break a world record -- the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people to ever attend a spring football game. Now, Neyland stadium has 99,000 [or] 100,000 fans. So it was the GAs against the full time coaches. I'm a GA, so we run out there. It's the Orange and White game. I'm coaching the White team with the GAs. And they introduce your name -- for the white team, Jon Gruden. I'm like, 'ah dang, this is unbelievable'. It gives you goosebumps running down your veins, man. It was awesome.

"And then, you look around, there's Johnny Majors. Ron Zook is on the staff...Phil Fulmer was the offensive line coach. David Cutcliffe, who was the man at Duke, he was our tight ends coach. We had a hell of a staff, man. And Ken Donahue was Bear Bryant's number one assistant all those years, he was our defensive coordinator. So I was in a football factory, and I loved it, man."
that was one heck of a staff for sure
 
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Anyone who still exalts the absolute failure that is Jon Gruden needs their head examined. Best thing to do would be to keep that idiot as far away from Knoxville as humanly possible. Dude is the coaching equivalent of the Ebola virus.
 
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Anyone who still exalts the absolute failure that is Jon Gruden needs their head examined. Best thing to do would be to keep that idiot as far away from Knoxville as humanly possible. Dude is the coaching equivalent of the Ebola virus.
So how do you really feel?
 
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I think Gruden has found his life's calling working at Barstool. Dude is born for that kind of role. Seriously.

He was good on MNF and seemed to enjoy that too, but I don't think he ever could be his full "real" self. Had to button it up a bit.
 
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There's another story attached in the article about playing against Bama and Derrick Thomas and link to full show.

"I mean, if there's a better place to see a game, you (Tressel) might argue Ohio State, but when you go watch Tennessee," started Gruden. "I remember my very first experience there. It was the spring game after they won the Sugar Bowl and they were going to break a world record -- the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people to ever attend a spring football game. Now, Neyland stadium has 99,000 [or] 100,000 fans. So it was the GAs against the full time coaches. I'm a GA, so we run out there. It's the Orange and White game. I'm coaching the White team with the GAs. And they introduce your name -- for the white team, Jon Gruden. I'm like, 'ah dang, this is unbelievable'. It gives you goosebumps running down your veins, man. It was awesome.

"And then, you look around, there's Johnny Majors. Ron Zook is on the staff...Phil Fulmer was the offensive line coach. David Cutcliffe, who was the man at Duke, he was our tight ends coach. We had a hell of a staff, man. And Ken Donahue was Bear Bryant's number one assistant all those years, he was our defensive coordinator. So I was in a football factory, and I loved it, man."
Well, man, like, man, you yanked our chain so GTH, man.
 

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