Gruden to Colorado

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If UT can't get him then no college team will. After all, he owns land near Knoxville and his wife was a UT cheerleader. Of course he has a stable job in TB now so it's just a pipe dream
 
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VolDad said:
Fulmer must have passed on the opportunity making way for Gruden.
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Colorado emailed its resume and cover letter to Phil, but he has yet to review it. If he does, and he likes what he sees, he may consider flying them down to Winchester for an interview.
 
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utvolpj said:
If UT can't get him then no college team will. After all, he owns land near Knoxville and his wife was a UT cheerleader. Of course he has a stable job in TB now so it's just a pipe dream
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Pretty much.

The only college teams that might have a chance are Florida, Florida State and Miami. Gruden still resides in Tampa.

They'd have to offer him like 8 million for him to even consider it though and even then I doubt he'd do it. I'm not even sure he'd take the Cowboys job for that. That's a lot of stress and little job security.

He is already making 4.3 million a year commentating and I'm guessing the job is his as long as he doesn't screw up outside of work.

I highly doubt he'd walk away from such a sweet gig. Definitely not for Colorado.
 
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Gruden very much wants to master the spread offense in the college game and transplant it to the NFL. He has been to Oregon's practices on numerous occasions and seems to pick Chip Kelly's brain, and said he almost took the job as Oregon's OC until his wife put the kibosh on it.

We will see him as a college coach some time in the near future, the question is when and where?
 
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Zenitram said:
Gruden very much wants to master the spread offense in the college game and transplant it to the NFL. He has been to Oregon's practices on numerous occasions and seems to pick Chip Kelly's brain, and said he almost took the job as Oregon's OC until his wife put the kibosh on it.

We will see him as a college coach some time in the near future, the question is when and where?
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He was blowing smoke if those words ever came out of his mouth.

Nobody in their right mind is going to pass on head coaching jobs and then proceed to walk away from 4.3 million a year to be a college offensive coordinator.

He almost took the job... and Nick Saban wasn't going to take the Alabama job.
 
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Zenitram said:
Gruden very much wants to master the spread offense in the college game and transplant it to the NFL. He has been to Oregon's practices on numerous occasions and seems to pick Chip Kelly's brain, and said he almost took the job as Oregon's OC until his wife put the kibosh on it.

We will see him as a college coach some time in the near future, the question is when and where?
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Wow, that is almost too good to be true. And I mean that.
 
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"“I was so eager to learn it, I almost took the job,” said Gruden, who turned down a shot to become Kelly’s offensive coordinator to become an ESPN analyst. “My wife said, ‘Are you the craziest human being alive, you want to move to Oregon to learn an offense?’

“I said: ‘But Cindy, it’s the Oregon spread. It’s unbelievable.’ She didn’t see it from my point of view.” "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/02oregon.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

He turned the job down in mid-2009. This is a recent article, I don't know why he would still be trying to blow smoke. He still maintains a relationship with Oregon and gave a speech at a camp in Eugene that was going on while he was in town. Good guy, I wish him success wherever he goes.
 
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Gruden also nearly came to UT to be a grad assistant for Kiffin. Was going to pursue a degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
 
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Zenitram said:
"“I was so eager to learn it, I almost took the job,” said Gruden, who turned down a shot to become Kelly’s offensive coordinator to become an ESPN analyst. “My wife said, ‘Are you the craziest human being alive, you want to move to Oregon to learn an offense?’

“I said: ‘But Cindy, it’s the Oregon spread. It’s unbelievable.’ She didn’t see it from my point of view.” "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/sports/ncaafootball/02oregon.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
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He was blowing smoke if those words ever came out of his mouth.

He almost took the job... and Nick Saban wasn't going to take the Alabama job.
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I still believe Gruden was blowing smoke.

Saban's exact words... "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."
 
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Adding to that...

Ken Goe of The Oregonian said, "Pardon me if I'm skeptical of the notion that Jon Gruden ever seriously considered becoming Oregon's offensive coordinator. But I love UO coach Chip Kelly's willingness to swing for the fences."

Even an Oregon writer didn't believe Jon Gruden would have taken the job.
 
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Believe it or don't, the point I was trying to make is that he seems to have a vision of making the college spread offenses a bit more rampant in the NFL. We are already seeing influences with the Wildcat and the Patriots' shotgun-heavy packages.
 
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wildcat is all but dead in the nfl. does anyone even still run it on a regular basis?
 
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Zenitram said:
Believe it or don't, the point I was trying to make is that he seems to have a vision of making the college spread offenses a bit more rampant in the NFL. We are already seeing influences with the Wildcat and the Patriots' shotgun-heavy packages.
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Maybe he was thinking about it for a future in the college game? Just speculating, have no idea if there's truth to that.
 
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kev20 said:
wildcat is all but dead in the nfl. does anyone even still run it on a regular basis?
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There's probably a good reason for that. As much as people love to call the spread option or the wildcat 'the great equalizer' or the 'future of football' while pointing to Oregon as an argument, it still doesn't make it a great option for the NFL. This year may be a bad example, but put Oregon up against some of the better defenses most year and they likely struggle mightily, like they did against OSU last year.

Oregon is winning games by ridiculous margins. Right now, it's 37 points a game, which is more than the average margin of victory of the 2001 Canes and the 1995 Huskers, who are considered to be two of the best teams of all time. Considering they may not have the toughest of opponents in the national title game, they could finish with a margin of victory so high that they're considered one of the greatest teams ever. I wouldn't be stunned if it happened, and it would be sickening, because they would run into a brick wall against the 2001 Canes, and I don't even think they would beat any national champion except maybe the 2002 Buckeyes and 2007 Tigers.
 
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