Why would Gruden want to come here when he can make $4 million to sit in a booth for ESPN? You'd have to double that to get him here and that won't happen. Why do we want him? He was a graduate assistant. That's the only ties he has to the university. I'm sorry, but this hire doesn't even make sense. Can he coach players that aren't NFL caliber? He won a championship with Dungy's players. In the six years that followed the Super Bowl win, he only made it to the playoffs twice and lost both wild card games.
Can he even recruit? Would he even know how or have the desire to do it? Do you think a Super Bowl ring means that much to a kid. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn't.
Sorry, y'all! We need a coach with the complete college background. This is not the NFL. Give me someone who understands what it takes to mentor kids right out of high school. Big undertaking.
Disclaimer: I thought the Dooley hire was awful, but I grew to respect him. Aside from the free pass he gave Bray, he has more or less rid the team of riffraff and kept the boys out of the newspapers....at the expense of his own success. We wanted a character guy after the Kiffin fiasco. We got it. Let's at least wait until the season's end to put the real estate signs in his yard. He's at least earned that much.
