I am not spreading a smokescreen and I do not have dozens of sources that I trust to share here.
Ok here it is, this is why I am not as confident as before.
A person that would 100% be involved in it if it happened told me the week between Bama and USCjr that he had read the MOU and that it contained an unprecedented compensation package. He stated it was with Gruden's people. The reason I trust this guy is because I know for sure he would be involved if a MOU was drafted. Sunday night I got a text that he needed to come to my business for a meeting the next morning. Before all parties got here we were talking and I got up the nerve to ask about it (since the MOU conversation was between the owner of my business and he, I was just in the room) and he said unequivocally that Gruden had said no, returned the MOU and offer unsigned. He said it had to do with control and how the relationships between the AD and the University here would never allow the type of control he wants. He then said to the best of his knowledge Gruden is off the table.
Could he be wrong, I hope. I am just not going to go online and post everything I hear from everyone I know. Some are FOS, some want to make things up to feel like they are more important than they are.
I do know this:
1. Money is not at all an issue
2. We apparently at least had some sort of verbal acknowledgement that the figures were acceptable or close
3. The snag was not about money but about control
At this point all I can do is sit back and watch. No one else I know is talking about it at all. When I ask they say negative things. The only positivity I have seen with regards to Gruden since last weekend is on the forum.
I am not a smoke screen lol, I am just a fan that wants better than what we have. I am not too deflated because I will readily admit that although I think Gruden would be a great recruiter and face of the program, I think there are several guys in the NCAA right now that would be better "coaches".
The only thing that was depressing me is all those I know are under the assumption Dooley wins out he is back in 2013. Today some started to get back in the mindset he is gone, but I am not as sure of that as I want to be.
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