Official Jon Gruden Thread X

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slobberknocker said:
It's all good. Left the corporate world to join my friends who formed a marketing organization focusing on senior related products(Med Adv/Med Supps/LTC). We also have awesome Med Alert system that's GPS based, not tied to landlines. Feels good being my own boss but wallet will suffer for awhile.

Now, go get us Gruden, you can do it.
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Congrats! I'm happy for you.
 
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vol66 said:
What do those guys have to say this fine Vol morning, one full week into the post dooley error?
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Talking Kentucky game so far. John Pennington just said while going to break that the Gruden in-laws are probably laughing their rear ends off at all the rumors.
 
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GmanTN said:
I use the term known based on the source, the source of the info is passed along by the select few. To out the source would be stupid and would cause heads to roll. For those thinking some "insiders" are hiding, that is wishful thinking on your behalf. It does get old defending things when people want to call you a liar or think this is some troll job.
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I understand. I want name my one source just because a few start the berating. My source is not with your groups predictions. We will see. I hope your right. Way past time for a good coach to lead the team back up.
 
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bcartervol98 said:
Maybe reading too much into it but Swain kept laughing and almost seemed like he wanted to say something but didn't. Just never saw that demeanor from him on the show before. Anyone else see that?
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Wow, I didn't mention it but YES! What was that about? What was Hubbs saying when he was trying to control his laughter?
 
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Lexvol said:
I'm still holding strong. I don't think anything has changed. I think silence makes people nuts. We are hearing the exact same things we've been hearing for weeks, yet the dominos still fall.
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Sports source is saying that Gruden needs to public say no
 
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J. Pennington says mid-level boosters and ex-Vols say Gruden is a done deal. His "trusted sources" say it's dead. All of them are surprised at the smoke around the Gruden rumors. Pennington was told on Friday that boosters and Hart shyed away from Gruden over the "power" issue. Hyams thinks the academic issue (mentioned Thornton Center specifically) is what they mean by "power." It's clear that none of them know a damn thing, but they all seem dismissive of the possibility.
 
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jdogvol said:
J. Pennington says mid-level boosters and ex-Vols say Gruden is a done deal. His "trusted sources" say it's dead. All of them are surprised at the smoke around the Gruden rumors. Pennington was told on Friday that boosters and Hart shyed away from Gruden over the "power" issue. Hyams thinks the academic issue (mentioned Thornton Center specifically) is what they mean by "power." It's clear that none of them know a damn thing, but they all seem dismissive of the possibility.
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My guess is that Pennington knows.
 
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This is the tenth (or X) in a running series of JON GRUDEN threads in the Tennessee Coaching RUMORS and SPECULATION forum. Did you not willingly venture into this forum and thread, knowing that RUMORS and SPECULATION about JON GRUDEN would be discussed ad nauseum? If you aren't in this thread because you believe that JON GRUDEN may be the next HC of the Tennessee Volunteers, then why are you in here? If you don't think that JON GRUDEN will be the next HC, then why bother stopping by this thread?

It seems to me that there are four subgroups of people in here:

1) The OG's- I don't know all of them by name, but the primary group of 5-8 have been unwavering from the get go. They don't twist arms, or say "Hey, look at me!" or anything else of that nature. They will (or have) called a troll a troll when it was readily obvious, and have offered evidence/opinion when it wasn't so obvious. Seem to be good guys who are only trying to share what info they gather, and they've stated they'll be here to eat crow, should Gruden not come to UT.

2) Grudenites- Covers most of the others that have frequented this thread, myself included. There are varying levels of Grudenite, from the hardcore (Gruden or Die) to the casual fan who feels that Gruden would be a great HC for UT and they hope he takes the job, but life will go on if he doesn't. No need to bash anyone for feeling however they feel about this, because we all have the capacity of developing our own opinions and reaching our own conclusions, and it should have ZERO impact on you or me.

3) Trolls-They come in and deliberately spread false and/or misleading information. Many of these are apparent on the surface. Some take a little more inspection to identify. Some are merely a nuisance. Others (danomite, SterlingPearling (sp?)) are attention whores and should be banned for espousing their posts as truth once they've been proven as being much less than truth. However, all trolls, through their posts, cast doubt upon the credibility of all information within the thread, thus casting doubt on the poster (OG) of said information. The OG's probably get tired of having to constantly defend their position over and over, which again, HAS NOT CHANGED!

4) Sh*t Stirrers- It seems an appropriate moniker. You don't contribute anything (positive or rebuttal opinion/evidence) to the thread. You don't really seem to care if Gruden winds up being the coach or not. Change out Gruden with Stoops, Fisher, Strong,..... whoever, it wouldn't matter. You'd still be here sticking out your chest, telling everyone how wrong they are. Maybe some mod could make you folks an Official Not Jon Gruden Thread and you could just attack each other all day. May the most self-important poster win.

In short, if RUMORS and SPECULATION about JON GRUDEN maybe becoming the next Head Coach of the Tennessee Volunteers isn't something that catches your interest (meaning that you want to read it and form an opinion), and/or you don't have anything (truths, rebuttals to reported truths, or civil conversation) to actually contribute to the thread, do us all a favor and just carry on with your life, as we will ours.

Flame away.
 
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