Official Jon Gruden Thread XII

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Someone said Finebaum reported that Petrino cannot be hired by law due to the hiring of his mistress...anyone else heard about this?
 
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Here's a nugget:

I was hoping and praying every night that Mike Holmgren would get a head coaching job and maybe call me. At that time I did not want to recruit, which is a large part of what college coaches have to do. I did not want to spend half of my time calling recruits, going out with alumni, and checking on players' grades. I wanted to learn football and coach football. Still, I did work at being a good recruiter for Pacific and Pitt. I knew it was vital to our program, that it was every bit as important as coaching, maybe more important. But, I did not like it at all. I didn't like flying all over the country, getting in a rent-a-car, driving to different high-schools, calling recruiting coordinators, documenting my calls. I didn't learn one damn thing about football while doing that. I felt everybody else in coaching was blowing by me. Everybody else was getting better while I felt I was standing still.

The excitement I got from coaching at the college level was helping to get a play in the game plan and getting it called and seeing it work. It came form helping a young player develop, then watching him get into a game and do well. That was when I felt great. When I went to a high school and was able to get a player to sign a letter of intent, that wasn't as fulfilling as the time as maybe it should have been. That just never turned me on. Some guys are really geeked up to go recruiting. Maybe I will be, too, someday, but I'm not right now.
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tastycar said:
Someone said Finebaum reported that Petrino cannot be hired by law due to the hiring of his mistress...anyone else heard about this?
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To my knowledge this is false, there is no law preventing Petrino from coaching next year if a school hires him. A school would more than likely have a exception in the contract to prevent him from hiring anyone outside of coaching staff without the schools approval just to protect the school from another Arkansas incident.
 
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My big concern is that EVERYONE knows we have a vacancy. Let's assume we are set for Gruden and like folks on here are saying, no interviews have been conducted.

If we don't get Gruden and start interviewing, what coach will actually put his ego aside and say, sure UT, I'm a big time coach and I'll talk to you even though you haven't even considered me until you lost your first pick.

Egos are fragile things and by this point the entire country would know the only reasoned went after a particular coach is because Gruden said no. I see this as major leverage for schools keeping their "proven" coaches (look, they didn't really want you to begin with).
 
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Good morning Grudes!

I wandered in here during Mr. Hyams show yesterday. It was in meltdown mode. I won't make that mistake again. Why is Hyams such a "debbie downer"?
 
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My source, former player, said last night at church that we were still gonna get "our man."

Also, if the stuff posted about the financial aspects of the deal are true, he's coming. We won't lose him over .5 mil for the assistants. Just negotiations, folks.

AV
 
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allvol said:
Good morning Grudes!

I wandered in here during Mr. Hyams show yesterday. It was in meltdown mode. I won't make that mistake again. Why is Hyams such a "debbie downer"?
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Good morning allvol...I think his mommie didn't hold him enough when he was a child
 
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