Official Jon Gruden Thread XII

[EZE]

I hear a rumbling in the distance. Train is about to come into the station.

WTF is that supposed to mean?

 

[LaagerVol]

Just asking, but why?

Because if Skeeter is right then he can "rub it in the noses" of the OGs. He would rather be right than have a good football team.

 

[EZE]

Hamilton has ruined a lot of us

Indeed.

 

[VOLracerx]

Anything happened the past hour? Or 150 pages ago? We good for gruden or on suicide watch?

Mixed bag...I'm good!

 

[jasonvol18]

Skeeter says time to go to plan B

Not what he said. Plus he works in the AD, believe nothing out of the AD

 

[tallshortvol]

Has the Friday media announcement actually been confirmed? If they're not announcing a new coach what exactly are they announcing?

Also, can Gruden agree to a MOU while still getting Tampa money and/or doing MNF since he doesn't actually sign anything?

 

[LazhilUT]

I can feel it coming in the aaaaaair to(morrow)night...ooooh Loooooord....

I've been waiting for this moment...through all my liiiiiiiiife...ooooh Looooooord....

 

[SandoVOL]

OG is here everyone can boom for a couple pages and then freak out when hyams spews lies again.

Que Hyams in 3... 2... 1...

 

[OddBallVol]

Anything happened the past hour? Or 150 pages ago? We good for gruden or on suicide watch?

both. :wassup:

 

[northknoxvol]

I just hope that all the eggs have not been put in the Gruden basket only for him to smash it at the last minute and leave us begging another Dooley type to take the job..

 

[VolFan32]

Anyone heard anything about a player's meeting Friday afternoon?

 

[247VOL365]

This Jamie caller on TB is awesome!

 

[Wilson27]

And it doesn't change a thing, we wanted the man gone and he is.

Doesn't change anything but a guy that is making MILLIONS off this school should be called out for it.

 

[VOLracerx]

I just hope that all the eggs have been put in the Gruden basket only for him to smash it at the last minute and leave us begging another Dooley type to take the job..

Why would you hope that to happen?

 

[LazhilUT]

“@VolRumorMill: Media room at UT is set up for a press conference.” Hey @wesrucker247, can you confirm or deny this report?

 

[gardners_51609]

Has the Friday media announcement actually been confirmed? If they're not announcing a new coach what exactly are they announcing?

Also, can Gruden agree to a MOU while still getting Tampa money and/or doing MNF since he doesn't actually sign anything?

Nothing has been confirmed, I think this is going back to alleged "ultimatum" that Hart gave Gruden to decide by the end of the week...who knows? the timeline has never been concrete...

 

[jasonvol18]

Meltdown in 3..2..1

Why a meltdown? Its info from the AD so dont buy it.

 

[bam15]

Posted this earlier this morning, but I'll post it again:

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.

He was known as little Walt Harris at UT because he sat in the film room all day.

 

[Kurtastrophe]

If the last post in the Cliff Notes thread is from LWS, that is the most positive sounding information from him that I have seen in regards to Gruden.

 

[Volbrando]

if we don't get gruden... will we be Dooley'd?

 

[ab333]

All in till all out... What do we really know about the Tampa payment schedule? I ask because know that some of these buy out clauses don't follow the terms of the contract( In terms of timeframe) I think Gruden is waiting for the payment just wonder on the timing.

 

[bluetickhound16]

I just hope that all the eggs have been put in the Gruden basket only for him to smash it at the last minute and leave us begging another Dooley type to take the job..

Wut???

 

[GreatWhiteNorth]

Been off for a bit GWN, give me a 3 line update?

Sorry man, just now seeing this. You probably have gotten a grasp of things by now. OGs that have checked in are still solid. Skeeter posted some info that have some questioning things...it's in the cliff notes. Not much new, far as I can tell.

 

[Geronimo]

Has the Friday media announcement actually been confirmed? If they're not announcing a new coach what exactly are they announcing?

Also, can Gruden agree to a MOU while still getting Tampa money and/or doing MNF since he doesn't actually sign anything?

This was my question as well. Can Gruden be announced as next head coach but not start receiving payments until after he has met the requirements of his MNF/Tampa Bay contracts to keep him from losing any money/professional respect?

 

[Smokeyshowl66]

Dangerous

Lack of Institutional Control.

He goes to the NFL no penalties we get hammered.

I can't quote chapter and verse of the NCAA regs, but there is a simple compliance issue here. The NCAA insists that the Board of Trustees have direct involvement and ownership of institutional controls. Yes there will be staff that does the blocking and tackling of compliance activities, but overall control is not something that can be delegated. So imagine this - if UT publically announces they have given their Head Football Coach full institutional control, I suspect you'd be reading the very next day about severe sanctions being handed down from the NCAA for lack of institutional control purely on the basis of hard proof of negligence of duties by the Board of Trustees. It wouldn't take an actual violation. The public statement would be all they need.