I_Bleed_Orange77
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The agent's statement was simply damage control for Gruden. What makes Gruden look better: 1) We wanted more money than UT was willing to or could come up with, or 2) UT sucks and it was a fantasy that Lord Jon would ever consider coaching there?
Give me a break, if you believe that freaking agent then you deserve what ever misery this gives you.
Just talked to someone close to the situation. I cannot reveal my source in order to protect his identity and keep his job, but he is someone very familiar with the situation....
If you posted anything closely related to this, GTFO.
Listen....I've been in Chattanooga for 20+ years and I have never, ever known of Hargis to tell a falsehood in a story. He is connected with these HS coaches and he knows football. He has his contacts. I'm taken with the fact that he is sticking with his story and not running from it. This stinks alot like the Bama/Saban deal. That took over a month and 4 public denials. Not saying he's coming.....but as a donor and season tix holder....I am terrible disappointed in how this has been handled on a PR front. Too much of a black eye for UT...and I don't like it at all.hargis far more reliable than agent...Again same mode for me ..gruden not a possibility when another coach walks on that stage..timeframe in these threads always had it mid December until someone this week came up with the today PC rumor... and the way they are painting this now is it all started with Hart after Dooley was fired and then if and I do say if gruden comes it is all hart saving the day and gruden finishes whatever MNF games..other contract details for endorsements etc then they name a street after Hart..but ..but if this comes out that he was there to be had as our coach and Hart screwed the pooch ...(it will all come out at some point if that was the case).hargis sources will tell whole story and then excrement hits the fan for someone
Dont worry bout it Jay.You told what u knew and was straight with us all .I believe it will all come out in the end.Keep postingYou are free to have whatever opinion you wish to have. This whole deal is crazy. It looks like there's a full-scale war between boosters and the UT leadership. I really don't know what to think right now. If we hire someone other than Gruden, I'll be here like I said to take whatever.
And everybody was up in arms when ANY OTHER name was mentioned while this circus was going on. Nobody wanted conversation about any other coach except Gruden. Now that Gruden's blown UT off, Hart is either guilty of not making the Gruden hire or sitting on his *** for 2 weeks.
I don't believe for a minute that you can lay all this on UT nor do I think Hart got up this a.m. and decided it was time to begin his search.
I had a feeling that if these talks ended and both sides determined there would never be an agreement you would see some off the wall blanket statements like Lamonte gave today. I didn't expect him to be an ass and call it a fantasy, but this is what I thought would happen if this didnt' go down.
Everyone keep their wits about them, this is not TN's fault. We threw everything we could at Gruden, when it came down to it he is on MNF for God sake and decided to stay there. Hart did his best and we have plenty of great candidates left.
Chill