Macgruder... I read you hypothesis,
good post,
continually bring attention to yourself and that is kinda
but who and what are you promoting here? you annoying to some..
hmy:
Sadly, and I know it won't come off as anything but unflattering, I'm promoting to stop listening to the OGs. The main "thesis", if you will, of my whole thread is that the story is too big, and got too hot, that you seriously can't trust anyone at this point (I guess that includes myself).
Even the people with similar mindsets as my own, regarding Gruden, I see rushing back for any/every word that the OGs will say, which again without smearing them are often vague and need multiple postings to even get a true sense of, when in reality - it's reached the point that what they're suggesting is no longer believable. We can either believe (most) of them and that Gruden was the guy from the start, and things went up to the point that he was nearly signed, but something killed it - (yet still we're being strung along with a tiny amount of hope without any substantial reason as to why other than, again, vague, remarks about battles between nameless AD members, boosters, and Hart)....
Or, you can believe the theory that a few others and myself share that this was the plan all along (and, initially what I believed several of the OGs to believe as well). I don't want to take credit for it, as it's not self-promoting. This is obviously a new-account, and will disappear if this hire doesn't happen. But, I want people who come on these forums to look for "inside" information to do just that - look "inside" if you will - your own rationality, your own thoughts to the media we turn to when we often know they're simply money-puppets for the people that pay them. I feel like some theories I've worked over the last couple of days, mixed with some theories of a few other solid posters have painted a pretty decent narrative of the most likely way this situation has gone, and will go, assuming Gruden is a possibility.
To me, it's much more believable than last-minute squabbles between millionaires over pennies in assistant-staff salaries, control issues in a division that has Nick Saban and Les Miles in pack, or a guy that just figured out 3 days ago that the college game may be too much for him, as he polishes his Super Bowl ring and laughs at the NFL offers he's rejected since 2008.
Again, I may come off as self-serving, but I'm just a Grudenite. I wasn't even an account a week ago. I just want to push my theory, that I believe is sound, onto other folks who still believe in the same thing as me - but who might be clouded up in all the smokescreening and hooplah that has come out, directly for that reason, over the last two days. If they like what I'm claiming, great. If not, throw it back. No harm, no foul.
And actually, thank you Coasty, for even pulling that card on me. I didn't make my initial post to garner any real kind of attention, rather just make a blanket statement of the last 5-6 posts I've made in these Gruden threads, but since you've mentioned it, and the feedback I've gotten, it has gotten to my head a little. I am human, and I will definitely try to tone that back. Like I said, I'm only after the truth in all this - no heroism, no "I told you so's", no "your sources were wrong!", just an opportunity to cut through some of the BS and try to guess to what's really happening.
