Official Jon Gruden Thread XLIV

[Geronimo]

The beaver is our new coach.

I'm good with that. At least media days would be fun again.

 

[Gary10ec1]

Went fishing for a white 🐋 and all that was biting was a mullet.

 

[peerless98]

I'm good with that. At least media days would be fun again.

I wouldn't understand all the code and fancy Scotch talk and so and so begat so and so and so forth.......

 

[UCVOL]

The Gruden deal is still hanging on by a "thread".

 

[tastycar]

Welcome to The University of Tennessee...where coaching careers go to die.

That is the saddest sentence but yet it made me laugh out loud. Now I'm sad again

 

[Godfatha]

I absolutely think he would be coaching here this year if we didn't have Mo, Larry and fawking Curly running the show up there.

Give me Alabama's Administration, and Jon is recruiting Friday.

To hell with anybody that thinks I'm crazy. Boon!

That's what sucks about all of this. I really think there was something there.

 

[Wild @s a Mink]

My buddy closed on his house...😬



Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood in here a bit...🤣

Imagine this is your head...

 

[volinjackson]

Considering where we were two days ago, Gundy would be an amazing hire. I honestly thought we would be hiring an assistant from somewhere who was desperate for a HC job.

Gundy is the real deal folks. The only reason he wasn't on my short list weeks ago was I didn't think he was in play.

This is the attitude that the Haslams are shooting for.

 

[undertakervol]

I absolutely think he would be coaching here this year if we didn't have Mo, Larry and fawking Curly running the show up there.

Give me Alabama's Administration, and Jon is recruiting Friday.

To hell with anybody that thinks I'm crazy. Boon!

This administration makes moe, Larry, and Curley, look like Einstein.

 

[Hawkpilot]

How's it going Hawk? How were the seats?

Even if he hires Gruden, I'm thinking Currie can kiss my azz.

I've sent my emails to DiPietro, as far back as the AD search (alot of good that did); on Nov 8th to the Alumni Affairs Mook asking me for more $$; and recently to Davenport, et.al.

After over 30+ years of donations and season tix, I may be done.

Seats were amazing. As you predicted. AV is a class act.

I don't know how many more acts this play has but I think it's about played out. I just hope we want a curtain call when it's all done.

 

[revjayp]

The 1/4 thing was just chatter on here. Show one credible outlet that said this.

Gotcha. I know the cuts are real. I thought someone had posted it. My bad.

 

[MaTaLa]

Well, I'm still Gruden till it's not but the light seems to be fading and distant.

I'm gonna miss the vibe that was going in here for a few weeks, whatever the outcome.
Hell, I'm missing it already

 

[ER Vol]

(1) May not be similar money--ESPN may reduce his salary
(2) He just may want to coach at UT. We just don't know
(3) Gruden, by all accounts, is a workaholic. That is probably not an issue.

If you asked me if I would coach a MLB team for what I'm making now working on avg about 4 hrs. a week, I would jump at coaching the baseball team. So, money may not be the motivator.

But, one point you made is valid. He may not want to coach college, but I don't think he has ever said that. All he has said is he would have your program on probation because he would want to work with players more than the NCAA allows.

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I have been all Gruden from the start, but at some point we need to realize that just because we want him as our coach doesn't mean he wants to do it. Also does not lessen his love for UT. Just a life choice we all make every day, everyone has to do whats best for them and their family.

 

[tastycar]

I wouldn't understand all the code and fancy Scotch talk and so and so begat so and so and so forth.......

And the playcalling would be impossible for the players to learn...well, maybe Josh Dobbs would get it. Hey, fun fact, did you know he was in aerosp....

 

[BJWeeks]

Reported on 247 by an "insider" that Fulmer has been put in charge of the coaching search. Thought that firing Currie would be announced before Fulmer installed, but who knows? Not putting much stock in it at this point. But, that would also indicate Davenport may have switched sides from Haslam to the good guys.

If that was true then Fulmer would have went and met Gundy not Currie

 

[BearCat204]

i absolutely think he would be coaching here this year if we didn't have mo, larry and fawking curly running the show up there.

Give me alabama's administration, and jon is recruiting friday.

To hell with anybody that thinks i'm crazy. Boon!

rtr

 

[IM4TN]

Well, I'm still Gruden till it's not but the light seems to be fading and distant.

I'm gonna miss the vibe that was going in here for a few weeks, whatever the outcome.
Hell, I'm missing it already

Yup. Feels like leaving home again.

 

[revjayp]

I absolutely think he would be coaching here this year if we didn't have Mo, Larry and fawking Curly running the show up there.

Give me Alabama's Administration, and Jon is recruiting Friday.

To hell with anybody that thinks I'm crazy. Boon!

I agree completely.

 

[UTVolinExile]

To be fair to FD he actually gave us something tangible to think about. He said is info without giving away too much and pointed to a specific example of Haslam's ego on display

All you did was say you had some kind of damning info and then tried tell everyone to keep fighting a fight that we have no proof of something going on, only hearsay.

So maybe just maybe some people don't want to be made to look like fools again with and fight something with no real proof

I brought specific info before, and after Currie blew everything up people dragged me for bringing it. Nevermind that the info was and is real. So I discussed this more recent info PRIVATELY with knuck. I did not bring it to the board. And his reaction to it here caused people to give him heat. I did not intend to bring the info here, but I didn't want knuck getting dragged for what he and I discussed. So I asked people to stop dragging knuck. And was immediately dragged, alternately for 1) having info, 2) not telling everybody info, 3) telling some, but not what people wanted to hear.

Make sense?

Edit: in no way am I ragging on knuck. Just to be crystal clear.

 

[vol4life1981]

Seats were amazing. As you predicted. AV is a class act.

I don't know how many more acts this play has but I think it's about played out. I just hope we want a curtain call when it's all done.

Curtain call being Gruden telling the absolute truth about what exactly happened...so all these haters in here can choke on a nut when he says if it wasn't for Currie and the higher ups.

 

[robbymoore94]

If nothing more than PR to calm the fans down and squash the Gruden to UT thing for good, would it not make sense to make him a reasonable offer. Prove to the fans it was made with full effort, and make him say no. That type of closure would help the next coach I would think. If we hire Gundy (once again not a bad hire), Currie gets the ax a week later, and then it comes out we could have landed Gruden with an offer that was reasonable, A LOT of fans are going to automatically dislike Gundy simply because he isn’t Gruden.

 

[vol4rockytop]

And the playcalling would be impossible for the players to learn...well, maybe Josh Dobbs would get it. Hey, fun fact, did you know he was in aerosp....

They replaced that with Jake Fromm played in the little league World Series

 

[Hawkpilot]

That is an inspiring speech!

I'm ready to punch someone in the mouth!

 

[tastycar]

They replaced that with Jake Fromm played in the little league World Series

So. True.

 

[BluetickWhiskey]

Where’s all y’all OG Grudenite T-Shirts 😂😂😂