I got the go ahead to share some information that I started to tell last night. It's solid info from a close friend.
As I said last night, Butch will be the coach against Alabama. From what I have been told, the GOAL people close to the situation is to have a replacement in place when Butch is fired. They hope to have this completed by the time we play LSU. Based on this, and this part is a guess, I expect Butch to be followed on either the Sunday or Monday following the LSU game, presuming we lose.
I was told that Gruden will undoubtedly be offered the heading coaching position at Tennessee if they receive enough interest after gauging him through back channels and the decision to go after Gruden first is "as close to unanimous as it gets". None of these things are ever completely unanimous. UT will also do their due dillegence and gauge the interest of other coaches in case they can not land Gruden. Either way, they seem determined to have someone in place immediately following the end of the regular season. My source has no idea who they'll pursue in addition to Gruden but says there are three names being floated around that it definitely won't be (Kelly, Stoops, Miles).
Now for some semi-bad news, he did say he believes that them making a very attractive offer to Gruden doesn't mean that they'll definitely go after high dollar guys after him. In truth, he really has no idea whether or not the hire will be a good one if it is not Gruden.
This is pretty much all common knowledge at this point, nothing too groundbreaking, but he isn't as in the know as he once was and isn't as concerned about me sharing things because of it.