Recruiting Forum Talk XXXIX

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I'm not saying there isn't pressure at Tennessee, because there is -- obviously, but I think being the coach at your alma mater would be a different level of pressure.
 
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Souce said:
I'm not saying there isn't pressure at Tennessee, because there is -- obviously, but I think being the coach at your alma mater would be a different level of pressure.
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The reason I doubt Peyton ever coaches here.

Nothing really to gain, but a whole lot to lose in the eyes of the fan base.
 
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omghulkhands said:
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Buster is awesome.
 
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Jon Gruden probably won't recruit; He'll conduct interview with prospective recruits. Oh, and read on if you want to know how come our offense improved so much in 2015 & 2016.

Since arriving at Gruden’s classroom at 8 a.m. sharp, Carson Wentz has been a rapt pupil. The big-bodied quarterback diagrams a complex passing route from North Dakota State’s playbook, quickly diagnoses protections and even nods politely as the ex-NFL coach harps about how somebody will need to replace Peyton Manning.

Then Gruden—progressing through a curated lesson plan with a remote control—flashes a picture of the Chiefs’ defensive coordinator on his projector.

“Do you know this guy?” Gruden barks.

Wentz pauses. “Um...”

“This guy is a pain in the ass,” Gruden says. “Bob Sutton. I don’t know what he’s got on his sheet, but he’s got one of the best pressure packages in the league.”

On to the next slide.

“How about this guy?” Gruden asks.

Silence.

“This is Mike Smith,” Gruden continues. “Now he’s back as a defensive coordinator [of the Bucs]. He’s a pain in the ass, too.”

Gruden scrolls through slides like he’s in a hurry-up offense, moving from the Bears’ Vic Fangio (“another pain in the ass”) to New England’s Matt Patricia (“he has one of the best three-down sub packages in the league”) to the Cowboys’ Rod Marinelli (“he’s getting into double-A-gap blitzes now.”)

“This guy,” says Gruden, clearly giving up on the quiz, “is Dom Capers, the defensive coordinator of the Packers. He’s a badass. And if you know anything about Capers, you know that he’s a crunch-time blitzer. It’s gotta be on the tip sheet, Carson! I walk in on a Friday and I say hey, ‘We’re putting in a two-minute drill. Dom Capers is going to all-out blitz you off a timeout in a two-minute drill!’”

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Gruden wears his heart on his sleeve, and also his title. The FFCA stitched on the polo he wears for the show stands for the Fired Football Coaches Association, which, believe it or not, is a real thing. “When Jon was fired by the Bucs in 2009, he was crushed,” says Mark Arteaga, Gruden’s close friend and member of his staff in Oakland and Tampa. “Devastated. It was the first time anyone on our staff had been fired, and we didn’t know what to do with ourselves.” And so for three days a week, at 6 a.m., the staff assembled in a borrowed office at the St. Pete Times Forum, where Gruden would lead mock-coaches meetings. Part of it was that Gruden didn’t know what else to do with his time; part of it was so that the staff could stay fresh if they were ever given another opportunity.

The group jokingly called itself the Fired Football Coaches Association, and the name stuck. Eventually Gruden rented his own office, an 800-square-foot space in a strip mall. The meetings were open to anyone who wanted to talk shop. Other fired coaches, like Mike Sherman, stopped in to stay fresh. Local high school coaches would workshop with Gruden, as would Division I football staffs, usually as a pit stop on recruiting trips. The FFCA has since upgraded its digs, and has expanded into a charitable group that provides support and financial assistance to high school football programs, in addition to being a self-styled “football think-tank.”

“Jon is an ambassador for the game,” says Tennessee coach Butch Jones, whose staff has visited Gruden at least twice over the past two years.

“He’s just as curious about things we’re doing as we are in picking his brain,” adds Vols offensive coordinator Mike DeBord, who said the staff had specific areas they wanted to address with Gruden upon their last visit, including play-action and use of timeouts. “It’s definitely safe to say there’s a few things we learned with Gruden that we added to our playbook in 2015.”
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The names mentioned last night and today are ridiculous. If we are scraping to that level of the barrel might as well keep Butch (jk) Has JAV posted since this weekend?
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
True, but I’m sure Currie can contractually keep him from bolting If Nebraska wants him. But also, even tho he’s an alum, hard to imagine he’d go there over TN, it’s a much tougher job.
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His agent isn't going to allow for a "no Nebraska" clause in there. I don't think I've ever heard of something like that in a college coach contract.

He knows the fear of that happening is power and something like that would come with a hefty price if we were to put it in there. UT would be better off paying him well and making it where he doesn't want to leave.

JMO
 
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