Official Jon Gruden Thread XXIV

[fishing Vol]

The butch Jones show is now called the UT coaches show on my channel preview. Is that what it’s always been called?

It's been that way for a while. One channel or time slot has called it UT coaches show and another has called it the Butch Jones show.

 

[coffeevol]

Yea, you don't know any more than anyone else.

Butch might be here through the end of season.

Butch might be fired today.

Butch might be here next year.

Mites grown on a chickens azz.

You are correct....BUT....we win Southern Miss and mizzu is a toss up, and suck it up with the L to vandy....he is here to end of the year.

 

[Coastypop]

Doyle's Grudometer is down to 55%.

No offense to anyone but...

I am sick of losing.
I am tired of overpaid underachieving coaches.
I am tired of said coaches being a national punchline.
I am sick of the looks of pity from the fans of our rivals.
I am sick and tired of hoping against hope that the people in charge will suddenly wake up and actually start caring about winning.
I am sick of going through coaching searches every 3-5 years hoping that we will get the level of coach that we deserve only to have to do a Google search when a hire is announced.
I am tired of insider information.
I am sick of being told to have faith and be patient.

It is more than obvious what should be done.
Why is it not being done?

For me, the time of getting excited over insider's cryptic posts has passed. All of that news, good or bad, is meaningless until Currie does something.
Enough is enough.
It's time for him to sh!t or get off the pot.

Truth

 

[VolFreakJosh]

I heard Gruden has already signed a contract extension through 2021 for ESPN.

Highly doubt he’d sign it if he knew he was ready to accept the UT job.

 

[Power T-Rev]

IMO, the fan base's initial reaction is somewhat irrelevant as long as the hire turns out good. The new coach must win games early, or the apathy of the fan base will reach a point of no return.

Somebody tweet Jimmy and tell him he better shut the f*** up!!!

It’s almost like Jimmy enjoys saying Butch will be here

 

[37L1]

"Waiting is the hardest part."

Keep the faith and Grude on.

 

[BigT_Chief]

That's too much

Pay the man whatever it takes to get him here.

 

[Offset Eye]

Long time lurker, first time post.
Thanks for the approval Freak, hope we all get to party on the yacht soon.

So many thoughts, a lot of negativity this morning, and I understand. This seems to be our only remaining outlet of optimism as Vols fans right now.

As far as timing with Gruden, his Corona Call Gruden campaign is slated to run through Oct 31. Perhaps this is playing a role. Can’t imagine NCAA being to kind to a beer sponsored HC.

Soon!

And now there's this guy.

 

[tastycar]

It’s almost like Jimmy enjoys saying Butch will be here

Absolutely. Smug.

 

[OLEVOLFAN]

I heard Gruden has already signed a contract extension through 2021 for ESPN.

Highly doubt he’d sign it if he knew he was ready to accept the UT job.

And that is hard for me to believe with all the layoffs that's going on at ESPN with more to come.

 

[General Jack]

I’m cool with the $10 mil as long as th buyout is minimal. The hype behind Gruden would be amazing but there is a chance he wouldn’t bring the wins we hope for. Can’t get stuck with mediocre results AND a seven figure buyout.

 

[Behr]

Long time lurker, first time post.
Thanks for the approval Freak, hope we all get to party on the yacht soon.

So many thoughts, a lot of negativity this morning, and I understand. This seems to be our only remaining outlet of optimism as Vols fans right now.

As far as timing with Gruden, his Corona Call Gruden campaign is slated to run through Oct 31. Perhaps this is playing a role. Can’t imagine NCAA being to kind to a beer sponsored HC.

Soon!

Welcome to VN.

Funny you post this, I was about give seconds away from commenting that everyone should chill on when Butch was getting fired, and get back to Gruden.

Nice timing on your part.

 

[UTVolinExile]

So, one of my own small informational contributions to this conversation was input from the academic admin side (AA) that they had agreed on a number of concessions (from their perspective) to the football program. That was a major article, and it appeared to be cleared out of the way of the hire.

Within the last 24 hours we have seen some very specific rumors about Gruden's staff. Specifically, this morning we have a suggestion that he may have tapped Art Briles as OC.

I can think of nothing, literally nothing, that would be more likely to make the players in the AA lose their collective ish than allowing Art Briles to set foot on campus in an official capacity. It would be the kind of move that could easily throw a huge wrench into negotiations.

I'm not sure if the Briles rumor is true. I am interested that it has come out right at the time we expected to hear an announcement about Butch, but we haven't.

I've tried contacting my AA person, no response yet this morning. Not entirely unexpected with church going on. Will try again to find something out later.

IF the Briles rumor is true, then it's absolutely going to be a showdown between the $ and the AA. We will see who wins. I can tell you this though: if Gruden comes and Briles ends up being on staff, it will represent a huge power shift between football and academics, akin to the Romans burning Carthage and sowing the fields with salt.

Grude on!

 

[Silky_Johnson]

Merge to gruden thread.

Soon...

 

[Jravol78]

Just curious if whoever wrote that article has any credibility? I have never heard of them but that doesn't necessarily mean anything

 

[vols1707]

Worth it if Gruden has the fire & desire to coach again..

 

[RagingOrange]

Ive been thinking all along it would get very bleak. Have been saying it here. Noones listening. Like bleak to the point where everyone would be happy to be discussing ANY coach not just THE coach we want. Because then theres no pressure.

Then we get our man.

 

[VFLnSFD]

Grude morning everyone! All caught up on my morning reading, and...

I have a scenario for you to consider. Give me a minute to type it up.

We're waiting. Homie.

 

[wildorange]

October 31st, trick or treat! Oh the irony! SOON!!!!

 

[lateknight]

You are correct....BUT....we win Southern Miss and mizzu is a toss up, and suck it up with the L to vandy....he is here to end of the year.

But you forgot about the LSU loss in there. Ugh

 

[dougvolfan]

He has never coached in college. Also he has been out of coaching since 2008. If true we would be betting everything on him. Idk

 

[rocytop2624]

Somebody tweet Jimmy and tell him he better shut the f*** up!!!

Why the **** do you keep Jones at this point ! Fire his ass . I may just kick my cat the next time I see Botch

 

[tvolsfan]

I still think there’s a sold chance he’s gone before the next game. I don’t think Currie wants to set a record for number of empty seats on Saturday.

 

[rltw1974]

That’s is a huge risk/reward gamble. Saban with 5 NCs doesn’t even make that much money.

 

[bcartervol98]

Looks like my saturdays are open.

Will be at a Boy Scout event this Friday-Sunday. I remember when I was upset I wouldn't see the game. I'll read about our homecoming loss to Southern Miss.

What upsets me the most is watching my 13 year old son who gets so excited watching the Vols play and is probably a more passionate fan than me. Breaking my eardrums with YESSSS when we score or get a fumble. Can't sleep after the games from excitement. I had to wake him up 3 times during the game. They are missing what we had in the 90s and it's just sad and there is no solid indication it will get any better soon. When he said this morning "I'm not even gonna check the score next week" it makes me sad but I feel the same way.