Official Jon Gruden Thread XXIX

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buckfama said:
I have wondered the same.

They are always located in what would be high traffic and high rent areas. Between the overhead of the building and employees versus the number of people you see in the store or doesn't add up to being very profitable.

Maybe online sales?

Evidently he makes his real money somewhere else and BAM is a writeoff.
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Interesting tidbit...anderson's kid was on the trip to Aruba with Natalie Holloway when she disappeared. He made a jet available to her parents indefinitely afterwards so that they could travel back and forth easily. He also largely financially backed their search for her.

He wears a white hat.
 
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VFLnSFD said:
Interesting tidbit...anderson's kid was on the trip to Aruba with Natalie Holloway when she disappeared. He made a jet available to her parents indefinitely afterwards so that they could travel back and forth easily. He also largely financially backed their search for her.

He wears a white hat.
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That is interesting, and what an unbelievably kind gesture.
 
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Time to play the what if game.

What if the Gruden deal is complete but is contingent on Jones completing the season before any announcements of firing or replacement? Would you be willing to patiently wait it out? What type of information could be released to placate the fan base? Any? What would look different at this point?
 
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1725gatorhater said:
I hope Cade and Trevor Lawrence.
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Would love to get Trevor Lawrence. A family member of mine works with his aunt, and apparently he loves UT and always wanted to go there when he was growing up. So I'm hoping that we pull the right hire quickly and throw him a bone. Kid is the real deal.
 
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buckfama said:
I have wondered the same.

They are always located in what would be high traffic and high rent areas. Between the overhead of the building and employees versus the number of people you see in the store or doesn't add up to being very profitable.

Maybe online sales?

Evidently he makes his real money somewhere else and BAM is a writeoff.
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VFLnSFD said:
Interesting tidbit...anderson's kid was on the trip to Aruba with Natalie Holloway when she disappeared. He made a jet available to her parents indefinitely afterwards so that they could travel back and forth easily. He also largely financially backed their search for her.

He wears a white hat.
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My old boss was very close friends with the Holloway's....he was with them in Aruba every minute of that search. He's a Bama fan, but had a lot of good to say about Charlie Anderson.
 
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luthervol said:
Time to play the what if game.

What if the Gruden deal is complete but is contingent on Jones completing the season before any announcements of firing or replacement? Would you be willing to patiently wait it out? What type of information could be released to placate the fan base? Any? What would look different at this point?
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What would be the benefit in this? If you already have a coach and Gruden signed.

Gruden would want it announced now to help recruiting and the early signing period.

Not necessarily to sign players for Tennessee in December. But could possibly stop players from early signing with another school.

If Gruden has agreed. He would want it announced for this reason.
 
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VFL92 said:
Ignorant comment. You can hate Butch all you want. I'm fed up with him. But the players have not quit. They played hard against KY and they continue to put forth effort. If you watched 2 min of Florida's game Saturday, you can see those kids have all quit. The players happen to like Butch more than you and I do.
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I never call you out on all of your 'ignorant' comments. Well, I will now
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Mays is a Vol legacy from Knoxville, that's been committed since 2015 and is the guy who's been recruiting like crazy the past few years for the Vols. It's a little bigger than the normal de-commit when a he's bailing.
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I don't totally disagree with you. I understand that it is troubling, but it isn't burn the house down troubling. When things were going great and its a few years off, the verbal is great and helping to recruit is cruicial. Now it is getting close to ink on paper, and it gets a little more real. This is the time when Cade needs to concentrate on him, and his future.

Look, when you've been committed to a program/coach for so long and it looks like its 100% concrete, other programs will still send you letters and call, but they don't put huge resources in what they think are no percentage grabs. I've seen this happen to kids. Everyone assumes that they are going to a program, alternate schools don't hold that scholarship spot for the kid, something happens and then it causes issues. Now Cade is a 5 star, so i think he could switch last minute and a school would figure out someone else to bump, but there are other issues. He may have gone to GA and the coaches kind of given him a hard time about still being committed to a coach who is gone, and why was he even there? They may have advised him that if he wants a serious look and spot with a school, then he needs to decommit and open that up so other schools give him 100% attention.
I know it hurts TN fans feelings right now, but if you're Cade, its ok to decommit and then go get serious looks at other programs. Then when things settle here and its time to put ink on paper, then you still sign where your heart is. This is a 17 year old kid with big aspirations let him go look and then if he still chooses us, its VFL. If he were to choose elsewhere, then wish him luck. No one 5* is going to make or break this program right now. Recruits isn't our #1 priority right now. We need a coach.

EDIT: I don't know Cade. I've met his father, but haven't seen him in 15 years. This is pure speculation with my experience in the recruiting world and knowing someone that this happened to. Don't take this as 100% gospel as what happened to Cade. Just take it as an opinion or another way to think about it.
 
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One other thing about Gruden coming. The staff he brings will TRULY be "rock star" quality!

Butch has always been mostly talk as it relates to the best staff in America. I have not liked him from day one because the actions/hires he made didn't match the words he spouted.

It's time for Gruden to show him what the best staff in America actually looks like.....
 
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