Official Jon Gruden Thread XLIV

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thebjd said:
What if he just wants to be a fan?
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Then he could easily say so. He knows what's going on and has been asked several times.

One thing he did say "I haven't talked to anyone". Maybe he was ready to go, contacted his assistants, good with a proposed salary from the booster side and just waiting for Currie. The Haslam house and planes thing is what's throwing me off.
 
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OrngeChkrboardVFL said:
Nope, Freak has stated several times what this thread is for...Nancy.
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Thanks sally. Good thing I'm pro gruden. I'd love to see it happen. But I'm also a thinker so I know it's not going to. But when you get the authority to kick me outta here for I'm not sure what? Then please do so
 
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5FingerVolPunch said:
Keep in mind that it's possible Currie never pursued him and he was actually waiting on it to happen. It's possible that some boosters and VFLs were working with him behind scenes, but the AD and Haslam had their man and botched it. That may be why he wasn't denying anything.
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Plausible.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Our football program is at Defcon 1. It is bigger than Gruden, Schiano or any coach.

Give the HC to Fulmer. Let him hire all VFLs as his coordinators and position coaches.


Time for Orange & White blood.
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My biggest regret as a fan is buying into the whole idea that we needed to "professionalize" the UTAD and coaching staff by getting rid of the UT people in the administration and on the staff. In 2005, you started hearing words like 'inbred', 'complacency', and 'equity' a lot. There were acronyms such as GOBINS (good old boys in Neyland Stadium) used to describe these folks. There was a narrative that these people had had gotten fat, happy, and lazy after 1998 and they needed to be rooted out and replaced. I thought this was a conclusion that I came to on my own, but have since learned that this narrative was more or less part of a campaign supported by at least one of the people who is principally being blamed for what happened yesterday. I still think PF's time was up by 2008 but I think the purge that accompanied his dismissal was a big part of why we are where we are now.
 
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Sara Clark said:
Folks while you're sitting on your backsides complaining here, I hope to hell you're making you voices heard by sending emails. I can assure you, I practice what I preach, it started at 3 a.m. this morning. We can't move forward with a coaching hire until that SOB Currie is fired...as well as his accomplice Davenport. You cannot convince me her ars didn't know what the hell was going on. Send the emails!!!!!!
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to who?
how high up?
it's gotta go higher than davenport.
 
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Geronimo said:
For the record, I'm in the Gruden thread and I am Gruden or bust. Maybe I'm stubborn or just naive. Maybe I should've posted in the Brohm thread (is there one?). Just sharing what others may have missed. I CHOOSE to believe the positivity this thread has brought during the roughest patch in UT football I have ever experienced.
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Me too! It is Gruden til it ain't.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
My biggest regret as a fan is buying into the whole idea that we needed to "professionalize" the UTAD and coaching staff by getting rid of the UT people in the administration and on the staff. In 2005, you started hearing words like 'inbred', 'complacency', and 'equity' a lot. There were acronyms such as GOBINS (good old boys in Neyland Stadium) used to describe these folks. There was a narrative that these people had had gotten fat, happy, and lazy after 1998 and they needed to be rooted out and replaced. I thought this was a conclusion that I came to on my own, but have since learned that this narrative was more or less part of a campaign supported by at least one of the people who is principally being blamed for what happened yesterday. I still think PF's time was up by 2008 but I think the purge that accompanied his dismissal was a big part of why we are where we are now.
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Great post
 
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In 2012 Hart (and Haslam) kept trying to hire coaches until they got one behind the podium.

Strong was contacted by other boosters and suggested not to come. Butch Jones was told the same thing, but he decided to take the job.

What is going to be different this time??

We know that the other boosters have been planning for years...
 
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Currie's statement couldn't have been more disrespectful to the fans who shut down his awful hire. He didn't feel the need to give any credence or compassion to our concerns? What an arrogant jerk. I get no hope whatsoever from that stmt.
 
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Hear me out TN administration.

Until Currie is gone, you will not see another red cent from me.

Period.

I know you probably don't read here, but I'm voicing my displeasure here and in emails.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
My biggest regret as a fan is buying into the whole idea that we needed to "professionalize" the UTAD and coaching staff by getting rid of the UT people in the administration and on the staff. In 2005, you started hearing words like 'inbred', 'complacency', and 'equity' a lot. There were acronyms such as GOBINS (good old boys in Neyland Stadium) used to describe these folks. There was a narrative that these people had had gotten fat, happy, and lazy after 1998 and they needed to be rooted out and replaced. I thought this was a conclusion that I came to on my own, but have since learned that this narrative was more or less part of a campaign supported by at least one of the people who is principally being blamed for what happened yesterday. I still think PF's time was up by 2008 but I think the purge that accompanied his dismissal was a big part of why we are where we are now.
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Queue invasion of the bean counters that are completely disconnected from the common people and whose only loyalty is to their pocket book/image
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
My biggest regret as a fan is buying into the whole idea that we needed to "professionalize" the UTAD and coaching staff by getting rid of the UT people in the administration and on the staff. In 2005, you started hearing words like 'inbred', 'complacency', and 'equity' a lot. There were acronyms such as GOBINS (good old boys in Neyland Stadium) used to describe these folks. There was a narrative that these people had had gotten fat, happy, and lazy after 1998 and they needed to be rooted out and replaced. I thought this was a conclusion that I came to on my own, but have since learned that this narrative was more or less part of a campaign supported by at least one of the people who is principally being blamed for what happened yesterday. I still think PF's time was up by 2008 but I think the purge that accompanied his dismissal was a big part of why we are where we are now.
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Agreed.
 
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