Official Jon Gruden Thread XLIV

[VFL97]

Fire Davenport

Fire Currie

Boycott Pilot

Boycott Casual Pint @ Northshore

Hire Blackburn

Gruden To The Hill

You forgot ban Haslam.

 

[Sara Clark]

Now JG dad adding fuel to the fire on Twitter. Basically said we (fans) opened Pandoras Box and if players don’t like the new hire, but the fans do, players will protest. What an effin sxxx storm.

No doubt in my mind they would love Gruden. Send him a tweet and tell him to shut the hell up and sit down!

 

[SouthpawTN]

Who cares what the players think? They suck anyway. Win a damn game and then you can cry.

 

[preacherwebb]

Of course. Voice your opinion and have your voice heard. He doesn't work for the University but boosters are putting pressure on the school as well. So making your voice heard helps. No uproar yesterday then Schianao is our coach. Regardless of who made the calls.

i shouted it from the housetops in no less than 20 threads today. even started 2 threads that quickly got merged. made calls. sent emails. signed petitions.

trying to do my part to apply the pressure.

 

[Coastypop]

Can we not link Gruden to this coaching search from here on out

NO

 

[3rdDegreeVol]

I was a reference where Atlanta vol posted today?

Can someone direct me to his post or tell me what he said?

Here's his posts.

We are headed into a dark time...but we must rid ourselves of the folks who continue to bring this program down and bow to “old money” in order to truly have a chance at the future. I am headed to ktown today...if something isn’t done then many of us have no other choice than to pull funding and resources until a change is made. I urge all of you no matter how big or small a donor to let the folks at UTAD department know we expect a healthy process and fair shake....if not support other good causes and get tickets on stub hub the day of the game if you want but do not donate until resolution has come.

Schiano was never plan B as I alluded to earlier...even sadder part is I found out about it from one of Urbans very close associates literally as it was going down Sunday afternoon with a text “did you know you are closing in on Schiano? Your crew is up here now are you aware?”

Ill elaborate more once I have time to put the rest of the puzzle together and the timing around it but rest assured this guy was never even on most of our radar until the very last second....which is clearly what Currie wanted.

I am headed to knoxville now...then off to an another location to discuss what measures will help force change. We must demand accountability....pure and simple.

 

[volgr]

Now JG dad adding fuel to the fire on Twitter. Basically said we (fans) opened Pandoras Box and if players don’t like the new hire, but the fans do, players will protest. What an effin sxxx storm.

Don't like it, but they are frustrated too. Now's is not the time to start attacking players or their families. Leave them be, they aren't the enemy.

 

[weirdfishes]

Oh...im pretty damn sure this is bigger than an annoyance to her now.

She's in a sh1tstorm and may not survive.

Now it is, but I doubt she cared much before

 

[midtnvol2]

I don’t know but I know a lot of angry people with deep pockets want him out. The group I hangout with had a teleconference last night and all agreed we were ready to back out if GS was hired. We elected our highest ranking booster to contact the AD and tell them. All of us together is a very significant amount of money. I don’t know if we are going to pull that card again for Currie but I know we are going to talk again in the next couple of days. You have to be careful with the nuclear option. I know that several of us today have talked to reps of the AD and expressed the Currie needs to be out.

Is the admin looking to see if there is cause with Currie to save the buyout?

 

[BubbaWms]

Hold your fire, folks. It might not have required her signature to be enforceable.

If there was a spot for her signature, and it was never signed, it would be very good for UT.

But, if there wasn't, then you get into all kinds of arguments concerning Currie's authority, etc.

Might mean nothing but both Butch and Barnes MOU's had place for AD, Chancellor and CFO !

Butch Jones' Memorandum of Understanding with Tennessee

Rick Barnes MOU

 

[VOLED]

Now JG dad adding fuel to the fire on Twitter. Basically said we (fans) opened Pandoras Box and if players don’t like the new hire, but the fans do, players will protest. What an effin sxxx storm.

so the players who just completed the worst season in TN history are making threats?

 

[weirdfishes]

Who cares what the players think? They suck anyway. Win a damn game and then you can cry.

My 2018 resolution: to not follow football players on social media

 

[volfannbama]

My 2018 resolution: to not follow football players on social media

Wise decision.

 

[austin_vol]

No doubt in my mind they would love Gruden. Send him a tweet and tell him to shut the hell up and sit down!

ALSO HAve to remember that his dad played for Rutgers where Schiano was head coach at for 11 years

 

[ALLVOL 4LIFE]

They supposedly took a contract to Ohio. If he signed it, we're probably screwed unless more signatures needed to be on the document to make it final.

She is Chancellor, she would have to have signed it for it to be binding.

 

[tbones0711]

Do you not understand what just happened? The boosters did meet with Gruden, in Tamps, to iron out the details of his contract. Gruden wanted total control of the football program and he was led to believe he was getting control.

Haslam and Currie were on board with this because, secretly, those two had another agenda. Everyone was led to believe Gruden was coming.

Gruden didn't want to be announced as our coach until 11/28. This was the perfect opening for Haslam and Currie to formulate their own plan. If Gruden had not put that stipulation in place, there's a good chance all of this stuff happening today could have been avoided. He would have been our next coach. I bet I'm pretty much spot on here. At least I think so.

Got any names to go with the boosters who were there? Everything you say is plausible yet lacks validation.Was an MOU signed concerning Gruden hire? Any evidence other than your word is all I'm asking. Otherwise why are you doing this?

 

[zydane47]

Only thing I can think of is some sort of open letter of different groups stating why they are cancerous to the University and ask them to stop making decisions on behalf of all of us. It could be respectfully worded and well thought out. You would have to get multiple respected people to sign onto it though. I don't know, maybe that wouldn't work. That's my only idea.

A letter would work but it would only need to be four words long, and everyone here knows what those words are

 

[5FingerVolPunch]

Don't turn on the players. They're just as frustrated as we are. This coaching hire could effect their future careers. It just effects our emotions. They're more vested than we are. The fight is with the admin, not the players.

 

[2EastTnVols]

They set up the false flag to start and come back in later to be portrayed as saviors to some extent. In the perfect scheme of this type you can't connect them to the initial act though. This very well maybe occurring but Currie nor Haslam aren't the initiators. Seems like the party to gain let this happen knowing the self-destruction would happen. Currie sabotaged himself for some reason best I can tell. A big piece of info missing for sure.

I really don't think there is any way he would sabotage himself.

 

[revjayp]

One thing I’m realizing is Ergen may be a micro instead of a helicopter. It sounds like he’s absent and has been. Am I reading this right?

 

[C-town Vol]

Do you not understand what just happened? The boosters did meet with Gruden, in Tamps, to iron out the details of his contract. Gruden wanted total control of the football program and he was led to believe he was getting control.

Haslam and Currie were on board with this because, secretly, those two had another agenda. Everyone was led to believe Gruden was coming.

Gruden didn't want to be announced as our coach until 11/28. This was the perfect opening for Haslam and Currie to formulate their own plan. If Gruden had not put that stipulation in place, there's a good chance all of this stuff happening today could have been avoided. He would have been our next coach. I bet I'm pretty much spot on here. At least I think so.

No. Just no.
Gruden said no. If we did make a legitimate run at him, he turned us down. He doesn’t want UT. He doesn’t want you and me.

 

[rockyhdr]

Of course. Voice your opinion and have your voice heard. He doesn't work for the University but boosters are putting pressure on the school as well. So making your voice heard helps. No uproar yesterday then Schianao is our coach. Regardless of who made the calls.

Someone needs to post the email links again for the evening crew

 

[zydane47]

Now JG dad adding fuel to the fire on Twitter. Basically said we (fans) opened Pandoras Box and if players don’t like the new hire, but the fans do, players will protest. What an effin sxxx storm.

Lol what a goob, look I get the players may not like the hire, but are the players footing the bill for all this?

What will they do transfer? That's fine, other players will come here because of the new coach, this is an empty threat and he knows it

 

[Sstterry]

I miss the days long past (2 days ago) of hope and optimism and all the witty banter and exchange in this thread..... :shakehead:

 

[robbymoore94]

What if Gruden, or any other coach for that matter, hasn’t publicly or formally declined the job because they were never actually officially offered the job?