Official Jon Gruden Thread XLVII

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Mike4Vols said:
UT fans -- all of us -- changed how athletic departments view coaching searches moving forward. The power of social media has been exposed.

If you don't have a finger on the pulse of your fans, you will pay dearly.
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Here is something else that I think is amusing.

One of the Nashville sports hacks was bad mouthing the fanbase. He was saying that if the fanbase is so much smarter than the AD then let them hire the coach.

No one person is smarter than 1000, 100,000, or the fan base itself.

We as a fanbase could see that Schiano wouldn't work here. He wouldn't understand the culture. Plus like Madden always said, you are what your record says you are. He isn't a very good coach.

The talking heads try to put forth this persona of "we know better than you." They want everyone to think they are THE source for everything sports related. You have to come to us because you're uneducated and couldn't know anything that I don't know already.

If you listen to them discuss the situation at UT, it's always the fans fault.

Well it's not the fans fault. We have trusted those in charge and had been patient.

We were nice until it was time not to be nice.

None of them have the balls to do any real research and say what has been going in here for the last 10 years. It's lazy on their part but I guess it's what their comfortable with. I bet they spend more time in the make up chair than trying to be a journalist anymore.

Trot out there, give some stats on a player, an opinion on a team, make a score prediction and on to the next one.

Oh, while we are at ut, let's give an uninformed opinion on the Tennesse head coaching job. Let's bash them so we can look good to the rest of the country, give them what they want to hear.

Something like this scares the crap out of people. Your not supposed to stand up for yourself anymore. It goes against what's being pushed from the very top of our government today and has been for awhile.

Mmm, crap is good, can I have another spoonful please?

We spit that crap out on the ground, wiped our mouths with the back of our hand and shoved that spoon back in their mouth. How did that taste Haslam? Currie? Plenty of crap pie left! Here, have another.

Sorry for the rant. It's sad when people get bashed for doing the right thing. It's even sadder when the information is out there that the UT fanbase had every right to to what we did and no one chooses to report it.
 
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GhostVol said:
I swear, when it comes to this coaching search I'm beginning to feel like Marcel in Jerry Clowers 'coon hunting story.......

One night Jerry and Marcel were out with their dogs when they treed a coon up a huge sycamore. Marcel, a firm believer in giving a coon a fighting chance, climbed the tree to shake the coon out. But it wasn't a coon, it was a lynx, and it went after Marcel something terrible. The tree was a-shakin' and a-quiverin' from the battle. Marcel was getting torn up. Finally, desperate, he hollered down at Jerry, "Shoot, shoot, this thang is killin' me." Jerry hollered back, "I'm afraid to shoot, I might hit you". Marcel hollered back down, "Just shoot up here amongst us, one of us has got to have some relief."
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Jon climbed that tree not Marcel

Knock him out Jon
 
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buckfama said:
We live rent free in everyone's head.

You know what I think pisses them off? We stood up for ourselves.

Never ever never has a fanbase said, we are tired of mediocrity.

Nebraska fans haven't stood up.

Do you think Michigan fans would have if Harbaugh hadn't been the hire? No, they would have taken it.

Florida fans wouldn't do it. I still think they settled with Mullen. He will be good with a flash of great every now and then but that's about it.

Tennessee people are a strong, independent lot for the most part. We support the school and team, to the point of being the most profitable school in the SEC, even though we gave been at one of our lowest points in history.

It's different being a vol fan. It's almost a birthright.

Like I said, if they screw this hire up I just won't watch but I could NEVER cheer for another team. It's in my DNA...
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Per the national media. TN fans are crazy in their expectations.

Yet the Yankees hired the #1 baseball analysts from ESPN and thats not ridiculous

ASU is going to hire Herm Edwards from ESPN, a former NFL coach w virtually no college experience & has been out of the game for 10years & that seems ok.

TN fans want to bring in ESPNs Gruden & we are all batsh*t crazy with unrealistic expectations.

ESPN is cutting jobs & losing high priced talent but we are the ones in denial!
 
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lifeVol said:
[Twitter]https://twitter.com/MikeGriffith32/status/937348667601760256[/Twitter]

If the selection committee picks these top 4 (???), we could have an all SEC NC game
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Would love them to get to the finals for the conference,
But can they both then just lose. Or evaporate
 
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peerless98 said:
I can't imagine an announcement coming after Wednesday. The last day of classes is Tuesday with Wednesday being a study day. Finals start Thursday; surely UT wouldn't want that disrupted with team meetings and the chaos that comes with an announcement.
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I have a final at 8AM tomorrow, and this whole deal has not helped me prepare!
 
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GhostVol said:
I swear, when it comes to this coaching search I'm beginning to feel like Marcel in Jerry Clowers 'coon hunting story.......

One night Jerry and Marcel were out with their dogs when they treed a coon up a huge sycamore. Marcel, a firm believer in giving a coon a fighting chance, climbed the tree to shake the coon out. But it wasn't a coon, it was a lynx, and it went after Marcel something terrible. The tree was a-shakin' and a-quiverin' from the battle. Marcel was getting torn up. Finally, desperate, he hollered down at Jerry, "Shoot, shoot, this thang is killin' me." Jerry hollered back, "I'm afraid to shoot, I might hit you". Marcel hollered back down, "Just shoot up here amongst us, one of us has got to have some relief."
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U cant beat jerry clower
 
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Doyle Hargraves said:
Doyle and Tee have a lot in common.
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I’ve heard rumors that Miami was using recruiting tactics that would make Schiano testify in court. Is that true? If so, the Shoneys for a year TN has been rumored to be offering may not be enough.
 
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