Official Jon Gruden Thread XLIX

[VFLnSFD]

In 29 hours and 53 minutes I will stop following this coaching search.

 

[Achilles]

The line has officially been crossed.

Lol, well my friends do call me Captain Too Far... You show me the line and I’ll cross it every time.

 

[Big Orange Jeff]

Just gonna throw this out there but if you had a choice between taber Spani or Brittany Jackson who would you pick personally both are hot as ****🔥🔥🔥 but imma go with brittany Jackson but she's crazy as hell

Ace Clement ftw

 

[VFL2098]

Side note : I’ve never had to “poop” so many times at work in one day. Gotta get my updates in haha

 

[Lulu]

To hell with this early signing.. I'd sacrifice a few recruits who were planning on signing then..

Lose a few recruits or lose years with a crap hire....

Your response assumes that Gruden is coming and they've held off on an announcement for some mysterious reason that has to do with him finishing at ESPN. My response assumes no such thing.

 

[ShowMeThemTD's]

Just gonna throw this out there but if you had a choice between taber Spani or Brittany Jackson who would you pick personally both are hot as ****🔥🔥🔥 but imma go with brittany Jackson but she's crazy as hell

Albert!?!?

 

[ASamWitch]

you delete so many tweets. Like you second guess half of what you tweet out.

this!

 

[jkburke12]

I haven’t been around here for a little bit but go ahead and take a look at my tweets starting Sunday with the Schiano disaster (Do you think I own a crystal ball?)

You Sir, are Fake News!
If you call him out on Twitter he will block you!!!

 

[RockCityVol]

Side note : I’ve never had to “poop” so many times at work in one day. Gotta get my updates in haha

The correct phrase is you have had to take a butch so many times.

 

[VFL97]

Genius strategy. Love how fans ignore the money like it grows on trees.

Somebody doesn't get it.

The average salary of the top 10 coaches by pay is roughly $7 million. The lowest is $5.1M. The top five is $8 million.

If you aren't willing to pay that for a top notch coach then you have no interest in being a top 10 program. And when your working on salary ranges between $2 and $3M less than the top 10 average you are going to be a long way from hiring a top tier coach.

I'm sure they have offered more for Gruden; however, Petersen only makes $4.1M base. He's worth twice that. If UT only offers him a $900K increase, just as an example, forget about it. Why would he bother uprooting his life for that. Would Fulmer put $7 or $8 million on the table when he talked to Petersen? We will never know, but I seriously doubt it or the conversation lasts longer than it did.

 

[SmokeyLives]

I am Captain Ahab
And this White Whale
I am its Master
or by Heaven and EARTH
You Whale lover
will die tied to me

.

 

[Achilles]

I don’t keep tabs, but I believe he is.

 

[iamadoc]

Was Gruden on Golic and Wingo this morning? Sorry, just missed it.

Yes. No UT stuff came up

 

[Christian Lowe]

You Sir, are Fake News!
If you call him out on Twitter he will block you!!!

Take it easy Trumperino

 

[MaTaLa]

No at all.... however I do recall a 100% done deal, a fact that Gruden does want to coach here, a statement that the people who set this up do not miss.

You have to admit these statements alone make people question you at this point

Without the Currie/Schiano fubar I'd agree. Not hard for me to see how they back doored everyone.

 

[RagingOrange]

Fulmer in

Yay. I dont live under a rock.

Where is the evidence of change? Homerun hire? Orange blood? TN values? No candidate yet has exemplified that.

 

[ASamWitch]

No at all.... however I do recall a 100% done deal, a fact that Gruden does want to coach here, a statement that the people who set this up do not miss.

You have to admit these statements alone make people question you at this point

Coasty, I think we have crossed the questioning part......

 

[cobbwebb0710]

Makes me feel good.


And sad.....

Brother I'd take you Grudenites any day over the Kiffin looneys!!

GBO!!

 

[Achilles]

Just heard on the radio multiple sources are saying Pruitt is a done deal. They didn’t confirm, they just said a lot is starting to flood in.

 

[UTSuave’]

Ace Clement ftw

She is hot🔥🔥😍 who do you think the hottest is you've seen overall that played lady vols basketball here

 

[nirwin]

What if it is Gruden and he is wanting to finish out the season of MNF which is Christmas Day, would you give him that?

If I knew that was the deal, yes. If it drags on like this until then, no.

And ESPN has a wild card playoff game now, too, so it would actually be Monday, Jan. 8 (the date of the national championship game, coincidentally) until his obligations this season are entirely finished.

 

[Cobb-Webb 1989]

MIT_Beaver

 

[AJ1234]

Sounds like we are hoping Pruitt is our Kirby smart. But how long has Pruitt been with Saban? Kirby stayed with Saban longest out of any of his assistants 6 years I think. But Pruitt is a bammer wasn't Georgia Kirby alma mater?

 

[Dudleys87]

Is this grief talking or logical Dudley?

It’s logical pissed off Dudley.


The water is cold and I’m out of booze.

After I saw the article that Jimmy was cleared of any and all wrong doings with Pilot I knew he’d turn focus back to Tennessee.

It was reported that he was indeed at the dinner

So I’m sure it happened like this:

Hey
Hey
I’ll handle X amount
I’ll handle Y amount Haslam is the Y amount
Everything was on the table for Miles and Gruden
X came through
Y realizing it’s not in his favors pulls back
Phil goes back to the board
Miles pulls out
Enter Steele, Tucker, and Pruitt
Steele interviewed and Pruitt
Gruden backs out
Y leaves NYC happy.

Here the hell we are...

 

[Sstterry]

He wasn't in there with me 😳

Because you were a smokescreen