Official Jon Gruden Thread V

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Meeting takes places at great time. Maybe they will discuss how much money was lost against Troy because of sorry excuse for a head coach that we have.
 
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Lexvol said:
That is in line with everything I've heard.

We are chasing GA and Fla academically. I support the higher standards. Their models seem to be working pretty well. I think that is probably the most telling part of your first post. If it is working for them it can work for us.
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Sure it can work. It's worked here in the past. It's a matter of everyone being on the same page at the top - President, Chancellor, BOT, AD, big boosters, etc.

The problem with fixing it is as much financial as anything - as I posted earlier - as well as a major culture thing. Of course the culture thing could be fixed with the right leadership at the top.

The other thing that complicates this - and this hasn't been mentioned yet - is the Governor. Are there bigger aspirations in the next 4 or 8 years? I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me. If so, that complicates everything even more because touting a university that achieved high academic and research ratings during your tenure as Governor means a lot more nationally than a good football program. So that begs the question - who is on which side here? Thinking this way can really make your head hurt, but it is the reality of the situation and how bad it is.

The most important thing right now is unity - across the board. As much as I blame Fulmer for much of this mess and don't want him near this stuff, he may be one of the only realistic options to unite the base enough to work our way out of this mess.
 
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bjsvols1 said:
Sure it can work. It's worked here in the past. It's a matter of everyone being on the same page at the top - President, Chancellor, BOT, AD, big boosters, etc.

The problem with fixing it is as much financial as anything - as I posted earlier - as well as a major culture thing. Of course the culture thing could be fixed with the right leadership at the top.

The other thing that complicates this - and this hasn't been mentioned yet - is the Governor. Are there bigger aspirations in the next 4 or 8 years? I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me. If so, that complicates everything even more because touting a university that achieved high academic and research ratings during your tenure as Governor means a lot more nationally than a good football program. So that begs the question - who is on which side here? Thinking this way can really make your head hurt, but it is the reality of the situation and how bad it is.

The most important thing right now is unity - across the board. As much as I blame Fulmer for much of this mess and don't want him near this stuff, he may be one of the only realistic options to unite the base enough to work our way out of this mess.
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So, as Haslem's constituents, we simply need to threaten to recall him if he refuses to fix our football fiasco. GENIUS!!!
 
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It just chaps my arse to no end that we had a bunch of Neros fiddling around while the football program burned to the ground. And, everyone of them new the problems in the University, yet they stood around and ignored them. Now the chickens are coming home to roost at absolutely the worst possible time. We have the possibility to hire a Super Bowl winning coach, and we aren't ready because our administration is so effed up.
 
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EZE said:
It just chaps my arse to no end that we had a bunch of Neros fiddling around while the football program burned to the ground. And, everyone of them new the problems in the University, yet they stood around and ignored them. Now the chickens are coming home to roost at absolutely the worst possible time. We have the possibility to hire a Super Bowl winning coach, and we aren't ready because our administration is so effed up.
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Simply put....yep.
 
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EZE said:
It just chaps my arse to no end that we had a bunch of Neros fiddling around while the football program burned to the ground. And, everyone of them new the problems in the University, yet they stood around and ignored them. Now the chickens are coming home to roost at absolutely the worst possible time. We have the possibility to hire a Super Bowl winning coach, and we aren't ready because our administration is so effed up.
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Basically, yeah. This is how I feel about the university as a whole, especially financially. If you want to blame someone, it's truly the fault of the BOT and top leadership/biggest boosters. They act like they don't know, that no one has told them, but it's their lack of questions and keeping people in line that is the problem.
 
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EZE said:
It just chaps my arse to no end that we had a bunch of Neros fiddling around while the football program burned to the ground. And, everyone of them new the problems in the University, yet they stood around and ignored them. Now the chickens are coming home to roost at absolutely the worst possible time. We have the possibility to hire a Super Bowl winning coach, and we aren't ready because our administration is
so effed up.
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Misspelled racism IMO.
 
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He is not coming. He was never coming. We are not going to pay a coach 5 million a year. Dooley probably will not be here unless he wins out, if he wins out he will be the coach next year in my opinion but there is still a lot of football to be played. He was never going to be fired in the middle of the season and an official(unofficially I have been told that it was already made)decision will not be made until the season is over meaning if we don't qualify for a bowl it is over. They will not fire him if we go to a bowl game because that would put his dismissal into January. If we don't qualify for a bowl then his fate has been sealed. Either way, you will know after the Kentucky game. Stop with the Cheek and Hart conspiracies, that is all they are.
 
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Also heard from one source that General Neyland was actually cryogenically frozen and could be brought back next year. JMO TIFWIW, NBA on CBS and NFL on NBC
 
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