Official Gruden Thread 39

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UT PaulVol said:
Lol, maybe misdirect was the wrong choice of word. That’s just how I took it. Like I said, everyone I would ask about it would either roll their eyes, shake their head or laugh it off. I got no positive vibes about it whatsoever. Maybe they were doing that because there were so many people in the box last night (a few LSU fans too) but they all seemed to be telling the truth.
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I believe you man. But they are high if they think they can use Gruden to misdirect and we’ll be cool with it.
 
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Anyone outside of Gruden, Kelly or Frost....


And I may seriously just find a new sport to watch. I’m not even kidding. I may just got back to watching baseball or even racing. I don’t know. But I do know I can’t take this mediocre **** anymore.
 
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As I have checked up this thread and posted in few others I have come to the conclusion that the only way to have conversation is to debate. JG threads are a lot of fun but at the end of the day there is no info, only disagreements and chest beating. If we have been trolled by many that we trust then shame on them. If JG has trolled us along then #^<k him too. This fan base deserves more than a troll job. But I believe what I have been told so I will keep my hopes high. WE HAVE OUR GUY!...

On a side note. Is there a thread on this site that has actual conversation or is all just arguments? I love this place but it is a damn shame that no one can have a real conversation about football. I see all the time people having conversations about everything but UT football. What Gives???...
 
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Growing up I caught the end of the Battle era. We were bad and bama started the first streak on us. It was the time of not many games on TV. My friends and I would toss around the football and listen to THE GREAT JOHN WARD.Year after year bama would win till finally I was grown. U.S. Marines 1982 on USS Iwo Jima middle of the Atlantic Ocean 2 a.m. My friends straight from the message center woke me up and gave me a paper message, No.1 Alabama lost to Tennessee 35-28. I was elated,how long I had waited for that, carried that that paper around at all times.When I went home on leave my Dad gave me a present, cassette tape of the John Ward broadcast of the game. Went to my backyard,got my old football tossed it in air listened.I was transformed back into my youth,but this time TENNESSEE WON ! Better than that a lot of those same guys and myself watched together as we put two win streaks on bama,5 SEC Titles, Peyton and a National Championship. Hang together my fellow Vols we will be back and with the right coach sooonn!
 
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there is a battle between the "Deep State" of coach search world (Sexton) and boosters who want nothing to do with that corrupt network. Lets see who wins.
 
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daj2576 said:
I dunno. It’s as plausible as many of the other theories in here.

Gruden loves UT, wife a cheerleader, etc, right?

What if the AD knew he wasn’t interested, and knew many of the fans and boosters would be upset unless a run was made at him?

In that case, it could be useful to have him run interference to make the appearance that you’re going after him. Enthusiastic pocket books open up. At the point you have your coach locked up, Gruden announces he’s declining the job. You then have proof offer was made, and you tried to lay out the big bucks and go after the hire many wanted, you get the benefit of motivated boosters, and can wrap up the candidate you wanted without having Volnation sniffing out the deal and wondering why you weren’t going after Gruden anyway. So many have said “as long as they show they’re willing to try, I’ll be happy; “make him say no”, etc. In this scenario, everybody wins, except those that only wanted Gruden (who in this hypothetical was never an option anyway).

Edit: to extrapolate further, I presume it can be very damaging for an AD to appear to make multiple offers and strike out (as is often the case). If the fan base is in such a frenzy over Gruden, no one is listening to the noise they don’t want to hear (ie UT interested in -insert non Gruden name here). That could make someone like Gruden a valuable deception commodity.
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This was one of the theories in the great stalking horse debate.

I hope not. I'd lose a lot of respect for those involved, including Gruden.
 
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Is this the first time its fallen apart twice in just a couple of hours?

Or, did it ever actually recoup from the first?
 
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SWFLvol33 said:
I'm still pissed off gruden talked about UT on the radio when he told the producers not to ask. WTF
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Posted this at the end of Thread 38..
Didn’t see it posted on here today..
This podcast is from this morning..
They start talking about the coaching searches around 22:00 minutes..
Paul said last Monday Gruden had a executive from ESPN call him, and told him to tell Paul he wasn’t interested in the Tennessee job, but two days later he wouldn’t deny it on Mike & Mike..
Plus you throw in the Seattle interview that your talking about..
If the AD, or Gruden doesn’t squash it tomorrow publicly..
There is something going on for sure behind the scenes.
The media is lost.
 

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Vol4Life1313 said:
Yeah not sure I understand your mini-rant now .. lol contradicted yo’self &#128540;
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It's easy. At this point there are only two people who can change my mind about what's happened so far. Those would be John Currie and Jon Gruden. Call them the "principles." Anyone else speaking publicly on the search will not be able to shake my belief in what has happened already.

I literally cannot be clearer than this.
 
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