Official Jon Gruden Thread 33

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"I expect Jon Gruden to be in Knoxville in the next few days. Possibly to 'visit his son'. Using quotation marks"

- Trey Wallace.

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When asked if he's interested in leaving the booth and if he's having conversations about coaching positions, he literally said:

  • I may recommend someone else if people want to ask.
  • I may want to some day, but
  • Right now I'm trying to keep my current job.

Since UT is in fact a coaching job, he answered that question. Since UT is in fact not the ESPN MNF color analyst job, he answered that question a second time.

Like I said, I don't think one can take those statements at face value. One has to just wait and see how it all turns out--just like Saban, etc...

But also like I said, one can't rationally say that he hasn't said it, so he must be interested.

That's all I'm saying.

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247 Board is on Fire right now! One member claiming it could be announced this week has in-laws in AD... he also has other respected posters vouching for his info. Also Blackjack999 who JAV said to listen too when it comes to Gruden said “Lot of people excited today”

SOOOOON

Could I trouble anyone for a screenshot??
 
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Negative afaik.

2 "things" happened

1) usual "watch to see if he wears orange tie" came up. Blue tie.

2) post-game with SVP - he told Gruden cant wait till next weeks game and Grude looked down and said a quick goodbye. Body language people would say this tends to mean you are concealing something or do not agree with what is being said.

Blue tie??? OMG, that means for sure he is taking the Giants job after they fire McAdoo.
 
I'm hearing good things from my friend in the AD - he doesn't have any specific info but said that the past couple of days have been the most enjoyable days he has had at work since he started. He also mentioned a lot of commotion in and around the office, as to be expected. The funniest thing he said was a TV was turned to MNF last night and it is rarely on anything but Vols promo or SEC network videos.
 
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He’ll be asked tomorrow on his Mike and Mike spot. They asked last time once the job was officially opened.

Following that Mike & Mike segment in 2012 was one of the better moments on this site. People were losing their minds breaking down every word Gruden said. Even when asked and he said "no" it didn't stop the conspiracy theorists from weighing in.
 
247 Board is on Fire right now! One member claiming it could be announced this week has in-laws in AD... he also has other respected posters vouching for his info. Also Blackjack999 who JAV said to listen too when it comes to Gruden said “Lot of people excited today”

SOOOOON

It’s happening isn’t it. :)
 
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As an original from Gruden I the info is coming from a lot more places than last time and it was coming from a lot of places in 2012. Starting to truly get the hopes up.

My 2012 hangover is dissipating. I went from big toe in the water to the entire foot up to just below the ankle.
 
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Not entirely correct Face created a fake post in the RF - the same one that's been going around facebook.... however my understanding is that babyvol posted on TOS that something is happening Thursday

Let's remember that babyvol said "may" be happening Thursday.

I really hope for his sake he learned his lesson from 2012. He's no troll, and he definitely has sources. But his sources are only on one side. It will take multiple sides to come together to get this thing done. I have growing confidence that it could actually happen this time. I think our fanbase deserves it. This place will go nuts.
 
When asked if he's interested in leaving the booth and if he's having conversations about coaching positions, he literally said:

  • I may recommend someone else if people want to ask.
  • I may want to some day, but
  • Right now I'm trying to keep my current job.

Since UT is in fact a coaching job, he answered that question. Since UT is in fact not the ESPN MNF color analyst job, he answered that question a second time.

Like I said, I don't think one can take those statements at face value. One has to just wait and see how it all turns out--just like Saban, etc...

But also like I said, one can't rationally say that he hasn't said it, so he must be interested.

That's all I'm saying.

He did nothing to shoot down the rumors with those quotes. You could add the sentence I may take the UT coaching job without making any of the quotes any less accurate.
 
Never once I have a claim to be a good person or do I care what someone thinks of me on a message board. Most people I have meet from VolNation seem pretty decent (even met StoVol at RichRollin's funeral), so good chance they are better people than me. That said this thread's negativity towards anyone that doesn't drink the kool aid is pretty petty. Still all I pointed out was this thread wants to be an echo chamber, and that is 100% true.

To be clear I think everyone is dying for it to be Gruden, but as you know we remember how much we were led to believe in 2012 by this board that it was. Now here we are again. You know the saying 'fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me'? This pretty much how I feel right now. So please let some of these rumors be true, but not fault the people for not wanting to be brunt by rumors a second time. Maybe if this thread did a better job of recognizing why some people are not getting on the train and that not getting on train doesn't mean they don't want Gruden. It just means they don't trust the internet.

I have been here all the time and read this thread carefully .... I do because I HOPE for Gruden, but was burnt in 2012 and I AGREE with most of your post..

Especially about the part that those "in the know" so to speak refuse to recognize the difficulties we who were stung the last time have accepting "Every Post" on the internet at face value verses what we are told by people we know
 
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I'm hearing good things from my friend in the AD - he doesn't have any specific info but said that the past couple of days have been the most enjoyable days he has had at work since he started. He also mentioned a lot of commotion in and around the office, as to be expected. The funniest thing he said was a TV was turned to MNF last night and it is rarely on anything but Vols promo or SEC network videos.

Did they notice he wasn’t as into the game? I definitely noticed this
 
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247 Board is on Fire right now! One member claiming it could be announced this week has in-laws in AD... he also has other respected posters vouching for his info. Also Blackjack999 who JAV said to listen too when it comes to Gruden said “Lot of people excited today”

SOOOOON

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