Official Jon Gruden Thread XVII

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Volfan76 said:
I'm not familiar with this sidekick. I do enjoy "Vol Colonel" and "X" but the "Orange Throat" guy is the epitome of a sunshine pumper and I consider anything he says as basically useless. Any thoughts on Beano?
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Beano is very level headed and keeps tTony in check whenever he is on the show with him. He's a super nice guy and Tony's show is even better when he is on there. I have never heard him try to break news on the show or act like he has inside info before, though. But it's definitely possible that he knows something. The other Basilio personalities you mentioned are usually the ones acting like they are insiders.
 
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1725gatorhater said:
I like listening to Basilio and Beano. Burned out of Erik Ainge especially how he likes to sugarcoat everything Butch does.
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Basilio's show is an acquired taste. I wasn't crazy about it at first but now I love it. It feels like family and that guy does so much for the community. It's really impressive what he has accomplished on his own.
 
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Volfan76 said:
I'm not familiar with this sidekick. I do enjoy "Vol Colonel" and "X" but the "Orange Throat" guy is the epitome of a sunshine pumper and I consider anything he says as basically useless. Any thoughts on Beano?
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Beano seems like a real good guy. He loves UT and tells it like it is. If he said Gruden was in town then I'd believe him.
 
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TN-POSSUM said:
Beano seems like a real good guy. He loves UT and tells it like it is. If he said Gruden was in town then I'd believe him.
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It's not crazy to think Gruden would be in Knoxville. He will be in Nashville on Monday for the Titans/Colts game, and his son is a student at UT. Wouldn't be crazy for him to visit.

He certainly won't be meeting with Currie, though.
 
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patrick said:
Beano reporting that Gruden is on campus today.

Soon!
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He may be on campus but I would highly doubt. as a former coach, he would go behind another coaches back to talk to the AD about the job. That is like some unwritten rule. Now if Butch is fired post Bama and Gruden rolls into Knoxville the next week, we may have a reason to get excited
 
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tvolsfan said:
It's not crazy to think Gruden would be in Knoxville. He will be in Nashville on Monday for the Titans/Colts game, and his son is a student at UT. Wouldn't be crazy for him to visit.

He certainly won't be meeting with Currie, though.
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Agreed for sure. to think a meeting would be insane unprofessional and silly but..... a bumping into now that is a horse of a whole different color
 
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Sin City Vol said:
He may be on campus but I would highly doubt. as a former coach, he would go behind another coaches back to talk to the AD about the job. That is like some unwritten rule. Now if Butch is fired post Bama and Gruden rolls into Knoxville the next week, we may have a reason to get excited
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LakeMaryFLVol said:
Agreed for sure. to think a meeting would be insane unprofessional and silly but..... a bumping into now that is a horse of a whole different color
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Now, just to stoke the flames a little, if Tennessee loses tomorrow and Jones is fired on Sunday or Monday, it may be worth checking if Gruden remains in Tennessee for a little after the Titans/Colts game.
 
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November Blue said:
Analogy time.

If you are a citizen of North Korea and it could/should be like South Korea who is in the wrong in such a situation? The people spreading a message of hope and optimism or of misery and injustice?

Now, you say, "bad analogy. Because sports are not like living conditions in countries, they aren't as important." And right you would be. But you would be wrong to assume that those who have been negative about Tennessee football are negative about everything else about life or are miserable people to be around. Badly wrong.
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Critique of analogy time.

For your analogy to work (that we are all DPRK residents, with some happy, and some attempting to inject 'reality'), then you are saying the happy-message spreaders are celebrating a tyrant, a dictator (as they do in Pyongyang). Does that mean that you think Gruden would be the coaching equivalent of Kim Jon-ung? :blink:

We do not celebrate the tyrant; we celebrate his successor.

A better example, to continue with your choice of analogies, is that we are ALL DPRK citizens, suffering under the brutal, incompetent yoke of the current coaching administration....with some of us daring to wish for liberty and freedom in its truest sense ('murica!), and others wanting a better life, but not TOO much better....going from North Korea to, say, the old Soviet Union. These folk would love to go to America, too, in theory.....but they think its unrealistic and will not happen. And because, in their minds it will not happen...then it should not be discussed.

It's all good, we all dream our dream of a better life in different ways....but , for some reason, the USSR-folk get resentful that the America-folk are thinking bigger...that they want more...that they aren't happy with the same ole same ole. So they decide to come over and pour cold water on any all talk of America.

"Don't you know you'll never see America? Foolish Koreans! Stop talking about it! If you are lucky, you might see Moscow or East Berlin!"

You are right in that I don't really know whether you are as miserable and negative about the rest of your life as you come across here. But I can only extrapolate based on the available evidence, and to me, anyone who deliberately makes a special effort to spread negativity into a positive thread that was minding its own business, not bothering anyone else, is probably a pretty negative person. I am open to a re-evaluation, of course :)

As for me and my house, I refuse to abandon the dream. The Great Grude is, as Reagan once said, akin to a "shining city upon a hill," a beacon of light, a renaissance of coaching acumen and authority, bringing hope, joy, and championships to all long-suffering Vol fans who have lived in the SEC shadows for far, far too long.

The future belongs to those who dream big and resist discouragement. Immeasurably brighter days are ahead, because The Great Grude is coming.






Soon.
 
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