The last thing I heard was that Haslam offered to pay for Butches entire buyout to get Gruden the job.
But... The AA must change their ways an offer Gruden Saban type or more money to get him to buy in and the aa vs the ad department warfare most stop.
It's the same deal that Bama went threw before Saban would commit and it took 3 months to get the job done before Saban would sign.
This is a power struggle of the highest degree and the AA could careless about the tradition or the fan base.
It's going to take all of Ut's big time booster's to come together and show the AA, who's the boss and threaten the cut the AA off at the knee's to get the job done.
If this thing crumbles and we have to go with another unproven small time coach again, then the program has been lost for good.
We have the facilities / fan base and there is no reason that the program has dropped to the absolute bottom of the SEC. We could have and should have been dominating the East for years and this is a national embarrassment.
As a Vols fan... You never lose to UK or Vandy... in football, period.