Official Jon Gruden Thread XXIX

[Silky_Johnson]

Gruden to the Hill

Saban / Belichick Co-DC’s

 

[Stoked]

Can the VN servers handle a Gruden hire. Or would VN be shut down for a few days? Lol

 

[jp1]

Holy ****, Griff is such a tool. On local radio here ripping Chiz for criticizing Butch for the redshirt lol. I hate griff

I didn't understand why so many criticized Butch for this personally. The young man is free to redshirt any of the following years. In my mind, it was important to win the game.

 

[Silky_Johnson]

Can the VN servers handle a Gruden hire. Or would VN be shut down for a few days? Lol

They can barely handle a Florida loss

 

['Boro-vol]

If Gruden is indeed going to be the coach I'd much rather see an announcement before Dec 1st for recruiting purposes. I guess they could fire Butch on the 26th and announce the new coach on Monday the 27th and still get all the press they need before the SEC Championship game on Dec 2nd. Just speculating a possible timeline

The early signing period, though important, is secondary to doing what is necessary to secure this hire. If you hire Him, they will come.

If he needs time to work out his exit with ESPN, you give it to him. The only thing that matters is the hire....everything else will work itself out.

 

[spazzyvol]

I'd buy so many Gruden Tennessee shirts, one day I would have a freaking museum of Grude Apparel.

 

[jp1]

The early signing period, though important, is secondary to doing what is necessary to secure this hire. If you hire Him, they will come.

If he needs time to work out his exit with ESPN, you give it to him. The only thing that matters is the hire....everything else will work itself out.

Agree 100%

 

[Sparkyvol10]

Man this ride has been crazy. It’s obvious now butch is here til end of the season. I could definitely see a announcement happening week of the Vandy game with butch saying it is his last game. Hopefully followed by a hire announcement the week after the game imo. Just seems to make the most sense at this point.

 

[jakez4ut]

Biggest signal that's come out in the last few weeks is the decision to move forward with unveiling of stadium renovation plan. You don't do that if you're intending to roll with the status quo.

agreed. i dunno that it means Gruden, but i agree with the premise.

you don't spend $340M for 7-5 football for the next 20 years.

 

[photovol]

Creepy

It's back to Central Michigan for o'l purple face

 

[VolFan32]

The early signing period, though important, is secondary to doing what is necessary to secure this hire. If you hire Him, they will come.

If he needs time to work out his exit with ESPN, you give it to him. The only thing that matters is the hire....everything else will work itself out.

See Dooley, Derek.

 

[Stoked]

I didn't understand why so many criticized Butch for this personally. The young man is free to redshirt any of the following years. In my mind, it was important to win the game.

I've thought about this as well. It's not like he couldn't RS as a Sophomore next year. Also if he were to transfer at any time in his career, he could RS then too. I can't stand Butch, but people complaining about this issue are off-base imo.

 

[LakeMaryFLVol]

The Grude News, the morning edition. For those just joining us...

Man, what a 24 hours it's been. From highs to lows and back to highs again. If a designer could mimic Volnation's emotions into a roller coaster, it'd be the greatest in the world. Gruden would call it "wild, man. Just wild."

And the Gruden threads were moving faster than his betting line. Kind of hard to keep up, but that's why you are reading this, right?

Speaking of keeping up, we have a request by some posters to limit the off topic talk in the thread so they can get updates instead of filtering through 500 posts of Daniela dancing, gifs, countless "Gruden to the Hill!" posts and discussing brake jobs on aircraft in Pensacola during the 60s.

But nah. That's what makes this thread so awesome.

Ron Swanson, highly respected poster, dropped a truth bombs in the RF yesterday with the whole "DeerPark doesn't know any more than the coaching search than I do" comment. I know DP has brought good info in the past, but so has RS. Conflicted! And you have DTO with his 100% comments from Saturday. It's quite a mess folks. Information is not coming out as we might expect.

However, there seems to be a lot more smoke surrounding this hunt at the moment since more and more sportswriters and talking heads are picking up the Grumors stories. Even Paul Finebaum set down his life sized Nick Saban yard gnome for a moment and commented the rumors might have merit. Grumors are starting to reach national level attention, but no denials from either the Man himself or UT Athletics.

And no news is good news on that front.

But, apparently Barrett Sallee thinks Dan Mullen will be the next coach at UT. Not long after doing that little segment, he ended up with all sorts of flaming paper bags on his porch. However, being as nice as UT fans are, they drew smiley faces on them first.

Sallee made a public statement afterwards he was in the market for a new pair of boots.

SmokeyHuntsGators learned how to correctly apply spoiler tags last night. And in doing so, masked the traditional "Soon!" she loves posting.

Not really a spoiler when we know the ending, girlfriend.

And PreacherWebb also giggled while vowing to use said tags in at least the next 500 or so posts.

It was determined Nagle isn't a very good drunk poster. Ape vows to give him lessons in clarity.

Actually, it seems like more than a few posters were imbibing last night. Which happened to include yours truly getting a wink from an intoxicated poster...don't know if it's a girl or a guy. Freak, we really need gender tags.

And I'm still waiting on that Volnation Guru tag like you promised. Okay, Volly promised, but she represents you by proxy, so cough it up.

Trolls continue to invade, continue to get put on ignore and continue to get at least 15 GTFO's per post. However, look for them to be first in line after Gruden is announced with "I believed it all along." Of course, Fade will be crying while stroking his Fathead poster of Dan Mullen, but he'll come around eventually. Not exactly news there, but that's what we call "B Roll" in this line of business. Get used to it or GTFO, trolls.

3 days and a wake up until Doyle's trash pick up. But even if he throws out his old Grudometer, he'll eventually get the upgraded model that goes to 11.

In other news today, rumor has it the Gruden clan is getting together to possibly discuss Jon's move back into coaching. VolNation Enterprises Division of Sneaky Folks and Learning Secret Stuff has been put into action to potentially put said meeting under surveillance. However, the first day of training didn't go so well as Coasty got cranky after not having his morning prune juice and went on emotional roller coaster rides. Faceless got distracted while running into radio stations yelling "we're infiltrating the Gruden's party! How cool is that? And did you see that hot guy out front by the way?" Power T Rev got in trouble with the instructors after yelling "GTFO!" at them. Also, training was paused while instructors attempted to find a translator, but ultimately figured out nobody else spoke Ape.

Ads for replacements will be sent out on Craigslist later today according to sources.

From the entire Volnation News Team, I'm Grand Vol and human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!








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Awesome..Thank you again :rock:

 

[AmoebaVol]

I thought Chiz was a tool for ripping Butch as well.

We have games left on the schedule and JG gets beat like a drum. Completely unreasonable to assume he will be healthy the rest of the way.

Furthermore McBride can always redshirt next year if it’s an option.

People seem to ignore sound football decisions in order to pile on the dead horse.

Not a Butch fan (actually despise him), but what the hell else was he supposed to do? Line up Cimaglia back there?

 

['Boro-vol]

See Dooley, Derek.

Not this time. This is a make or break hire....no matter who it is. The early signing period instills some urgency into the situation, unless it endangers landing the White Whale.

 

[Volbrando]

just think of the marketing gold mine if they could work out an agreement with the chucky doll - tshirts, etc.

 

[UTLEGEND]

I want to hear people's honest predictions on our recruiting class rankings if Gruden is announced before the early signing period..

Imo top 3 would be a no brainer

 

[BurninOrange]

Wow - The passion and love for the game displayed in that interview is incredible!

Such a stark contract between JG and our current coach!

So refreshing!

Soon!

I thought so too. That is why I shared it! Notice he talked about the spread option and how he was studying that and how he has a version of it as well. He will be great for UT and will take us to the next level imo!

 

[VolFan32]

Not this time. This is a make or break hire....no matter who it is. The early signing period instills some urgency into the situation, unless it endangers landing the White Whale.

Right. I was referring to trying to save a class vs. making the right hire. Sorry.

 

[Squints]

The early signing period, though important, is secondary to doing what is necessary to secure this hire. If you hire Him, they will come.

If he needs time to work out his exit with ESPN, you give it to him. The only thing that matters is the hire....everything else will work itself out.

I want Butch gone as much as anyone, but you're correct, the hire is more important than the fire.

 

[Volbrando]

Not this time. This is a make or break hire....no matter who it is. The early signing period instills some urgency into the situation, unless it endangers landing the White Whale.

do we think the new coach will be announced after the last game (even if it's a bowl game?) or after MNF if it's Gruden (which is Christmas day)

 

[Ten_Titans]

From the Gruden thread and VQ:

LWS on VQ: "part of Gruden's control package is zero information coming out of the football program for public consumption. everything will be closed down"

Oh MY!

I would hope he means similar to how it is now. No injury information and limited media access to practice.

But who knows.

Not sure why a guy who turned down the job twice in a month is talking about this though. A little explanation on that would be nice.

 

[Devo182]

I am way behind.... will hopefully catch up by noon tomorrow unless I skip everything...lol

This statement by LWS is as confusing as he is...he has been here telling us that Gruden SAID NO... and said 0% chance he ever coaches in college.... I don't trust him at all on this....

Yes - he said Gruden told us no twice, but we keep bending and sweetening the pot. I've followed JAV and Larry throughout and they've been consistent with this. Still not confident he will say yes, but confident we are all in. That's all we can do.

 

[OrangeBlood4life]

I would really like to hear some opinions of some recruits on what they think of gruden.

 

['Boro-vol]

I want to hear people's honest predictions on our recruiting class rankings if Gruden is announced before the early signing period..

Imo top 3 would be a no brainer

I think he'll salvage a top-10....and next year's will be the big one.