Why do people think Gruden would be a good college coach

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He has a reputation for being hated by players who basically forced him out of Tampa....college coaches have to be more likeable, especially where recruiting is concerned
 
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He had great success in Oakland, got a Super Bowl Ring in Tampa, is a damn good coach, and unless he's very lazy on the recruiting trail, would have incredible success here or at any school.
 
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He is an amazing coach as far as the game goes. He is horrible as far as player relation and team morale. Most coaches have teams that grow more successful over time, hius start successful and decline as morale does
 
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Dumbvolfan said:
He is an amazing coach as far as the game goes. He is horrible as far as player relation and team morale. Most coaches have teams that grow more successful over time, hius start successful and decline as morale does
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This. Because winning a Superbowl and elavating a terrible team to a Superbowl contender are meaningless.
 
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Dumbvolfan said:
He is an amazing coach as far as the game goes. He is horrible as far as player relation and team morale. Most coaches have teams that grow more successful over time, hius start successful and decline as morale does
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Gruden is very well-regarded among many of his former players. You have to remember that at the end of a coach's tenure, he's dealt with hundreds of players. (For a long-tenured college coach, it's in the thousands.) With all those personalities, it's very common to have dissenting opinions about their former coaches. For every 1 guy that has or shares a negative opinion, another 5 will come to his defense.

That's just the way it goes.
 
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I just want someone that when people look at our program they think WOW. Instead of man that place must suck if someone can't stay there for more then a year. Or who did they hire, never heard of him.
 
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I've always been very skeptical about Gruden. He won in Oakland, but the Raiders had a lot of talent back in those days. Gruden managed to keep Al Davis away long enough to put in a real offense, and that talent won until he had a falling-out with Davis. Bill Callahan came in and screwed it up within two years.

Then he won a Super Bowl, over dopey Callahan and Davis. That was the last good thing he ever did.

Over his last six years in Tampa, he was 45-53, and had two horrendous losing seasons.

I've always said that we fired a coach who won a championship and then went on to win two-thirds of his games for a decade after, and who had two losing seasons where he was just under .500.

I don't see the attraction to Gruden, other than he has experience in the "almighty" NFL (so did Al Groh and Callahan, not to mention a certain Lane Kiffin) and a wife who was a cheerleader at UT sometime back in the Reagan administration.
 
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Dumbvolfan said:
He has a reputation for being hated by players who basically forced him out of Tampa....college coaches have to be more likeable, especially where recruiting is concerned
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Yeah, cause Nick Saban is such a likeable guy! I could care less about personalitly. I WANT WINS!!!!!
 
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