re: Why in the WORLD would Tennessee fans want Jon Gruden??

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So we don’t have to hear bull shite like “Tennessee should hire Les Miles” like we are some second rate program that should be happy to grab the leftovers after the top teams are done with them.

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How many football games have your feelings won?

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How many football games have your feelings won?

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None. It’s silly to think improving the programs image isn’t a good thing, but it’s just one of the reasons I like the hire. He’s just by far the best option, if he really is an option. Frost is a distant second.

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None. It’s silly to think improving the programs image isn’t a good thing

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It’s not but why do you guys think a coach that hasn’t coached in a decade and is living off 1 SB win but an otherwise fairly mediocre record is they guy to do that? Because of TV he’ll be known and create some buzz that will wear off quickbif he doesn’t win.

His drafts at Tampa were also awful.

Out of 16 players he picked in rds 1-3 from 2002-2008 none made the pro bowl. Add in his love for having a difficult offense with crazy long terminology(Doug Nussmeier anyone?) and this would be a train wreck. This would be Bill Callahan at Nebraska or Weis at ND bad. PLEASE HIRE HIM TENNESSEE.

I couldnt agree more with this. Why would you want him?? He is a great commentator. He needs to stick with that. Tennessee would be making a huge mistake. I would rather a young coordinator than him.

Guess I'll just post this again.



I mean, of course a kid would wanna play for a coach that won a Super Bowl and built another team that made it to a super bowl.

Of course a kid would want to play for a guy with 28 years of NFL coaching experience and a guy that won his division 5 out of 11 years. A guy with too many NFL connections to count.

Of course a QB would want to play for a coach that has so much expertise that he has his own show on the biggest sports network in the world dedicated to the position.

I just don't get it.........derp,derp,derp

On top of that you get a coach with tons of personality and charisma that every football player/fan in the world recognizes.

Dude is a football junkie that has continued to study and develop the game.

That said, there's a chance that it wouldn't work out in the long run, but I'm pretty sure most any program in the country would be willing to take that chance.

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mean, why would any kid wanna play for a coach that won a Super Bowl and built another team that made it to a super bowl. Why would any kid want to play for a guy with 28 years of NFL coaching experience and a guy that won his division 5 out of 11 years? A guy with too many NFL connections to count.

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Usually when someone answers a question with a question it’s because they don’t have an answer to the question that was asked, this is even more so when they aren’t even addressing the question that was asked. I mean if someone asked if he could recruit you question/answer would at least fit

My question to you would be what makes you think kids that were born around the time he won said Super Bowl would care? I’m pretty sure there are lots of people that have NFL connections but what does that matter to a player? Someone that wants to get into coaching/the front office/broadcasting sure but I’m pretty sure the NFL found guys at Tennessee with Dooley and Jones as coaches.

The rest of the resume is overrated. We like to think that it takes some special great coach to win the SB but it blinds us to the holes in his resume. Brian Billiack, Gary Kubiack and Tony Dungy all won Super Bowls and have tons of NFL connections I’m sure so why not them?

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Usually when someone answers a question with a question it’s because they don’t have an answer to the question that was asked, this is even more so when they aren’t even addressing the question that was asked. I mean if someone asked if he could recruit you question/answer would at least fit

My question to you would be what makes you think kids that were born around the time he won said Super Bowl would care? I’m pretty sure there are lots of people that have NFL connections but what does that matter to a player? Someone that wants to get into coaching/the front office/broadcasting sure but I’m pretty sure the NFL found guys at Tennessee with Dooley and Jones as coaches.

The rest of the resume is overrated. We like to think that it takes some special great coach to win the SB but it blinds us to the holes in his resume. Brian Billiack, Gary Kubiack and Tony Dungy all won Super Bowls and have tons of NFL connections I’m sure so why not them?

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Wow, your entire post is really vague, meandering bunches of nothing. If you can't figure out why a player would wanna play for him, and how he'd have a good chance of being successful, then there's really no point in trying to have an intelligent conversation with you.

Edit: Changed the answers out of question form since you were unable to pickup sarcasm as being the reason I did it that way.

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Changed the answers out of question form since you were unable to pickup sarcasm as being the reason I did it that way

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Oh I got the sarcasm but you didn’t answer the question that was asked.

Since Kiffin there's been a big hole in recruiting. Butch pulled some big names but it was mostly guys that Richt and Saban didn't want. He was never a real threat to build a top tier program.

Jon Gruden's name would help a lot with recruiting. I'm not sure what kind of staff he would put together but I think we're just ready to see a guy who can compete for top recruits again. I see some of the reasoning behind Gruden, but I'd rather have Chip Kelly to be honest.