There Are Rumors Swirling All Over the Place About Jon Gruden Taking His Talents To Tennessee And I'm All In

OH BOY OH BOY! Gruden rumors! GRUMORS! I love em. I eat ‘em up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Every year it seems we go down this rabbit hole of Jon Gruden possibly leaving the Monday Night Football booth he so dearly loves, to get back into coaching. He’s been linked to Texas twice, along with basically any open NFL coaching vacancy all for those to be squashed by the everlasting narrative that he loves his MNF job. It’s such a sick and cock-teasing cycle of rumors because all we want is for Chuckie to get back on the field. Why you might ask? Well, because of stuff like this

Anyways, so let’s dive into the rumor mill…or as some are coining it the Grumor Mill.

This all comes from a Tennessee Message Board of course. College team’s message boards are insane and are a crazy place to get lost in. You’ll find rumors of all kind, but Jon Gruden rumors are Jon Gruden rumors. So what do we got?

**The paraphrased/shortened rumors come from the websites 247Sports.com and Saturday Down South

Take it as you will, but multiple insiders on Vol Nation and now Volquest are murmuring that Gruden looks like a very real possibility. Apparently Gruden had a dinner Friday with important people, in which Tennessee essentially asked him to name his price. The idea is that the search team, from the Neyland Foundation to Manning and Fulmer, have admitted to Gruden they messed up in 2012 and are not pursuing other options until he either says yes or no.

A Gruden HC/ Jim Bob Cooter OC with JBC inheriting the gig once Gruden leaves no longer seems like a pipe dream. [Insiders] have stated that Gruden has already started looking for assistants. I’d link the relevant forums but this all came to me through a conversation with a friend in the admin office and my brother, who is a Tennessee forum addict. Just relaying the info I’ve received.

The best is when we find out they had dinner with “important people.” That just gets my juices flowing. Nothing like a 5 star steakhouse dinner where you talk nothing but Tennessee football. They whipped out the checkbook and told Gruden to name his price. From what I gather Gruden makes around $6.5 million a year from his MNF gig, so in order to pry him away from that sort of easy dream job you have to imagine Tennessee is willing to pay at least $10 mill a year to persuade Chuckie. AT LEAST.

-Gruden is THE candidate at this time. All eggs are being thrown into the “Grusket.”

-Gruden had planned to be here this weekend for a while. He told others it was to buy his son a property to finish out his UT career. He’s already a junior, so buy a property for 18 months’ use? Maybe, maybe not.

-Friend’s uncle is a real estate agent who is tight with the agent the Grudens use. They’ve been looking for a while for area home because Cindy [wife of Gruden] knows her parents are getting older, and she wants somewhere to go to be close to them. Yes, they also own Jeff County land. There is some intel that properties they looked at are too expensive for a college junior to live in, and an offer may be in the works.

-Friend knows Cindy’s college roommate, and she said things this weekend that led people to believe that Cindy has some excitement about “spending more time in East Tennessee in the near future.”

We’ve got insider family knowledge! Friend’s uncle is the real estate agent! Might as well be Jay Gruden if we’re being honest. I mean this a done deal folks. Jon Gruden is heading to Knoxville to bring the program back from the dead. Tennessee tried in 2012 to swing Gruden away from ESPN but didn’t go all out, and that caused Chuckie to pass. Now it seems they’re all in. To quote the message boards they’re putting everything in the GRUSKET!

I’m a Syracuse football so I don’t have a dog in this fight obviously, but I’m all in on Gruden to Tennessee. Hell let’s bring Peyton in as the AD while we’re at it. A possible Nick Saban vs. Jon Gruden and Peyton Manning Western Standoff is everything I need in life right now.

Please let these Grumors become reality because I NEED Chuckie back on the sideline. If you need time to kill today watch this Gruden Mic’d up bonanza.