Alabama football’s Nick Saban would utterly intimidate the Tennessee Volunteers’ dream coach, Jon Gruden.
The University of Tennessee fired their head coach, Butch Jones, on November 12th. Since then, “Grumors” have run wild on Knoxville. Tennessee fans continue their strange obsession with former NFL coach, Jon Gruden. The Volunteers speculate that Gruden would dominate the competition, but I am here to say that Alabama football and Nick Saban would utterly intimidate Jon Gruden.
Nick Saban sits at the pinnacle point of the college football mountain. He surrounds himself with five National Championships, seven SEC Championships, ten SEC Western Championships, and one MAC Championship.
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You can also include that he is a multi-award winning coach of the year (2x AP, 2x Eddie Robinson, and 4x SEC). Coach Saban has an astonishing 216-61-1 record as a college football head coach and is the only coach in history to appear in all three of the College Football Playoffs.
Jon Gruden on the other hand, the so-called savior of the Tennessee Volunteers, doesn’t have such an impressive resume. Gruden has not coached a football team in nine years, and he hasn’t coached a college league team in over twenty-six years.
The majority of the SEC and their athletic directors would glance at Jon Gruden, and then snicker under their breath. This isn’t what a football program is looking for. The Tennessee Volunteers have proved to be a different breed on and off of the field; so their strange obsession over Jon Gruden comes at no surprise.
For those that want to use the 2003 Super Bowl victory as a push for Jon Gruden’s success, let me remind you that Tampa Bay was loaded with impressive and outstanding athletes that Tony Dungy and his staff had brought forward. Under Jon Gruden, the Buccaneers, similar to the Oakland Raiders, quickly began to fall apart.
It is very clear that Jon Gruden is not interested in the Tennessee head coaching vacancy. He will continue to troll the Volunteers, flourishing his ego, and return back to his six million dollar fantasy job on Monday Night Football. College football is just too much for the “Grudnenator”. The recruiting, the modernized coaching, the SEC; it’s all too much.
Nick Saban and the entire world of college football intimidates Jon Gruden.
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Not even the Vols can strikeout on four straight coaching hires, can they? Unless they bring back Lane Kiffin or make Brady Hoke permanent, the next Vols head coach will be an improvement. Kiffin would be a coaching improvement but too risky with his off-field antics.