It's up there with a daily reading of The Word of God for me right now...
"I don't know how close," Gruden said Thursday when asked if he was close to accepting the UT job when it opened after the 2012 season. "I love football. I'll be the first to tell you, I miss coaching. But I do look at my job here as a lot like coaching. I get a chance to be around it 364 days a year and I feel like I'm improving, but I don't have a team. Tennessee is a dream job for a lot of people, me included. Timing wasn't right."
- August of 2015: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...den-coaching-tennessee-volunteers-a-dream-job
"I haven’t lost the itch, though. I miss the players. I won’t deny that. I don’t want to start anything, but I say the same thing to everybody. There are very few passions in my life. The man upstairs, family and football.”
- July of 2017: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...paring-come-back-coaching-nfl-espn/520184001/
"It was great to be back. My wife and I are here this weekend. My wife went to Tennessee and cheered at Tennessee while I was a GA and we got to re-unite with Coach Majors and have some dinner. We were just reminiscing and talking about what Tennessee is all about and just the great impact Coach Majors has had on me. It was great to meet some of the (Tennessee) players, just a great couple days."
- 2012 Coaching Clinic at UT
"I coached high school this last year. I coached my son's high school offensive line this past year. I coach anybody.... Right now I don't put much thought into that. A coach can coach, whether it be high school, the pros, or college."
- 2012 Coaching Clinic at UT
"I saw Coach Battle and Coach Majors wearing those. But those look like loudmouth gear, a little too flashy for me. If you love Tennessee you wear any kind of orange you want."
- 2012 Coaching Clinic at UT
"Let's Go, Tennessee Vols Hahahahahaha"
- Cell Phone Video w/ Travis Stephens a few weeks ago
"I don't know how close," Gruden said Thursday when asked if he was close to accepting the UT job when it opened after the 2012 season. "I love football. I'll be the first to tell you, I miss coaching. But I do look at my job here as a lot like coaching. I get a chance to be around it 364 days a year and I feel like I'm improving, but I don't have a team. Tennessee is a dream job for a lot of people, me included. Timing wasn't right."
- August of 2015: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...den-coaching-tennessee-volunteers-a-dream-job
"I haven’t lost the itch, though. I miss the players. I won’t deny that. I don’t want to start anything, but I say the same thing to everybody. There are very few passions in my life. The man upstairs, family and football.”
- July of 2017: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...paring-come-back-coaching-nfl-espn/520184001/
"It was great to be back. My wife and I are here this weekend. My wife went to Tennessee and cheered at Tennessee while I was a GA and we got to re-unite with Coach Majors and have some dinner. We were just reminiscing and talking about what Tennessee is all about and just the great impact Coach Majors has had on me. It was great to meet some of the (Tennessee) players, just a great couple days."
- 2012 Coaching Clinic at UT
"I coached high school this last year. I coached my son's high school offensive line this past year. I coach anybody.... Right now I don't put much thought into that. A coach can coach, whether it be high school, the pros, or college."
- 2012 Coaching Clinic at UT
"I saw Coach Battle and Coach Majors wearing those. But those look like loudmouth gear, a little too flashy for me. If you love Tennessee you wear any kind of orange you want."
- 2012 Coaching Clinic at UT
"Let's Go, Tennessee Vols Hahahahahaha"
- Cell Phone Video w/ Travis Stephens a few weeks ago
