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Fox Sports college football reporter Bruce Feldman reporting that Butch Jones has been fired. Been a long time coming for him.

Florida already open, Nebraska about to open, and good chance UCLA, Arkansas, and A&M have openings too. Going to be a lot of competition to find a coach.

interim head coach will be none other than Brady Hoke. Didn't even realize he was on the Vols staff. At least Tennessee will get to save some money on headsets rest of the way.

I like the idea of Cutcliffe. Not sure the fans and big donors will get behind him considering his age and the desire to land a big name. Jon Gruden to Tennessee rumors commencing in...1...2...3....

It's so sad - on the SEC board, nearly every post about this mentions Gruden.  They just can't help themselves.  

yeah, I never got the Gruden thing with them. He was an assistant college coach early on in the 80s for like two years. After that it was all NFL. He was an NFL coach for like 20 years. Does he really want to recruit? Has he ever really done it? He's not from the state of Tennessee. He's from Ohio. He's turned down NFL gigs since getting into broadcasting. He hasn't coached a football team since 2008. Almost 10 years. What makes them think he's dying to coach Tennessee? I just don't get it.
Gruden's "dream job" when he was a young pup was coaching at Michigan. Not Tennessee.

Delusional. He ain't gonna go to Tennessee. Or anywhere most likely.

I'm with you. Tennessee just might be so desperate though they would offer him a contract worth $9-10 million a year.

He probably making close to that right now, with zero stress. Remember he's a high stress guy - much like Urban. I don't know if he could handle a pressure cooker like Tennessee. They would expect MNC's every year if they had him. And then there's the whole recruiting thing that he's never done.

that is insane that he makes that much on tv. No wonder why ESPN is laying off shitloads of people. They pay these tv personalities way too much effing money. I thought MOST he'd be making doing that job would be like 750k. It's a part time job and there's only 16 MNF games. That is probably THE MAX it's worth. People don't tune in to listen to the broadcaster. They tune in to watch a good game. Problem for the NFL lately has been it's too over-saturated with prime time night games and the games they do schedule for night games pretty much suck. They need to just kill Thursday night off and they should make sure they are getting a Steelers-Patriots or Cowboys-Eagles prime time type games every week. Nobody wants to watch the freaking Colts take on the Jaguars or the Browns take on the 49ers in prime time. They want to watch the marquee players on the marquee winning teams go up against each other in prime time.

They tune in to bitch about the broadcaster...

Lol. I watch most games college or pro with the volume on really low. Sometimes even mute if the announcers are really bad. The only guy I seem to enjoy listening to is Tony Romo. He's so knowledgeable and calls things out before they happen like he's Nostradamus. Can definitely see why he was such a good QB for so many years.

I'm with you. Tennessee just might be so desperate though they would offer him a contract worth $9-10 million a year.

Thought I read he's getting paid 7 mil per by BSPN.Not certain what the infatuation is with him anyway.Easy mullah for talking shiite