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GhostofNeyland said...

This post, in my humble opinion -- and no offense -- is ridiculous.

I said this to a friend this morning, and I'll repeat it here. He asked, "What has Dave Hart done to make you trust him" in response to me telling him that I trust Dave Hart. My response was as follows:

He barked up a tree that has been dead for four years and $18 million fell down.

He hired Anthony Grant at Alabama.

He hired Jimbo Fisher to be HC in waiting at FSU.

Pushed Bowden out and Jimbo in, leading to the re-emergence of FSU

He -- from most of my Alabama buddies -- essentially ran that athletic department at UA from a day-to-day operations standpoint while he was there.

He got our fundraising back on track to where it isn't governed by academics.

He consolidated the men's and women's athletic departments, cutting tons of dead weight and getting us more aligned with what every other university's athletic department in the country is, with a revenue stream that can eventually get us out of this hell.

That's all I got. But it's a pretty good track record so far.

He isn't some damn mole hired to sabotage our athletic department. He's a really good AD. Believe it or not, but he is.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

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JPSke said...

He can hire the best coach available, but he still put this program through needless embarrassment and set up the next coach for unnecessary difficulty. If we weren't going to do what it took to get Gruden or he wasn't a realistic possibility this should have been nipped in the bud a long time ago.

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Alexdykes22 said...

The only people who put the university through needless embarrassment was US. Dave Hart...Specifically Dave Hart never said a word about Jon Gruden at all. With good reason because of US. We took a bunch of unverified rumors, Speculation, and did what FANS do with something like this. Blow it up. Pouring gas on a fire only makes for a bigger fire. Dave Hart played it the best that he could. JG did not want to coach at Tennessee. We are not an embarrassment. People swing and miss all of the time. Dave Hart took a shot. It didn't work out. We will now move forward. GO

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JPSke said...

There are a huge group of people on this website who seem to get a kick out of going after anyone who says things aren't rainbows and lollipops, but I just don't see how you can look at the preponderance of evidence and pretend like "well, we gave it a shot and it just didn't work out". Trying to put the best possible spin on it to make yourself feel better seems pointless to me.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

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JPSke said...

There is no evidence other than you hoping that Hart took a big swing at Gruden and missed. All we know is there were lots of rumors and apparently it didn't happen. In fact last night it was reported on this website that the problem was actually money and it wasn't until later that evening when people started getting mad that Wes suddenly comes back with new sources saying "Oh no, it wasn't money, it was that Gruden didn't want it". You honestly think this whole thing was made up? They talked, they didn't come to an agreement, and now it's probably over. That's all we know. John Brice came straight out and said last night when this whole thing was blowing up that if they hired Gruden it would be against Hart's wishes. I don't understand how anyone with a brain can look at this and just accept what is being said today on its face value.

The evidence clearly points toward Hart never being onboard with going after Gruden. We can move on now and hope we land a great coach, but that doesn't change anything about what happened in the last 72 hours.

There are a huge group of people on this website who seem to get a kick out of going after anyone who says things aren't rainbows and lollipops, but I just don't see how you can look at the preponderance of evidence and pretend like "well, we gave it a shot and it just didn't work out". Trying to put the best possible spin on it to make yourself feel better seems pointless to me.