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pcorange writes:

in response to movol53:

Any coach that is worth our attention will still be involved with his current team until at least the last week of Dec / or first week of Jan 2013. The exception would be Gruden who will wait until later in Jan 2013 to see if and which NFL team maybe interested in hiring him. So from where I sit it looks like we are going to"loss" one recruiting class. 18 year olds will not wait until the last minute; even for someone who won a Super Bowl when they were 4 o 5 years old. These young ones probably have no clue who Gruden is except that they see him on ESPN; as an announcer. And may think - - if Gruden is still a good coach then why his he not coaching somewhere?

If Gruden is recruiting them then he will be coaching somewhere. If I were him, and sitting in a major recruit's living room, I'd get the perfect angle on that Super Bowl ring so that the light reflected perfectly off it. Even if it is 10 years old, they will take notice. As good as Saban is, he can boast neither an above .500 record nor a Super Bowl victory. Not saying Gruden can outrecruit Bama, at least not in the first couple of years. But, if he is as good a coach as we hope he is, the wins will come, then the recruits will start pouring in. There is nothing fundamentally flawed about UT, we've just been on a down cycle and recruiting has followed suit. You have to win to get the top recruits to want to play for you.

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