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There’s no doubt that current ESPN analyst and former NFL head coach Jon Gruden is one of the hottest potential coaching prospects available for college football programs looking for a replacement.
Most recently, Gruden has been tied to two program openings in particular: the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Tennessee Volunteers.
What I deem to be a fairly reasonable source, and a well-connected one at that tweeted out earlier today that in fact an offer had already been made to Gruden.
Jim Harris, one of the founders of the now-defunct Arkansas 360, which was, in its time one of the better sources on Arkansas sports, tweeted the following this afternoon:
https://twitter.com/jimharris360/status/270613177270685696
There’s also a Facebook page dedicated to persuading Gruden to make his way to Fayetteville:
Needless to say, the Razorback faithful would be more than happy to have the coach known as “Chucky” due to his pained facial expressions during games roaming the sidelines next fall in Fayetteville.
After all, John L. Smith is a dead-man-walking and the speculation was going to start sooner than later anyway.
Common knowledge is that Arkansas will eventually be embroiled in a full-scale bidding war with the Tennessee Volunteers, who recently fired Derek Dooley and are looking for a big splash hire to bring some relevancy back to a program which was once so proud and among the SEC’s elite.
Has Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long fired the first shot here?
We’ll find out soon.
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Kris Hughes is the College Football Network Manager for Rant Sports and a member of the Football Writers Association of America. You can follow him on Twitter or check out his Facebook page.
Kris is the host of Rant Sports Radio on the Blog Talk Radio Network Wednesday evenings at 8 Central Time.
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