Tennessee Vols: Rumor About Jon Gruden Using Haslam’s Plane

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when Grumors fill the crisp fall air.

Rumors have circulated for a few weeks now that Jon Gruden is being targeted by the Tennessee Vols to be their next football coach.

College football reporter Trey Wallace dropped a bombshell on Thursday afternoon that Gruden is being allowed to use the Haslam’s plane on an “as needed basis”.

Wallace followed up this tweet by saying that it wasn’t a big secret that Gruden had been using the Haslam’s plane.

I don’t want to discount Wallace’s report, because I don’t have any first hand knowledge of what Gruden may or may not be doing, but I have seen tweets recently that suggested Gruden was flying commercial as recently as last weekend.

To be honest, I’m not really sure why the Haslam’s would need to let Gruden use their plane. Most of Gruden’s traveling revolves around his Monday Night Football schedule. ESPN is obviously paying for his travel to and from Monday Night Football.

Outside of that, I’m not really sure why Gruden would need the plane. Even if he’s been discussing some things with his family in person, it’s not like paying for an airplane ticket is a big deal for someone making over $6 million a year.

Perhaps it’s possible that his wife Cindy has been using it to travel back and forth from Tampa to Knoxville to see family. That’s about the only reasonable scenario I can come up with.

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Maybe the plane rumor is true, maybe it’s not. Either way, I still put the chances of Jon Gruden coaching at Tennessee next year at less than 5 percent (I only put it there because college football is consistently wild — and so is Jon Gruden).