Thats fine you know people that are donors and what not. Ive just stated that Im not believing what is posted on here until hits the some reliable sources. On tuesday I didnt believe a thing about Watson, Gilmore, and Sanders, but by Wednesday night I was proved pretty much wrong, which doesnt bother me.
By way everything you posted about the reasons Grobe wasnt hired is pretty much common knowledge. Now about Bo having an agreement that he was gonna be the head coach after Okie Lite cant be true. Didnt T.O. just takeover the AD position about that time. Based on your theory/timetable TO wouldve had to get permission from Wake Forest and LSU before he agreed to become AD. Then go to atlanta and interview Grobe, tell him he had to hire Frankies guys. Which some were still employed by the other universities. Then do the samething with Bo, this process had start in September. Even if Tom did hire Bo after the OSU game then he would had to get permission from LSU which was in the middle of NC run, so I dont think that would have happened.
Plus, Tom wouldnt waste the schools and donors money(which is people you know apparently) flying around to do "mock" interviews. Grobe, Gill, Bo were the only 3 candidates with Grobe and Bo being the only serious 2 but all 3 interviewed. The reason Bo was hired was because help needed in the defensive department and that is the reason Watson and Gilmore were still here.
He was hired three days after the loss and had "unofficial" contact with him, kind of like Bo had with Miami this year in his first week here, TO knew who the fan base wanted and he also knew that Bo would hire his guys back, so it was a win-win for TO. He talked to Grobe after the season a few days after talking to Bo in BR. As for Frank's assistants, Most of them were not working and the others who were employed would come back, there was no need to officially talk to them about any job.
The last paragraph you are just being naive. TO is huge on perception and would do anything to stay in the good graces of NU and it's fans. For the school 75K isn't that much money, but it was all a show to give the perception that there was a legit coaching search when there wasn't. Grobe was the equivalent to any token black coach that gets interviewed in the NFL under the Rooney rule. You are right about Watson and Gilmore and it worked for the first year, but then we ran out of good QB's and Bo started to micromanage the offense and now our offense is the equivalent to that 2007 defense.
After Sanders and (hopefully) Cotton are gone, how many of Franks guys are left from that 2003 staff not counting the Pelini's? Is there anybody left? I think the only one that moved on to become successful was Turner.