Grubb Spotted in Town with Seahawks, Expected to Get the Job
On Friday night, Ryan Grubb sat in Dino's Pub in Renton, Washington, surrounded by Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Mcdonald, general manager John Schneider and linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti, which proved to be a dead giveaway.
Within minutes, multiple news outlets were reporting that the local NFL team was hiring Grubb as its offensive coordinator — adding to the meteoric rise of the former University of Washington play-caller.
Grubb spent less than a month at Alabama with ex-Husky coach Kalen DeBoer after the coaching change that led them out of Montlake but he never seemed long for the SEC powerhouse.
He first made an unsuccessful bid to replace DeBoer as the UW coach and lost out to Jedd Fisch.
Turning up in Tuscaloosa, Grubb was tied to rumors that he was a serious candidate to become the Seahawks offensive coordinator for the newly hired Macdonald.
Grubb spent two seasons at the UW on DeBoer's staff, turning quarterback Michael Penix Jr. into a finished product and receiving credit for the Huskies twice leading the nation in different passing categories.
Alabama, while it has DeBoer and the rest of his offensive staff in place, has to be overly frustrated with its inability to benefit from Grubb's coaching wisdom.
Intrigued by his pro-style offense, Alabama coach Nick Saban invited Grubb to the school and tried to hire him at the end of the 2022 regular season, only to be rebuffed.
And now Grubb was just a short-timer with the Crimson Tide, which will need to scramble and find someone else to oversee the offense.
Reports had UCLA coach Chip Kelly interviewing on Thursday for this Seahawks offensive coordinator role, but he left without landing the job, which proved to be just a formality.
On the rebound, Kelly resigned at UCLA and took the Ohio State OC position hours earlier on Friday, leaving Grubb, with beers and snacks on the table at a pub not far from the Seahawks facility, to likely accept if not celebrate his new job.
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