Biography

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Jon Gruden attended Clay High School in South Bend, Indiana, where his father Jim Gruden served as an assistant to Dan Devine at the University of Notre Dame. Feeling he would not have a chance to play for the Fighting Irish, Jon Gruden chose not to attend Notre Dame – where he would have received free tuition as a coach's child – but Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. After just one year he transferred to the University of Dayton, where he was a back-up quarterback under coach Mike Kelly from 1982-84.

After graduating with a degree in communications, Gruden started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee during the 1986 season. He found his way as the quarterbacks coach at Southeast Missouri State for two years. He then made a smooth transition to University of Pacific in 1989 as offensive assistant. He became the wide-receivers coach for the University of Pittsburgh in 1991.

Gruden grew up in a football household as a Buccaneers fan, as his father Jim was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' running backs coach in 1982-83, and later served as director of player personnel from 1984 to 1986. Though he still lived in Tampa, Jim Gruden later served as a talent scout for the San Francisco 49ers.

Jon Gruden and his wife, Cindy, have three sons, Jon II (Deuce), Michael, and Jayson, and reside in Tampa Florida.

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