While Bill Belichick hasn\u2019t exactly made the case that head coaches transitioning from the NFL to college have an easy time of it, Jon Gruden could be the next test subject in that experiment.<\/p>\n
Gruden, who has been out of coaching since 2021, when he resigned from the Las Vegas Raiders, due to a scandal over racist, misogynistic, and homophobic emails leaked amid\u00a0the NFL\u2019s investigation into\u00a0Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders, has been laying the groundwork for a return<\/a> to the sidelines in recent months.<\/p>\n While still involved in legal proceedings with the NFL<\/a>, Gruden has made it clear that he\u2019s open to a return to college football, although his last experience at that level was in 1991.<\/p>\n On Friday\u2019s episode of Pardon My Take<\/a>, the Super Bowl winner didn\u2019t discuss specific openings or possibilities but admitted he has been preparing himself for a return<\/a> to the sidelines.<\/p>\n \u201cI absolutely love football,\u201d Gruden, who has been working for Barstool Sports since 2024<\/a>, said. \u201cI love it, and it\u2019s pretty much all I have. I have an office, for the people who don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve got a server in there. I just put a lot of money into a server that collects all the film and allows me to study them. Who knows what will happen, but I\u2019m preparing myself as always to coach. But, behind the scenes, we\u2019re getting plenty of football. I promise you.\u201d<\/p>\n The opening at Arkansas has generated the most buzz for Gruden, with Brett Favre throwing his support behind the school<\/a> hiring him.<\/p>\n The SEC would suit Gruden just fine. \u201cI\u2019d die to coach in the SEC<\/a>,\u201d he told Georgia players in August.<\/p>\n While some media members see Gruden as a fit for the modern college football landscape<\/a>, others are skeptical of his ability to succeed<\/a> in that space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Bill Belichick hasn\u2019t exactly made the case that head coaches transitioning from the NFL to college have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,3925,7644],"class_list":{"0":"post-456441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jon-gruden","10":"tag-pardon-my-take"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115395617767595366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}