Early Life
Jon Gruden was born August 17, 1963 in Sandusky, Ohio into a family having ties to football. His father Jim would later serve as a professional football regional scout and running backs coach, his brother Jay would play and coach in the Arena Football League and become an assistant professional football coach, and Gruden would go onto marry Cindy, a University of Tennessee football cheerleader, and have a long career in football. While growing up in Sandusky, Gruden was a Cleveland Browns fan and raised in the Roman Catholic faith. When he was 15, Gruden attended Clay High School in South Bend, Indiana, during which his father Jim served as an assistant to Dan Devine at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating high school in 1981, Gruden attended Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio and later transferred to the University of Dayton, where he was a three-year letterman at quarterback under coach Mike Kelly and graduated with a degree in communications in 1985.
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