Jon Gruden Wikipedia page edited to include Indiana job amid links

There are few coaches who are included in rumors as often as Jon Gruden is. The former NFL head coach won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before spending time in the booth and returning to coach the Raiders.

The latest rumor for Gruden is that he could be on his way to Bloomington to coach the Indiana Hoosiers. Certainly, it would be a hire that caught a lot of people’s attention if it were to happen.

Perhaps excited about the possibility, Wikipedia users added the Indiana job to Jon Gruden’s Wikipedia page.

Wikipedia has already added the Indiana job to Jon Gruden's resume 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Aa9mapxe4N

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 27, 2023

Wikipedia, which is always on top of incorrect edits, changed his resume back to reflect that he is not the Indiana coach. Still, screenshots of the incident are going to live on.

Hiring Gruden would be a bold decision by Indiana. Now 60 years old, he hasn’t coached in college since 1991. Even in the NFL, he struggled to find consistency in his most recent stint as the Raiders head coach, going just 22-31 in his second stint with the team. Even outside of his Super Bowl season in Tampa Bay, Gruden struggled to put up winning seasons, going 57-55 there.

Jon Gruden’s time with the Raiders ended amid a scandal, with him resigning due to an email leak that saw him use homophobic, racist, and misogynistic language.

The Big Ten is expanding to 18 teams in 2024 and Indiana is looking to make a splashy hire ahead of that to try and position them for the future. Undeniably, Jon Gruden would be a big-name hire.

Bruce Feldman names 12 potential coaching candidates at Indiana

Jon Gruden first came up for the Indiana job when college football reporter Bruce Feldman reported that he is one of 12 names to keep an eye on for the Indiana job. However, there are another 11 names that he is pointing out to keep an eye on.

Sherrone Moore – Michigan OC
Ryan Grubb – Washington OC
Justin Frye – Ohio State OL Coach/Associate Head Coach
Tommy Rees – Alabama OC
Deland McCullough – Notre Dame RBs Coach
Jason Candle – Toledo
Jon Sumrall – Troy 
Kane Wommack – South Alabama 
Charles Huff – Marshall
Chris Creighton – Eastern Michigan 
Jake Dickert – Washington State

Indiana is a traditionally difficult Big Ten job. However, with the Big Ten and SEC garnering more and more money, the jobs within those two conferences are becoming much more intriguing to coaches, even jobs like Indiana that are seen as being harder to succeed in than others.