The UFL previously wanted $125,000 for each player who jumped to the active roster of an NFL team. That number was later dropped to $25,000.
For coaches, it remains at zero.
And so former Florida Tuskers coach Jay Gruden, who became coach of the Virginia Destroyers when the UFL pulled the plug on the Tuskers and moved them to Virginia and sent Detroyers coach Joe Moglia to Nebraska to replace Jeff Jagodzinski as coach of the Omaha Nighthawks, could be making the leap to the Carolina Panthers and the still-forming staff of new head coach Ron Rivera.
Jay Gruden, the younger brother of Jon Gruden, is a candidate to become the Panthers’ quarterbacks coach, according to a report that emerged this weekend from the Virginian-Pilot.
“If Jay wasn’t up for an NFL job, then the NFL’s crazy,” Destroyers’ G.M. Doug Williams told the Virginian-Pilot. “I’d be disappointed to lose him. But if he gets the chance to be an offensive coordinator or a quarterbacks coach, I’m gonna be happy for Jay, and so should everybody else.”
So if Gruden leaves, who’ll coach the Destroyers? “If he gets it, maybe I’ll have to come down and get back to coaching,” said Williams, who was the head coach at Grambling before taking a job in the Buccaneers’ front office.
As to Gruden, it’s no secret he’s looking to climb the coaching ladder. In fact, some think that Jon Gruden interviewed with the University of Miami primarily in order to try to put Jay on the Hurricanes’ radar screen.
Jay Gruden previously worked in the NFL as an offensive assistant for Jon Gruden in Tampa. Jay’s interest in jumping back to the NFL without Jon could be interpreted as evidence that no one really knows when Jon may be coming back to coaching.
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