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posted by on April 3, 2013 9:51 AM

Gruden’s QB Camp: Breaking down country music star Kenny Chesney

University of Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray visits Jon Gruden’s QB Camp today in Tampa.

Bray is the 12th and final player in the 2013 QB Camp class to descend upon Gruden’s Fired Football Coaches Association office this spring, but he’s not the only member of Vols Nation to visit the Super Bowl-winning coach.

Country music star Kenny Chesney, a Knoxville native and longtime UT football fan, wanted to experience QB Camp for himself, so he dropped by to see Gruden a few weeks ago while in town to kick off his No Shoes Nation Tour.

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posted by on February 14, 2013 2:21 PM

Front & Center: Jon Gruden on return of fourth Gruden’s QB Camp

Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden (L) with former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck during Gruden’s QB Camp in 2012. (Tim Casey/ESPN Images)

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For top college quarterbacks moving onto the National Football League, visiting Jon Gruden’s QB Camp has become an annual rite of spring.

The Monday Night Football analyst and Super Bowl-winning coach personally prepares detailed lesson plans for every player.

Last year, Gruden mentored Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Ryan Tannehill and others, arguably the most successful class of rookie quarterbacks in NFL history.

He helped prep each of them for the jump to the NFL.

(To the delight of fans, Gruden also introduced “Spider 2 Y Banana” into the lexicon.)

Gruden’s QB Camp series presented by Corona Extra is back for a fourth year this spring, beginning Thursday, April 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2) and continuing throughout the month with segments on SportsCenter and NFL studio shows across multiple ESPN networks.

Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden with former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck during Gruden’s QB Camp in 2012. (Tim Casey/ESPN Images)

The SportsCenter specials will offer a first-hand look at some of this year’s top prospects leading up to the 2013 NFL Draft, which ESPN will again televise April 25-27. continue reading…

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posted by on June 29, 2011 2:00 PM

On The Car Wash: Pac-12 QBs


Oregon’s Thomas, left, and USC’s Barkley, during a break in the action.

USC’s Matt Barkley and Oregon’s Darron Thomas are used to calling the shots as two of college football’s elite quarterbacks. But when they traveled to ESPN this month they had to turn over their playbooks and follow my lead through a fast-paced multimedia spin-cycle.

The Pac-10 Conference, which will officially become the Pac-12 on July 1, sent the two sophomore signal-callers to Bristol for a little Media 101. Barkley was no stranger to the ESPN experience, having visited a year earlier, but it was Thomas’s first visit to ESPN.

He quickly learned that the Car Wash pace can move nearly as fast as the high-octane Ducks spread offense. continue reading…

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