Tennessee fans have long fantasized about Super Bowl-winning coach Jon Gruden one day roaming the sidelines at Neyland Stadium.

After all, he is a former Vols graduate assistant and reportedly has some family ties to the state of Tennessee.

But, in case you haven’t heard, Butch Jones is still the coach at Tennessee and Gruden appears as happy as ever in his role as color commentator on ESPN’s Monday Night Football.

That doesn’t mean Gruden isn’t interesting in the Vols football program, though.

Just last month, Gruden was spotted on the sidelines wearing a Vols coaching polo watching Tennessee dismantle Northwestern in the Outback Bowl.

It was revealed by Jones that Gruden had addressed his team in the days leading up to the bowl game.

So when Vols offensive coordinator Mike DeBord Tweeted out a picture of some of the Vols staff hanging out with Gruden at what appears to be the FFCA headquarters, it was just another piece of evidence to show that the former coach and the Tennessee staff have grown close:

In case you’re wondering, “FFCA” stands for Fired Football Coaches Association, which is a group that Gruden founded in 2008 after he was fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

According to the organization’s website, Gruden started the group based on this premise:

“I had just been fired, and learned that there were many others just like me that needed a place to study football. The office is full of game film, grease boards and notepads. We’ve hosted NFL coaches, major college coaches, small college coaches, high school coaches and Pop Warner coaches. We’ve even hosted people who aren’t coaches at all, but love football. It’s amazing how many of us are out there.”

The FFCA’s self-described purpose:

The FFCA is a football think-tank, which welcomes current and former coaches and players to study various phases of the game. The FFCA has become a highly regarded forum for many of the game’s greatest innovators and talent, who strive to improve their knowledge base in order to reach championship levels of performance.