Mike Jinks

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Mike Jinks
Biographical details
Born (1972-02-07) February 7, 1972 (age 52)
Playing career
1990–1993 Angelo State
Position(s) Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996–1997 Ellison HS (TX) (QB)
1998 Judson HS (TX) (QB)
1999 David Crockett HS (TX) (OC)
2000–2001 Galena Park HS (TX) (OC)
2002–2004 Robert E. Lee HS (TX) (OC)
2005 Luther Burbank HS (TX)
2006–2012Steele HS (TX)
2013–2014 Texas Tech (RB)
2015Texas Tech (AHC/RB)
2016–2018 Bowling Green
2019–2021 USC (RB)
2022–2023 Houston (RB)
Head coaching record
Overall79–25 (high school)
7–24 (college)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Texas Class 5A Division II (2010)
Awards
National High School Coach of the Year Finalist (2012)
U.S. Army All-American Bowl Coach (2012)

Michael Troy Jinks (born February 7, 1972) [1] is an American football coach who last served as the running backs coach for Houston. Jinks served as the head football coach at Bowling Green State University from 2016 until midway through the 2018 season, before becoming the running backs coach at the University of Southern California. Previously he was an assistant head coach and running backs coach at Texas Tech University. [2]

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Early life

Jinks was born on February 7, 1972. [1] He played quarterback for three years at Judson High School in Converse, Texas before graduating in 1990. [3] After high school, Jinks played college football at the NCAA Division II level for Angelo State. He was their starting quarterback for two years, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Mathematics. [4]

Coaching career

High school

Jinks' coaching career began in 1995 when he was working as a waiter in a restaurant in San Angelo, Texas. He was serving a table full of coaches from Ellison High School and was offered a job as the quarterbacks coach there. Short on funds, Jinks received a loan from his former coach at Angelo State, Jerry Vandergriff, to earn his teacher certification and move to Killeen, Texas. [4]

Jinks became the quarterbacks coach at his former alma mater Judson High School in 1998. Following that, he was the offensive coordinator at David Crockett High School, Galena Park High School, and Robert E. Lee High School. He accepted his first head coaching position at Burbank High School in San Antonio, Texas in 2005.

In 2005, Jinks became the head coach for Steele High School in Cibolo, Texas eight months before the school was initially opened. Jinks lead the new football program at Steele to a win in the 2010 Class 5A Division II Texas state championship featuring all-state and future NFL running back Malcolm Brown. In 2011, Jinks' team made it to the finals of the Class 5A Division II state championship before losing to a Spring Dekaney HS squad coached by Danny Amendola's father, Willie Amendola. In 2012, another powerhouse Steele team made it to the state semifinals, only to fall to eventual state champion Katy High School. Following the conclusion of the 2012 season, Jinks was named the head coach for the West-team of the 2012 U.S. Army All-American Bowl [5] and was a finalist for the 2013 Xenith National High School Coach of the Year Award. [2] [6] Jinks left Steele with a win–loss record of 77–17. In his last three seasons there, Jinks compiled a record of 43–4. [2]

While at Steele, Jinks coached High School All-American and future Texas Longhorns running back Malcolm Brown. [7]

College

On January 9, 2013, it was announced that Jinks accepted the position of running backs coach for Texas Tech under head coach Kliff Kingsbury. [2] In January 2015, Jinks was promoted to associate head coach in addition to his running back coaching duties with the announcement of the hiring of new defensive coordinator David Gibbs. In 2014, running back Deandre Washington became Texas Tech's first 1,000 yard rusher since 1998 and earned All-Big 12 Second Team honors. [8] Washington led the Big 12 Conference in rushing yards and earned an All-Big 12 Conference 1st Team selection in 2015.

Jinks was named head coach at Bowling Green on December 8, 2015. [9]

On October 14, 2018, Jinks was fired after two and a half seasons at Bowling Green. [10]

Head coaching record

College

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Bowling Green Falcons (Mid-American Conference)(2016–2018)
2016 Bowling Green 4–83–5T–3rd (East)
2017 Bowling Green 2–102–65th (East)
2018 Bowling Green 1–6 [n 1] 0–3 [n 1] (East)
Bowling Green:7–245–14
Total:7–24

Notes

  1. 1 2 Jinks served as Bowling Green's head coach for the first seven games of the 2018 season before he was fired. Carl Pelini was appointed interim head coach and led the team for the final five games of the season. Bowling Green finished the year with an overall record of 3–9 and a mark of 2–6 in conference play, tying for fourth place in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference.

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Hurtik, Blake (January 9, 2013). "Steele's Jinks to coach Tech running backs". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Flores, David (January 12, 2012). "Still a Knight: Jinks withdraws from search for Judson coach". San Antonio Express-News. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  4. 1 2 Lee, Mike. "Former ASU QB Jinks making his mark as high school coach". Angelo State University. Archived from the original on January 13, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Doelle, Chris (April 18, 2012). "2012 THSCA All-Star Football Classic Rosters Announced". Lone Star Gridiron.
  6. ↑ Wixon, Matt (December 5, 2012). "DeSoto's Claude Mathis a finalist for National Coach of the Year". The Dallas Morning News . Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ Flores, David. "Malcolm Brown eager to get UT back on track". KVUE. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
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  9. ↑ http://redraiders.com/filed-online/2015-12-08/bowling-green-hires-texas-tech-assistant-mike-jinks-be-head-coach#.VmeLF_mDGkp [ dead link ]
  10. ↑ Sallee, Barrett (October 14, 2018). "Bowling Green fires coach Mike Jinks after 1-6 start to the season, Carl Pelini takes over as interim". cbssports.com. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
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