Sport(s) Football Name Jeff Tisdel | 1974–1977 Nevada Role Coach Titles Head coach | |
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Born January 10, 1956 (age 68) ( 1956-01-10 ) 1980–1985 Christian Brothers HS (CA) 1986–1988 Saint Mary's (CA) (assistant) | ||
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Jeff Tisdel (born January 10, 1956) is a college football coach, currently the head coach at Sierra College, a junior college in Rocklin, California. Noteworthy accomplishments include coaching the Nevada Wolf Pack in its first Division I-A bowl victory in the 1996 Las Vegas Bowl against Ball State and, between 2002–05, leading Sierra College to a nation-leading 37-game winning streak. Tisdel was also the first quarterback for Nevada to play in Division I-AA, moving up from Division II in 1978, and the first quarterback to play for Chris Ault, who became a member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002. After taking the 2006 season off, Tisdel returned to coaching his Sierra College team which ended the 2007 season ranked fifth in the nation by JCGridiron.com.
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Coaching career
Tisdel has experienced his greatest successes at the junior college level, especially at Sierra College, where he brought a relative no-name program to national prominence at its level of competition by collecting three conference championships and, in his first year there, brought Sierra College to second place in the Bay Valley Conference. He also had notable success in his first head coaching position at Sacramento City College, where his teams won three Northern California Athletic League championships and where some players on his old teams still remain in the record books.
Tisdel's brief foray into coaching at the NCAA I-A record is somewhat more mixed, however. After his first year coaching at Nevada, when his team won the Big West Conference Championship and notched Nevada's first victory in an NCAA I-A bowl game, his teams were consistently mediocre until, in 1999, he coached Nevada to its worst record since 1975 at 3–8. In his defense, Nevada's schedule became progressively more difficult as his tenure went on. Also, his successor, Chris Tormey, coached Nevada to an even more futile 2–10 record the next year, the worst record since Dick Trachok's 1964 1–9 campaign.