Jeff Tisdel

Jeff Tisdel
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Sierra JC
Biographical details
Born (1956-01-10) January 10, 1956
Playing career
19741977 Nevada
Position(s) Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
19801985 Christian Brothers HS (CA)
19861988 Saint Mary's (CA) (assistant)
19891993 Sacramento CC
19941995 Nevada (assistant)
19961999 Nevada
20002005 Sierra JC
2007present Sierra JC
Head coaching record
Overall 2322 (college)
117411 (junior college)

Statistics

Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 Northern California Athletic League (1989, 19911992)
2 Big West Conference (19961997)
2 Bay Valley Conference (2002, 2003)
1 Mid-Empire Conference (2004)
1 Valley Conference (2007)
1 Valley Conference (2008)

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.

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 38. 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 210 record the next year, the worst record since Dick Trachok's 1964 19 campaign.

Head coaching record

College

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Nevada Wolf Pack (Big West Conference) (1996–1999)
1996 Nevada 93 41 T1st W Las Vegas
1997 Nevada 56 41 T1st
1998 Nevada 65 32 T2nd
1999 Nevada 38 24 6th
Nevada: 2322 138
Total: 2322
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title

Junior college

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Sacramento City College Panthers () (1989–1993)
Sacramento City College: 38121
Sierra Wolverines () (2000–2005)
2000 Sierra 55 32 2nd
2001 Sierra 65 41 2nd L Shrine Bowl
2002 Sierra 101 50 1st W Shrine Bowl
2003 Sierra 110 50 1st W Shrine Bowl
2004 Sierra 110 50 1st W Shrine Bowl
2005 Sierra 92 32 2nd W Holiday Bowl (JC)
Sierra Wolverines () (2007–present)
2007 Sierra 92 50 1st L Hawaiian Punch Bowl (JC)
2008 Sierra 101 41 1st W Premier West Bank Bowl (JC)
2009 Sierra 56 32 1st
2010 Sierra 37 05
Sierra: 7929
Total: 117411
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title

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