Jeff Woodruff
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Ravenna, Ohio |
| Alma mater | Kent State University, 1979 |
| Playing career | |
| 1978 | Kent State (QB-P) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1979 | Kent State (GA) |
| 1980–82 | Washington (GA) |
| 1983 | Nevada-Reno (DB) |
| 1984–91 | Washington (QB) |
| 1992–93 | Washington (OC) |
| 1996–97 | Cholla HS |
| 1998–99 | Arizona (RB) |
| 2000–03 | Eastern Michigan |
| 2004–06 | Texas-El Paso (TE) |
| 2007–11 | Texas-El Paso (Asst. HC/TE) |
| 2012–13 | Oaks Christian HS |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 9–34 (.209) |
|
Statistics | |
Jeff Woodruff is an American football coach, formerly the head coach at Eastern Michigan University from 2000 to 2003. He was the assistant head coach and tight ends coach at the University of Texas at El-Paso, and the head coach of Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, California.
Coaching career
He began his coaching career as a tight ends coach and graduate assistant on the Kent State football staff in 1979, where he played as a quarterback and punter. Woodruff joined the University of Washington football staff in Seattle as a graduate assistant coach from 1980-82 before moving to the University of Nevada-Reno for a season as the secondary coach and recruiting coordinator in 1983. He returned to the University of Washington staff in 1984 as quarterbacks coach under head coach Don James, moving up to the offensive coordinator position in 1992 and in 1993 under Jim Lambright.
After leaving the Washington program in January 1994, Woodruff became the head football coach at Cholla High School in Tucson, Arizona, before joining the University of Arizona staff as an assistant in 1998 under head coach Dick Tomey.[1]
Woodruff was the head college football coach for the Eastern Michigan Eagles located in Ypsilanti. He held that position for four seasons, from 2000 until 2003,[2] with 9 wins and 34 losses (.209).
Woodruff's first season, in which the team posted a 3-8 record turned out to be the best of his tenure (.273). Following a 38-10 loss to Central Michigan on November 1, 2003, Director of Athletics Dave Diles fired Woodruff, saying, "Jeff Woodruff has helped develop our program with quality young men, but the team is not on the competitive level that we felt should be after four years."[3]
After Eastern Michigan, Woodruff was hired by UTEP to become the tight ends coach for the Miners under head coach Mike Price, and was elevated to assistant head coach in 2007.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Rank# | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Michigan (Mid-American Conference) (2000–2003) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Eastern Michigan | 3–8 | 2–5 | 5th (West) | |||||
| 2001 | Eastern Michigan | 2–9 | 1–6 | 6th (West) | |||||
| 2002 | Eastern Michigan | 3–9 | 1–7 | 7th (West) | |||||
| 2003 | Eastern Michigan | 1–8 | 2–6 | 6th (West) | |||||
| Eastern Michigan: | 9–34 | 6–24 | |||||||
| Total: | 9–34 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
| #Rankings from final Coaches Poll. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ 2002 EMU Football Game Program
- ↑ Shafer, Ian. "Eastern Michigan University (All seasons results)". College Football Reference. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ↑ "Eastern Michigan fires football coach Jeff Woodruff". The Daily Sentinel. 2003-11-04. p. B6. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
External link
- University of Texas-El Paso Athletics - Jeff Woodruff