Mike Jacobs enters his third season on the Vulcans’ coaching staff working with the defensive linemen after spending three years with Division I Purdue.
In his first two years with the Cal U program, he tutored four different All-PSAC West selections, including defensive end Willie Walker, who was a two-time Gene Upshaw Award Finalist and PSAC West Defensive Player of the Year.
While with the Boilermakers, Jacobs served as an offensive graduate assistant on former-head coach Joe Tiller's staff. In 2007, he worked with the offensive linemen and long snappers as Purdue finished the season 7-5 overall and won the Motor City Bowl.
He started his coaching career in 2002 as an offensive graduate assistant and coached the offensive linemen and long snappers at Eastern Michigan, a member of the Mid-American Conference.
In between his stops at EMU and Purdue, Jacobs spent the 2004 season as the offensive line coach at Wilmington (Ohio), a Division III program.
Jacobs also features Division I playing experience, playing four years at Big Ten powerhouse Ohio State University. He was a two-year letterman as a center for the Buckeyes and was a member of four bowl teams, playing for both John Cooper and Jim Tressel. Following the senior season in 2001, he earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
He graduated from Ohio State in 2001 with a bachelor of science in education before completing his master’s degrees in health and kinesiology at Purdue in 2008.
