Mike Jacobs enters his fifth season on the Vulcans’ coaching staff working with the defensive linemen after spending three years at NCAA Division I Purdue.
In 2010, Cal U led the PSAC in both rushing defense and sacks. The Vulcans only allowed 78.4 rushing yards per game after registering a combined 40 sacks from over a dozen players. In his first two years with the Cal U program, Jacobs tutored defensive end Willie Walker, who was a two-time Gene Upshaw Award Finalist and PSAC West Defensive Player of the Year in 2009.
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 by winning the Motor City Bowl.
He started his coaching career in 2002 as a graduate assistant and coached the offensive linemen and long snappers at Eastern Michigan.
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 on the offensive line 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.
