Mike Jacobs enters his first season on the Vulcans’ coaching staff in 2008 after spending the last three years with Division I Purdue University. Jacobs will be working the defensive linemen this year at California University of Pennsylvania.
While with the Boilermakers, Jacobs served on head coach Joe Tiller’s staff as an offensive graduate assistant. Last year, he worked with the offensive linemen and long snappers as Purdue finished the season 7-5 overall and won the Motor City Bowl.
Jacobs started his coaching career in 2002 as an offensive graduate assistant with Eastern Michigan University, a member of the Mid-American Conference. While with the Eagles, he coached the offensive linemen and long snappers.
In between his stops at EMU and Purdue, Jacobs spent the 2004 season as the offensive line coach at Wilmington College (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.
His father, Mike, also served as assistant coach for the Buckeyes from 1995-99 and coached in four bowl games, including the 1997 Rose Bowl.
Jacobs 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.
