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RUNNING BACKS
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MIKE JINKS
JOHN SCOTT JR.
@MikeWho_TTU 2nd Season (Running Backs)
@JScott_TTU 2nd Season (Defensive Line)
Mike Jinks begins his second season at Texas Tech where he is in charge of a talented crop of running backs.
John Scott Jr. begins his second season at Texas Tech where he coaches the defensive line under defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt.
Last season, Kenny Williams and DeAndre Washington combined for 1,013 rushing yards, 533 receiving yards and 13 total touchdowns.
He joined the Red Raiders in 2013 after spending three seasons as special teams coordinator and defensive line coach at Georgia Southern.
One of the top high school coaches in the state of Texas, Mike Jinks made his first move to the collegiate ranks soon after Kliff Kingsbury was named head coach at Texas Tech.
In his first season, Scott, Jr. tutored Kerry Hyder to second team All-Big 12 honors and an invite to the NFL Combine. Hyder finished the season with 65 tackles, 11 ½ tackles for loss and two sacks.
Jinks joins the Texas Tech program after a highly successful tenure at Steele High School in Cibolo, a suburb of San Antonio. Jinks was the first head coach at Steele when the school opened its doors back in 2005 and it didn’t take long for him to mold the program into a state powerhouse.
During his time in Statesboro, Scott Jr., was part of three Georgia Southern teams that advanced to the semifinals of the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) Playoffs and mentored two All-Americans. Brent Russell, the career sack leader at Georgia Southern, was named an All-American each of his three seasons under Scott Jr.’s guidance.
While at Steele, he compiled a 76-18 overall record and an impressive 43-4 mark in his final three seasons. He led the Knights to the 2010 Class 5A Division II State Championship and to the state finals again in 2011.
In 2011, Russell anchored a defensive line, which also featured All-American Roderick Tinsley and All-SoCon selection John Douglas. Those two players combined for 158 tackles, 35 tackles for loss and 13.5 sacks.
His highly successful career (79-25 record) in Cibolo led to him to receiving the honor of coaching the West Team in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in January 2013.
In 2010 Russell, who was a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award for the nation’s top defensive player at the Championship Subdivision level, earned All-America accolades from numerous entities as well as first-team All-SoCon defensive honors.
After serving as a high school assistant coach and offensive coordinator at five different schools, Jinks earned his first head coaching job at Burbank High School in 2005.
Scott Jr. was named defensive line coach on the Eagles staff in January 2010 after four seasons coaching outside linebackers at Missouri State and three years on the football staff at Western Carolina. A 2000 graduate of Western Carolina and four-year Catamount letterman, Scott returned to coach at his alma mater in 2006. Scott was the defensive ends and outside linebackers coach for two seasons (2006-07) and defensive line coach for one (2008).
Jinks was a two-year starting quarterback at Angelo State University where he earned his degree in Kinesiology. He and his wife Meredith have two children, Jaden and Madison.
The second-team All-Southern Conference pick at defensive end in 1998, Scott Jr. registered 17 tackles for loss and in 1997, he had 59 tackles, tops among defensive linemen, in addition to 11 tackles for loss. His total of 31 tackles for a loss ranks 10th all time in Western Carolina history. After earning his bachelor’s degree in communications from Western Carolina, Scott Jr. played three years of professional football, including two years with the Greensboro (N.C.) Prowlers of the Arena Football League 2. He was selected the team’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2000. While in North Carolina in 2001, Scott Jr. gained coaching experience at the high school level as defensive line coach at Lexington, N.C.’s West Davidson High School. The Greer, S.C., native attended the NCAA’s Minority Coaches Academy in 2008 after being selected from a pool of 400 applicants. Scott Jr. completed his master’s degree in education at Louisiana-Lafayette in 2006. He and his wife, Stephanie, also a graduate of WCU, are the parents of a son, John III, and daughter, Juliette.
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