Jeff Bower
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| Jeff Bower | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | None | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Born | May 28, 1953 | |
| Place of birth | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state).svg.png){kind=small} Roswell, GA |
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| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 119-83-1 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Championships | ||
| 4 Conference USA Championships. 1 East Division Conference Champion. |
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| Awards | ||
| 1990s Conference USA Coach of the Decade 3 Time Conference USA Coach of the Year |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1971 1972-75 |
Georgia Southern Miss. |
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| Position | Quarterback | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1990-2007 | Southern Miss. | |
Jeff Bower (b. May 28, 1953) is an American football coach, most recently at The University of Southern Mississippi. He assumed the role of head coach at Southern Miss on December 2, 1990 and held it for 17 years until November 26, 2007 when he resigned effective after the Papajohns.com Bowl which was played on December 22, 2007.[1] Under his tutelage, the Golden Eagles put together a continuing streak of fourteen straight winning seasons, the 5th longest streak in college football.[2] Bower's Southern Miss teams had also been to bowl games 10 of the last 11 seasons.[2]
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[edit] High school
Jeff Bower grew up in Roswell, Georgia where he attended Roswell High School. He led the football team to two state championships and became an eventual prep All-American, one of the school's first. He also started for two State Champion Baseball teams and one State Champion Basketball squad.[3] He was named Class AAA Player of the year and played in the State All-Star game.
[edit] College
[edit] Playing
Bower started his career at the University of Georgia before transferring to Southern Miss. He started as quarterback in 1973. His career records from 1973-75 are still in the top 5 for many of the School's passing statistics, including #3 all time in Passing percentage.
[edit] Coaching
Bower spent 29 years at the University of Southern Mississippi as a quarterback, assistant coach and head coach.
He was 119-82-1 in 17 years as the USM head football coach and had been in the same job longer than all but three coaches in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Only Penn State's Joe Paterno (42), Bobby Bowden (32) of Florida State and Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer (21) have longer tenures with their schools. Bower's only losing seasons came in 1991 and 1993.
[edit] Assistant coach
- Graduate Assistant: Southern Miss 1975-1977
- Receivers/Quarterbacks Coach: Southern Miss 1978-1981
- Quarterbacks Coach: Southern Methodist University 1982-1986
- Quarterbacks Coach: Wake Forest University 1987
- Offensive Coordinator: Southern Miss 1988
- Offensive Coordinator: Oklahoma State University 1989
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[edit] References
- ^ WDAM: Bower quits as Southern Miss coach
- ^ a b Southern Miss' Bower resigns despite 14th straight winning season
- ^ Doherty, Tim. "Master of Consistency: Mississippi's dean of coaches just keeps winning", The Clarion-Ledger, Gannett Company, August 26, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
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