Bio

Coach Jamrog recently completed his ninth season as the head coach at Midland University. A proven veteran in the college football ranks, Jamrog has led the Warriors to nine consecutive winning seasons, compiling a 58-37 record. Midland is the only college football program in Nebraska to achieve nine straight winning seasons, and its 58 victories are the most among all colleges and universities in the state.

Jamrog brings more than three decades of collegiate coaching experience. He served as head coach at Minnesota State Mankato from 2004 to 2007 and has held multiple assistant coaching positions across the country. His coaching career began in 1988 as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, the University of Nebraska. He has been on the Huskers’ staff three times, most recently as director of football operations from 2008 to 2014.

At Nebraska, Jamrog played a key role in reviving the school’s renowned walk-on program. A former walk-on himself who earned a scholarship, he successfully recruited homegrown talent that contributed to the Huskers’ success.

Jamrog has a track record of turning football programs around. In his first season at Minnesota State Mankato in 2004, he led the team to its first winning record since 1994. The six-game improvement in victories set a school record and tied for the fifth-largest single-season turnaround in NCAA Division II history.

As defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at New Mexico State, he helped head coach Tony Samuel revitalize a program that had posted only two winning seasons in the previous 31 years. From 1994 to 1996, Jamrog served as defensive coordinator at the University of Nebraska Omaha, helping the Mavericks secure their first outright North Central Conference title. The 1995 team climbed to a No. 4 national ranking and improved by seven wins, marking the second-largest turnaround in Division II history.

For more than 30 years, Jamrog has recruited high school athletes throughout Nebraska. One of his primary goals at Midland is to aggressively pursue top student-athletes of high character within a 500-mile radius of the Fremont campus.

Jamrog has a long history of excellence, from his playing days at Nebraska—where he won the Guy Chamberlin Trophy in 1987—to being a finalist for FootballScoop.com’s Director of Football Operations of the Year in 2012. He earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in business administration from Nebraska, where he was a 1987 CoSIDA Academic All-American and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient.

As a player, Jamrog learned under two Hall of Fame coaches. At Elkhorn Mount Michael, he played for Nebraska Hall of Fame coach Jim Kane, helping the Knights win state titles in football (1982) and basketball (1983). He was an all-state athlete in both sports and the 1982 Class B football player of the year.

At Nebraska, he played under College Football Hall of Fame coach Tom Osborne. He later served as a graduate assistant for the Huskers in 1988 and 1989 before becoming an assistant athletic director for football operations under Osborne’s tenure as athletic director.

Jamrog’s coaching career also includes stops at South Dakota (inside linebackers/special teams coach, 1990), Nebraska Omaha (defensive coordinator, 1994-96), and New Mexico State (defensive coordinator, 1997-99).

He returned to Nebraska in 2000, coaching the defensive line and special teams before taking over as defensive line/defensive ends coach and special teams coordinator in 2003. That season, Nebraska led the nation in takeaways and ranked second in scoring defense. His special teams units were among the nation’s best, recording 21 blocked kicks and 11 punt return touchdowns over four seasons. In the 2014 Holiday Bowl, his punt return unit blocked two punts against USC.

During his time at Nebraska, Jamrog helped the Huskers reach the 2002 Rose Bowl for the national championship, along with appearances in the Alamo Bowl (2000, 2003) and Independence Bowl (2002).

He served as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Western Illinois in 2004 before taking the head coaching job at Minnesota State Mankato. He returned to Nebraska in 2008.

Jamrog and his wife, Connie, have three children—Elizabeth, Brett, and Jared—and four grandchildren.