Assistant Athletic Director for Football
Former Nebraska player and assistant coach Jeff Jamrog is in his second year as the Assistant Athletic Director for Football Operations for the Husker program. Jamrog re-joined Coach Bo Pelini's Nebraska staff after four seasons as a collegiate head coach.
In his role on Pelini’s staff, Jamrog plays a key role in the administrative aspects of the football program and serves as a liaison with other parts of the athletic department. He works closely with Pelini and Athletic Director Tom Osborne on all football operations, and assists with the Huskers’ recruiting efforts.
Jamrog also coordinates the travel, budget and staffing for the football office, assists with football scheduling, oversees the compliance, strength training, equipment and academic support units regarding football issues and will also supervises football support staffs. He is also the driving force behind the organization of Nebraska's football coaches’ clinics and youth camps.
Jamrog returned to Nebraska after spending four seasons as the head coach at Minnesota State-Mankato. The 44-year-old Jamrog guided his Maverick teams to a 17-27 overall record, including a 6-5 mark in 2004—the program’s first winning season since 1994. The team boasted a six-game improvement in victories, which was not only a school record but tied for the fifth-largest single-season jump in NCAA Division II history.
His four-year run at Minnesota State came after a brief stint as the defensive coordinator at Western Illinois University in the spring of 2004. Prior to that appointment, Jamrog had spent the previous four seasons as the defensive line coach on Frank Solich’s staff at Nebraska.
Jamrog tutored the Huskers’ interior defensive linemen in each of his four years on the defensive staff. In his final season, Jamrog also coached the defensive ends and was named special teams coordinator for the 2003 Huskers. During his time with the Huskers, Jamrog helped Nebraska played for the national championship in the Rose Bowl following the 2001 season, along with two trips to the Alamo Bowl (2000, 2003) and an appearance in the Independence Bowl (2002).
The 2003 Nebraska defense led the country in takeaways, while ranking second nationally in scoring defense. Jamrog’s special teams units were also among the nation’s best totaling 21 blocked kicks and 11 punt returns for touchdowns in four years. With Jamrog as special teams coordinator In 2003, Nebraska led the Big 12 and ranked ninth nationally in net punting.
Before his first tenure on the Nebraska coaching staff, Jamrog spent three years as defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at New Mexico State. He helped Head Coach Tony Samuel turn around a program that had just two winning seasons in the previous 31 years.
Jamrog served as the defensive coordinator at Nebraska-Omaha from 1994 to 1996, and helped the Mavs to the 1996 North Central Conference title--the first outright title in school history. Jamrog was the inside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at the University of South Dakota from 1990 to 1993. He began his coaching career at Nebraska in 1988 and 1989 as a graduate assistant.
Originally a walk-on for the Huskers, Jamrog played for the freshman team in 1983, redshirted in 1984, then lettered for three years as a defensive end. As a senior, Jamrog started and had 66 tackles, eight sacks and 13 tackles for loss. Jamrog was a CoSIDA first-team Academic All-American in 1987 and was an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient. He was also the winner of the 1987 Guy Chamberlin Trophy.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Nebraska in 1987 and his master’s in business administration in 1990. Jamrog and his wife, Connie, have three children -- Elizabeth, Brett and Jared. Jamrog and Connie are both members of the Bo Pelini Foundation Board of Directors.