Football
- Title:
- Defensive Ends Coach
- Email:
- jwhood@bsu.edu
- Phone:
- 765.285.1197
Second Season at Ball State (2010)
25th Year as a Football Coach
Alma Mater: Ohio Wesleyan '86
Coaching Experience:
Bowling Green, graduate assistant, 1986-87
Mesa State, assistant, 1988-89
Fort Hays State, assistant, 1990-93
Mesa State, head coach, 1994-97
Millikin, assistant, 1998-2003
Fort Hays State, assistant, 2004
Miami University, assistant, 2005-08
Ball State, assistant, 2009
Ball State, defensive coordinator, 2010
NOTES: Spent the 2009 season as the defensive ends coach at Ball State and was promoted to defensive coordinator prior to the 2010 season . . . Spent the 2008 season as the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at Miami University . . . Helped the RedHawks’ defense lead the Mid-American Conference in six different categories in 2007 . . . Helped Miami University to the 2005 MAC East Division Co-Championship and the 2007 MAC East Division title . . . Served as the head coach at Mesa State, an NCAA Division II program in Colorado, from 1994-97.
Personal Information:
Date of Birth: Sept. 5, 1963, in Defiance, Ohio
Marital Status: Married to the former Renee Schmidt
High School: Ada H.S. (Class of ‘82) in Ada, Ohio
College: Bachelor’s -- Ohio Wesleyan ‘86; Master’s -- Bowling Green ‘87
NOTES: A three-time team captain at Ohio Wesleyan, Hood was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2004 . . . father, Wally Hood, was a head coach at Ohio Northern, Otterbein and Fairmont State.
