Football
- Title:
- Offensive Tackles & Tight Ends
- Email:
- jjpowers@bsu.edu
- Phone:
- 765.285.8251
Coaching Experience:
18th Year as a football coach
Wagner, graduate assistant, 1992
Columbia, graduate assistant, 1993-94
Wagner, assistant, 1995-96
Columbia, assistant, 1997-2000
Lehigh, assistant, 2001-05
Ball State, assistant, 2006-present
• 2006-07 - Offensive Line
• 2008 - Offensive Tackles and Tight Ends
• 2009 - Recruiting Coordinator/Tight Ends
NOTES: Coached the 2007 offensive line which blocked for a record setting 5,640 yards in total offense, including a school record 3,667 passing yards and school standard 30 touchdowns by Nate Davis . . . Joined the Ball State staff for the 2006 season after spending the previous five seasons as an assistant at Lehigh, coaching the offensive line . . . Tutored an offensive line in 2006 which blocked for the Ball State offense that set a then school record with 3,112 passing yards . . . Coached an offensive line in 2006 that blocked for Ball State quarterbacks who combined for a then school record 27 touchdown passes . . . Served as the recruiting coordinator at Lehigh for the 2005 season . . . Served as the recruiting coordinator and run game coordinator at Columbia.
Personal Information:
Family: Married to the former Shannon Holligan . . . three children, Rory, Riley and Patrick
High School: Haverford School (Class of 1986), in Haverford, Pa.
College: Bachelor’s - Villanova ‘90
NOTES: Was a two-year letterwinner at Villanova . . . Member of the 1989 Yankee Conference Championship Team . . . Spent the 1986-87 academic year at the U.S. Naval Academy.
