 Kill at the 2013 Minnesota Spring Game | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Consultant |
| Team | Vanderbilt |
| Conference | SEC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | August 24, 1961 Cheney, Kansas, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1979–1982 | Southwestern (KS) |
| Position(s) | Linebacker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1985–1987 | Pittsburg State (DC) |
| 1988–1990 | Webb City HS (MO) |
| 1991–1993 | Pittsburg State (OC) |
| 1994–1998 | Saginaw Valley State |
| 1999–2000 | Emporia State |
| 2001–2007 | Southern Illinois |
| 2008–2010 | Northern Illinois |
| 2011–2015 | Minnesota |
| 2017 | Rutgers (OC/QB) |
| 2019 | Virginia Tech (asst. to HC) |
| 2020–2021 | TCU (asst. to HC) |
| 2021 | TCU (interim HC) |
| 2022–2023 | New Mexico State |
| 2024–present | Vanderbilt (consultant) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2016 | Kansas State (assoc. AD) |
| 2018–2019 | Southern Illinois (interim AD) |
| 2019 | Southern Illinois |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 175–115 (college) |
| Bowls | 1–6 |
| Tournaments | 4–5 (NCAA D-I-AA/FCS playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 Gateway Football (2003–2005) 1 MAC West Division (2010) | |
| Awards | |
| Eddie Robinson Award (2004)[1] Big Ten Coach of the Year (2014)[2] Kansas Sports Hall of Fame (2016)[3] C-USA Coach of the Year (2023) | |
Jerry R. Kill (born August 24, 1961) is an American football coach. He was most recently the head coach at New Mexico State University. He played college football at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, from 1979 to 1982. Kill served as the head coach at Saginaw Valley State University, Emporia State University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Northern Illinois University and the University of Minnesota, as well as serving as the interim head coach for the final four games of the 2021 season at TCU.
Kill has also served as an athletic department administrator, most recently at Southern Illinois University as an assistant to the Chancellor and athletic director. He was also briefly at Kansas State as associate athletic director.[4]
During the course of his career he was credited with bringing several programs to new heights, and these successes led to increasingly more prestigious coaching positions. Despite retiring from the game in 2015 for health reasons, Kill returned to coaching in 2020 after accepting a special assistant's job at TCU and was named the interim head coach on October 31, 2021, after the resignation of Gary Patterson.
- ^ Jerry Kill captures 2004 Eddie Robinson Award – Nhl Betting Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Betting Express (December 16, 2004). Retrieved July 26, 2012.
- ^ Christensen, Joe (December 2, 2014). "Kill named Big Ten Coach of Year". StarTribune.com. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ^ "The Late Steve Anson To Be Inducted Into The Kansas Sports Hall Of Fame". WIBW News Now. June 8, 2016. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
- ^ "Kansas Native Jerry Kill Named Associate AD at K-State | KSU Wildcats News". Kstatesports.com. May 17, 2016. Archived from the original on May 21, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.