Jack Welch (American football)

Jack Welch
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Retired
Team None
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–2017 Kansas Wesleyan, Fort Scott Community College, Copperas Cove High School
Head coaching record
Overall 237–124–1

Jack Welch is an American football coach.

Coaching career

Kansas Wesleyan

Welch was the 17th head football coach at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas and he held that position for two seasons, from 1985 until 1986. His coaching record at Kansas Wesleyan was 8–12.[1]

The results Welch produced at Kansas Wesleyan were considered a "turnaround" because the year before his arrival, the team had winless season.[2] At the time, the program had the nations's longest losing streak in NAIA football.[3]

Other coaching positions

Welch's coaching career also includes stops at West Texas State University, Fort Scott Community College, and Louisiana Tech University.[4]

Welch has recently retired[5] from his positions as both the athletic director and head football coach for Copperas Cove High School in Copperas Cove, Texas. Welch has 193 wins, 1 tie, and 84 losses since his 1994 debut at Copperas Cove. Welch's accomplishments also include 18 years in the playoffs, and two appearances in the Texas 4A State Championship. Welch has the most wins of any head coach in Copperas Cove history with victories over many of Texas' most notorious 4A and 5A power houses to including Odessa Permian and National Champion Southlake Carroll. Welch was Class 6A "Coach of the Year" in 1998 and has been the District "Coach of the Year" eight times. He has had over 300 players sign college scholarships and thirteen NFL players in Copperas Cove, including Heisman Trophy Robert Griffin III and NFL "All-Pro" and "NFL Man of the Year" Charles "Peanut" Tillman.

Education

Welch earned a bachelor's degree from Taylor University in Indiana and master's from West Texas State University,[6] and Doctorate from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Head coaching record

College

Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1985–1986)
1985 Kansas Wesleyan 2–82–7
1986 Kansas Wesleyan 6–46–3
Kansas Wesleyan: 8–128–10
Fort Scott Greyhounds (Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference) (1987–1992)
1987 Fort Scott 3–6
1988 Fort Scott 5–4
1989 Fort Scott 7–4
1990 Fort Scott 6–5R.C. Cola Bowl
1991 Fort Scott 7–4Midwest Bowl
1992 Fort Scott 8–3ChampionsValley of the Sun Bowl
Fort Scott: 36–26
Total:44–38

References

  1. ↑ College Football Data Warehouse Archived October 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes coaching records
  2. ↑ The Fort Scott Tribune "Hounds hope hard work turns in to playoff berth" by Dave Wagner, September 2, 1987
  3. ↑ The Fort Scott Tribune "FSCC Hires New Coach for Football" by John Lechliter, February 19, 1987
  4. ↑ KWTX.com "Jack of All Trades: Copperas Cove Head Coach Jack Welch" by Adam Winkler, March 11, 2008
  5. ↑ coveleaderpress.com CCISD board approves Welch resignation
  6. ↑ Javelina Bulletin "5 candidates to interview for head football coach" December 15, 1999
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