Football
Jinks, Mike
Mike Jinks
- Title:
- Running Backs
- Email:
- football@usc.edu
- Phone:
- (213) 740-4204
Mike Jinks joined the USC staff in December of 2018 as running backs coach.
In 2019, USC’s running backs combined rushed for nearly 1,600 yards with 16 TDs (plus another 5 receiving scores).
Jinks, 49, was Bowling Green’s head coach from 2016 until being relieved of his duties after the seventh game of the 2018 season. His Falcons went 7-24. In his first 2 seasons, he produced 13 players who were named to various All-Mid-American Conference teams and 23 who made various Academic All-MAC teams (including an Academic All-American first teamer).
Before that, he was the running backs coach at Texas Tech for 3 years (2013-15), adding the associate head coach title in 2015.
Texas Tech was eighth nationally in total offense (510.7) in 2013 while averaging 35.8 points per game and played in the Holiday Bowl.
In 2014, running back DeAndre Washington became the first Red Raider to rush for 1,000 yards since 1998 (1,103). Texas Tech was 10th nationally in total offense (504.1), including rushing for 153.0 yards per game, while scoring 30.5 points.
In 2015, Texas Tech was second in the country in total offense (579.5) and scoring offense (a school-record 45.1) while running for 191.3 yards per outing with 34 rushing TDs. The Red Raiders were one of just two schools to score at least 25 points in every game that year. Washington ran for 1,000 yards again (1,492), earning All-Big 12 first team honors and becoming the first Red Raider with consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons since 1995 and 1996. Texas Tech played in the Texas Bowl.
Prior to Texas Tech, Jinks was the head coach at Steele High in Cibolo (Tex.) for 7 years (2006-12). He went 76-18 at Cibolo, including being a National Coach of the Year finalist while winning the 2010 Class 5A Division II State Championship. Steele was 43-4 in his final 3 seasons. The Knights advanced to the state finals again in 2011 and to the semifinals in 2012. He coached the West Team in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in January 2013.
He was the head coach at Burbank High in San Antonio (Tex.) in 2005.
Before that, Jinks was an assistant coach at 5 different high schools. He began his coaching career as the quarterbacks coach at Ellison High in Killeen (Tex.) in 1996 and 1997. In 1998, he became the quarterbacks coach at his alma mater, Judson High, in Converse (Tex.). Following that, he served as offensive coordinator at Crockett High in Austin (Tex.) in 1999, Galena Park (Tex.) High for 2 seasons (2000-01) and Robert E. Lee High in San Antonio (Tex.) for 3 years (2002-04).
Jinks played quarterback at Judson High and then at Angelo State (1990-93), where he started for 2 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Angelo State in 1994.
He was born on Feb. 7, 1972. He and his wife Meredith have 3 children, Jaden, 14, Madison, 10, and Tristan, 6.
* First 7 games
NFL STARS: DeAndre Washington
In 2019, USC’s running backs combined rushed for nearly 1,600 yards with 16 TDs (plus another 5 receiving scores).
Jinks, 49, was Bowling Green’s head coach from 2016 until being relieved of his duties after the seventh game of the 2018 season. His Falcons went 7-24. In his first 2 seasons, he produced 13 players who were named to various All-Mid-American Conference teams and 23 who made various Academic All-MAC teams (including an Academic All-American first teamer).
Before that, he was the running backs coach at Texas Tech for 3 years (2013-15), adding the associate head coach title in 2015.
Texas Tech was eighth nationally in total offense (510.7) in 2013 while averaging 35.8 points per game and played in the Holiday Bowl.
In 2014, running back DeAndre Washington became the first Red Raider to rush for 1,000 yards since 1998 (1,103). Texas Tech was 10th nationally in total offense (504.1), including rushing for 153.0 yards per game, while scoring 30.5 points.
In 2015, Texas Tech was second in the country in total offense (579.5) and scoring offense (a school-record 45.1) while running for 191.3 yards per outing with 34 rushing TDs. The Red Raiders were one of just two schools to score at least 25 points in every game that year. Washington ran for 1,000 yards again (1,492), earning All-Big 12 first team honors and becoming the first Red Raider with consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons since 1995 and 1996. Texas Tech played in the Texas Bowl.
Prior to Texas Tech, Jinks was the head coach at Steele High in Cibolo (Tex.) for 7 years (2006-12). He went 76-18 at Cibolo, including being a National Coach of the Year finalist while winning the 2010 Class 5A Division II State Championship. Steele was 43-4 in his final 3 seasons. The Knights advanced to the state finals again in 2011 and to the semifinals in 2012. He coached the West Team in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in January 2013.
He was the head coach at Burbank High in San Antonio (Tex.) in 2005.
Before that, Jinks was an assistant coach at 5 different high schools. He began his coaching career as the quarterbacks coach at Ellison High in Killeen (Tex.) in 1996 and 1997. In 1998, he became the quarterbacks coach at his alma mater, Judson High, in Converse (Tex.). Following that, he served as offensive coordinator at Crockett High in Austin (Tex.) in 1999, Galena Park (Tex.) High for 2 seasons (2000-01) and Robert E. Lee High in San Antonio (Tex.) for 3 years (2002-04).
Jinks played quarterback at Judson High and then at Angelo State (1990-93), where he started for 2 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Angelo State in 1994.
He was born on Feb. 7, 1972. He and his wife Meredith have 3 children, Jaden, 14, Madison, 10, and Tristan, 6.
JINKS SNAPSHOT
BIRTHDAY: Feb. 7, 1972
FAMILY: Wife, Meredith; Sons, Jaden, 14, and Tristan, 6; Daughter, Madison, 10
HIGH SCHOOL: Judson HS, Converse, Tex.
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, kinesiology, Angelo State, 1995
PLAYING EXPERIENCE: Judson HS, Converse, Tex.
Angelo State, quarterback, 1990-93
COACHING EXPERIENCE: 25 years
| YEAR | TEAM | POSITION | BOWL |
| 1996 | Ellison HS | Quarterbacks | -- |
| 1997 | Ellison HS | Quarterbacks | -- |
| 1998 | Judson HS | Quarterbacks | -- |
| 1999 | Crockett HS | Offensive Coordinator | -- |
| 2000 | Galena Park HS | Offensive Coordinator | -- |
| 2001 | Galena Park HS | Offensive Coordinator | -- |
| 2002 | Robert E. Lee HS | Offensive Coordinator | -- |
| 2003 | Robert E. Lee HS | Offensive Coordinator | -- |
| 2004 | Robert E. Lee HS | Offensive Coordinator | -- |
| 2005 | Burbank HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2006 | Steele HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2007 | Steele HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2008 | Steele HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2009 | Steele HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2010 | Steele HS | Head Coach | State Champ |
| 2011 | Steele HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2012 | Steele HS | Head Coach | -- |
| 2013 | Texas Tech | Running Backs | Holiday |
| 2014 | Texas Tech | Running Backs | -- |
| 2015 | Texas Tech | Associate Head Coach/Running Backs | Texas |
| 2016 | Bowling Green | Head Coach | -- |
| 2017 | Bowling Green | Head Coach | -- |
| 2018 | Bowling Green | Head Coach* | -- |
| 2019 | USC | Running Backs | Holiday |
| 2020 | USC | Running Backs | -- |
NFL STARS: DeAndre Washington
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