Jerome Souers

Jerome Souers
Current position
Title	Defensive coordinator
Team	Southern Oregon
Conference	Frontier
Biographical details
Born	May 20, 1958 (age 66)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984	Western Washington (DC/DB)
1985	Portland State (RB)
1986–1988	Montana (DB)
1989–1997	Montana (DC/DB)
1998–2018	Northern Arizona
2020–present	Southern Oregon (DC)
Head coaching record
Overall	123–114
Tournaments	1–5 (NCAA D-I playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	1 Big Sky (2003)
Awards
	Big Sky Coach of the Year (1999)

Jerome Souers (born May 20, 1958) is an American football coach. He was formerly the head football coach at Northern Arizona University, a position he held from 1998 until 2018.^[1] Souers was selected as the 1999 Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year and was an Eddie Robinson Award finalist in 2003.

He was raised in Eugene, Oregon and attended North Eugene High School along with former NBA player and head coach Danny Ainge.

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	Sports Network/STATS^#	USA/ESPN^°
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks (Big Sky Conference) (1998–2018)
1998	Northern Arizona	6–5	3–5	T–7th
1999	Northern Arizona	4–8^{[n 1]}	2–6^{[n 1]}	T–7th^{[n 1]}	L I-AA Playoffs First Round	16	19
2000	Northern Arizona	3–8	2–6	T–7th
2001	Northern Arizona	8–4	5–2	2nd	L I-AA Playoffs First Round	16	15
2002	Northern Arizona	6–5	3–4	T–4th
2003	Northern Arizona	9–4	5–2	T–1st	L I-AA Playoffs Quarterfinal	10	9
2004	Northern Arizona	4–7	3–4	5th
2005	Northern Arizona	3–8	1–6	T–7th
2006	Northern Arizona	6–5	5–3	4th
2007	Northern Arizona	6–5	5–3	3rd
2008	Northern Arizona	6–5	4–4	5th
2009	Northern Arizona	5–6	4–4	T–5th
2010	Northern Arizona	6–5	4–4	6th
2011	Northern Arizona	4–7	3–5	6th
2012	Northern Arizona	8–3	6–2	4th
2013	Northern Arizona	9–3	7–1	2nd	L FCS Playoffs First Round
2014	Northern Arizona	7–5	5–3	T–5th
2015	Northern Arizona	7–4	5–3	T–4th
2016	Northern Arizona	5–6	4–4	T–6th
2017	Northern Arizona	7–5	6–2	T–3rd	L FCS Playoffs First Round
2018	Northern Arizona	4–6	3–4	8th
Northern Arizona:		123–114	85–77
Total:		123–114
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
^#Rankings from final Sports Network poll. ^°Rankings from final USA/ESPN poll.

^ ^a ^b ^c Northern Arizona later forfeited four conference victories during the 1999 season because of the use of an inelligble player.

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