Jeffrey Michael Tisdel (born January 10, 1956) is a former

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coach. He served as the head football coach at the

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from 1996 to 1999, compiling a record of 23–22. Tisdel has two stints as the head football coach at

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, a junior college in

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, from 2000 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2012. His accomplishments include coaching the

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in its first

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victory, in the

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, and leading Sierra to a nation-leading 37-game winning streak between 2002 and 2005. Tisdel was also the first

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for Nevada to play in Division I-AA, moving up from Division II in 1978 and the first quarterback to play for

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, who became a member of the

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in 2002. After taking the 2006 season off, Tisdel returned to coaching his Sierra College team which ended the 2007 season ranked fifth in the nation by

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Coaching career

Tisdel experienced his greatest successes at the junior college level, especially at

, where he brought a relative no-name program to national prominence at its level of competition by collecting three conference championships and, in his first year there, brought Sierra College to second place in the

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. He also had success in his first head coaching position at

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, where his teams won three Northern California Athletic League championships. Tisdel's head coaching record at the college level was more mixed. In 1996, he was hired as the head football coach at the

. His 1996 team compiled a 9–3 record, secured the

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title, and won the

, Nevada's first victory in an

. Tisdel's subsequent Nevada teams were mediocre until, in the 1999 season, he coached Nevada to its worst record since

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at 3–8. Tisdel announced his resignation prior to the final game of the 1999 season. His successor,

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, coached Nevada to an even more futile 2–10 record the

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, the program's worst record since

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's 1–9 season in

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, and was fired after the end of the 2003 season.

Head coaching record

College

Junior college

References

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