Jerome Souers

Jerome Souers
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Montana State–Northern
Conference	Frontier
Record	1–19
Biographical details
Born	May 20, 1958 (age 65)
Alma mater	University of Oregon
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984	Western Washington (DC/DB)
1985	Portland State (RB)
1986–1989	Montana (DB)
1990–1997	Montana (DC/DB)
1998–2018	Northern Arizona
2020–2021	Southern Oregon (DC)
2022–present	Montana State–Northern
Head coaching record
Overall	124–133
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 is the head football coach for Montana State University–Northern, a position he has held since 2022.^[1] He was formerly the head football coach at Northern Arizona University, a position he held from 1998 until 2018.^[2] 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[edit]


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	STATS^#	Coaches^°
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 NCAA Division I-AA First Round	16	19
2000	Northern Arizona	3–8	2–6	T–7th
2001	Northern Arizona	8–4	5–2	2nd	L NCAA Division I-AA First Round	16	15
2002	Northern Arizona	6–5	3–4	T–4th
2003	Northern Arizona	9–4	5–2	T–1st	L NCAA Division I-AA 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		20	15
2013	Northern Arizona	9–3	7–1	2nd	L NCAA Division I First Round	15	15
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 NCAA Division I First Round	25
2018	Northern Arizona	4–6	3–4	8th
Northern Arizona:		123–114	85–77
Montana State–Northern Lights (Frontier Conference) (2022–present)
2022	Montana State–Northern	0–10	0–10	8th
2023	Montana State–Northern	1–9	0–8	9th
2024	Montana State–Northern	0–0	0–0
Montana State–Northern:		1–19	0–18
Total:		124–133
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
^#Rankings from final Sports Network poll. ^°Rankings from final USA/ESPN poll.

Notes[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ "MSU-Northern hires former UM assistant, NAU head coach Jerome Souers to lead football program". missoulian.com. Missoulian. January 14, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
^ Jerome Souers will not coach NAU football in 2019

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[1999forfeits-3] Northern Arizona later forfeited four conference victories during the 1999 season because of the use of an inelligble player.

[1] "MSU-Northern hires former UM assistant, NAU head coach Jerome Souers to lead football program". missoulian.com. Missoulian. January 14, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022.

[2] Jerome Souers will not coach NAU football in 2019

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