Jack Taylor - Football Coach

Jack Taylor

Title:
Tight Ends Coach

Years in Coaching: 11
Years at USF:3rd
Alma Mater: University of Missouri

Notable:
• Worked with Alex Golesh at UCF, Tennessee and USF helping to generate record-setting offenses
• As senior offensive analyst working with receivers, helped guide USF’s first 1,000-yard receiver

Bowl Experience
Coach/Staff
2024 Hawaii Bowl - USF
2023 Boca Raton Bowl – USF
2022 Orange Bowl - Tennessee
2021 Music City Bowl – Tennessee
2020 Boca Raton Bowl – UCF
2019 Gasparilla Bowl – UCF
2017 Texas Bowl - Missouri

Jack Taylor was promoted from senior quality control analyst on USF head coach Alex Golesh’s first staff in 2022 to tight ends coach in January 2023.

Taylor helped the Boca Raton Bowl-winning USF offense lead the nation in plays per game (1,028), while finishing 21^st nationally in yards (5,871), 17th in yards per game (451.6 in 13 games), and 31st in offensive touchdowns (50).

In the wide receiver room, Taylor helped develop offensive strategies that led wide receiver Sean Atkins to break the school record in receiving yards (1,054) and receptions (92), becoming the program's first 1,000-yard receiver. Atkins’ previous career totals in four seasons at USF before Taylor’s arrival were 332 yards and 29 catches. Taylor’s help also led to wide receiver Naiem Simmons setting the USF single-game receiving yards record with 272 yards in a win vs. Rice (9/23).

Taylor followed Golesh from the University of Tennessee to USF in 2022 after serving as an offensive analyst under head coach Josh Heupel for two seasons (2021-22). At UT, Taylor did his part to help the Vols become the nation’s highest-scoring and most explosive offense in 2022, shattering program records and rising to No. 1 in the nation in scoring (47.33), yards per game (538.1), points per possession (3.24) and yards per play (7.35). Tennessee was the only team to average over 300 yards passing and 200 yards rushing in the 2022 season and had scored 40-plus points in 15 of its 25 games since Taylor’s arrival. He was part of a staff that helped propel the Vols from three wins (3-7) the season before his arrival to 10 wins and a No. 6 College Football Playoff ranking in 2022.

Before Taylor’s time in Knoxville, Tenn., he spent two seasons at UCF (2019-20) under then-head coach Josh Heupel. Taylor served as an offensive quality control specialist, developing practice plans, team goals, and improvement strategies, while working directly with Heupel and leading the Knights’ scout team. During the 2020 season, Taylor first worked with then-UCF co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Alex Golesh.

Before his time with Heupel and Golesh, Taylor served in his first analyst position in college football for one season (2018) as an offensive quality control specialist for Southern Methodist University.

Taylor’s coaching career first took off during his time as a student at the University of Missouri. From Feb. 2015 through Sept. 2017, he worked as a student assistant coach. Taylor attended the University of Missouri starting in 2013, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Multi/Interdisciplinary studies by the spring of 2017.

Taylor Year-by-Year
Year(s)           Team                    Position
2024-              USF                      Tight Ends Coach
2023               USF Senior Offensive Quality Control Analyst
2021-22 Tennessee Offensive Quality Control Analyst
2019-20         UCF                       Offensive Quality Control Analyst
2018               SMU                      Offensive Quality Control Analyst
2015-17 Missouri Student Assistant Coach

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