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Tennessee football: Ranking all 28 offseason coaching changes by impact on Vols

By Caleb Calhoun

Tennessee Herd Coach Josh Heupel at the 2021 Music City Bowl NCAA college football game at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.Kns Tennessee Purdue
Tennessee Herd Coach Josh Heupel at the 2021 Music City Bowl NCAA college football game at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.Kns Tennessee Purdue /
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Jerry Kill accepts a NMSU football helmet as the New Mexico State Aggies face off against the University of New Mexico Lobos at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021.Kill 2
Jerry Kill accepts a NMSU football helmet as the New Mexico State Aggies face off against the University of New Mexico Lobos at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021.Kill 2 /

900. Scouting Report. Jerry Kill. 22. player. Pick Analysis. New Mexico St. Aggies. Doug Martin

Previous role: Interim head coach, TCU Horned Frogs

Again, this is a hire away from a Power Five program. In this case, the hire involves somebody who was a head coach at the previous Power Five program, and although it didn’t impact his leaving, him not staying on that Power Five program’s staff had an impact.

Jerry Kill is a veteran head coach who spent eight years in FCS play before taking over the Northern Illinois Huskies in 2008. After three years there, he had his most notable run with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, where he coached from 2011 to 2015. However, midway through 2015, he had to retire due to health issues.

In 2017, Kill returned to the sport as the Rutgers Scarlet Knights offensive coordinator. Two years later, he became an assistant on the Virginia Tech Hokies. Then he became an assistant on Gary Patterson’s staff in 2020. Patterson resigned midseason in 2021, and Kill took over, going 2-2 those final two games.

It looks like Kill is in decent enough shape to take over full-time head coaching again, and which led him to New Mexico State. Doug Martin’s contract was not renewed there after nine season, where he went 25-74 and had just one winning record, going 7-6 in 2016.

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