BOWLING GREEN — Mike Jinks is out as Bowling Green’s football coach, ending a rocky tenure in charge of the Falcons’ football team.
Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini will be the interim coach for the rest of the season.
Here’s a look at Jinks’ tenure by the numbers:
7-24: His overall record as the head coach. Four of the seven victories came in his first season. BG is 1-6 so far this season after going 2-10 last year.
1: Winning streak Bowling Green had under Jinks. BG won three straight to end the 2016 regular season, but has not won back-to-back games since.
Bowling Green's 2018 football schedule
15: Times Bowling Green allowed 40 or more points in Jinks’ 31 games in charge. He fired former defensive coordinator Perry Eliano and hired Pelini during the offseason. BG, which played three Power Five teams this year, has allowed 40 or more points in five games.
128: The Falcons’ current rank in points allowed, which is the second-worst mark in the Football Bowl Subdivision. They’re allowing 47.8 points per game.
3: Seasons that Jinks had been in college football coaching before the Falcons hired him in December, 2015. Jinks was a former high school football coach in Texas before Texas Tech hired him to coach their running backs. He spent 2015 as the Red Raiders’ associate head coach.
$437,228: The base salary Jinks made this season. His contract, with runs through the 2020 season, calls for him to make his base salary through the duration of the deal if he is fired without cause. The buyout can diminish if Jinks gains employment elsewhere.
660: Days between victories at Doyt Perry Stadium before Bowling Green beat Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 15. The Falcons did not win a game at home during the 2017 season.
2008: The last time Bowling Green fired its head coach. BG terminated Gregg Brandon after that season. Bowling Green’s two coaches before Jinks, Dave Clawson (Wake Forest) and Dino Babers (Syracuse), left BG to accept higher-paying jobs.
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First Published October 14, 2018, 9:49 p.m.
