Mike Jinks!!

Travis · November 23, 2015

Hold on, hold on, what if the ties were North Texas ties?

That would work. :)

DougRush · November 23, 2015

This is my first post. My name is Doug Rush and I am the head baseball coach at Tomball High School. I grew up in Denton and played on the North Texas club baseball team in 82 and 83 and on its varsity program in 84 and 85. We were not very good but we were not given a chance to be either. I graduated from North Texas in 1986. I coached at Denton High until 1992 before I left to pursue head coaching opportunities. I love Denton and I love The Mean Green despite the terrible way they treated baseball in the 80's.

Anyway, I am a personal friend of Mike Jinks. We coached together and ran around together when he was right out of college and we were coaching at Killeen Ellison High School. I am telling you right now that the moment I met him I knew he was destined for greatness. He was a great quarterback at Converse Judson and a legendary quarterback at San Angelo State. And yes he loves to throw the football for you guys that were inquiring. Mike will light up a room with his personality. The kids he coaches love him. He is a great football mind and he has all the intangible to be a GREAT head college football coach. And Mike wants the U.N.T. football job. I believe he will be incredible at recruiting, at assembling a staff, at promoting the city of Denton, and at promoting our university. He is a humble but confident guy and he never meets a stranger. Other coaches would love to work for him because he would be a guy you work with and not for.

I sure hope he gets the opportunity to at least interview because I think he has a great plan in place for when he gets his opportunity.

TheReal_jayD · November 23, 2015

This is my first post. My name is Doug Rush and I am the head baseball coach at Tomball High School. I grew up in Denton and played on the North Texas club baseball team in 82 and 83 and on its varsity program in 84 and 85. We were not very good but we were not given a chance to be either. I graduated from North Texas in 1986. I coached at Denton High until 1992 before I left to pursue head coaching opportunities. I love Denton and I love The Mean Green despite the terrible way they treated baseball in the 80's.
Anyway, I am a personal friend of Mike Jinks. We coached together and ran around together when he was right out of college and we were coaching at Killeen Ellison High School. I am telling you right now that the moment I met him I knew he was destined for greatness. He was a great quarterback at Converse Judson and a legendary quarterback at San Angelo State. And yes he loves to throw the football for you guys that were inquiring. Mike will light up a room with his personality. The kids he coaches love him. He is a great football mind and he has all the intangible to be a GREAT head college football coach. And Mike wants the U.N.T. football job. I believe he will be incredible at recruiting, at assembling a staff, at promoting the city of Denton, and at promoting our university. He is a humble but confident guy and he never meets a stranger. Other coaches would love to work for him because he would be a guy you work with and not for.
I sure hope he gets the opportunity to at least interview because I think he has a great plan in place for when he gets his opportunity.

thank you for sharing Mr Rush I am hoping he gets the opportunity as well to lead UNT

KRAM1 · November 23, 2015

This is my first post. My name is Doug Rush and I am the head baseball coach at Tomball High School. I grew up in Denton and played on the North Texas club baseball team in 82 and 83 and on its varsity program in 84 and 85. We were not very good but we were not given a chance to be either. I graduated from North Texas in 1986. I coached at Denton High until 1992 before I left to pursue head coaching opportunities. I love Denton and I love The Mean Green despite the terrible way they treated baseball in the 80's.
Anyway, I am a personal friend of Mike Jinks. We coached together and ran around together when he was right out of college and we were coaching at Killeen Ellison High School. I am telling you right now that the moment I met him I knew he was destined for greatness. He was a great quarterback at Converse Judson and a legendary quarterback at San Angelo State. And yes he loves to throw the football for you guys that were inquiring. Mike will light up a room with his personality. The kids he coaches love him. He is a great football mind and he has all the intangible to be a GREAT head college football coach. And Mike wants the U.N.T. football job. I believe he will be incredible at recruiting, at assembling a staff, at promoting the city of Denton, and at promoting our university. He is a humble but confident guy and he never meets a stranger. Other coaches would love to work for him because he would be a guy you work with and not for.
I sure hope he gets the opportunity to at least interview because I think he has a great plan in place for when he gets his opportunity.

Thank you for this post. It is great to hear from someone who knows Mike Jinks and believes him to be an Excelkent candidate for our HC job. I, too, hope he gets a chance for that interview. He is lucky to have friends like you in his corner.

UNTflyer · November 23, 2015

"One of Texas’ most successful high school coaches the past decade..."

Deja vu...

meangreen08 · November 23, 2015

Maybe if we hire Jinks he could convince Davis Webb to come with him. A guy can dream can't he?

He stares down receivers a lot though. although, he would probably do very well at the C-USA level. only would have him for one year. I guess its better than nothing.

Green Dozer · November 23, 2015

This is my first post. My name is Doug Rush and I am the head baseball coach at Tomball High School. I grew up in Denton and played on the North Texas club baseball team in 82 and 83 and on its varsity program in 84 and 85. We were not very good but we were not given a chance to be either. I graduated from North Texas in 1986. I coached at Denton High until 1992 before I left to pursue head coaching opportunities. I love Denton and I love The Mean Green despite the terrible way they treated baseball in the 80's.
Anyway, I am a personal friend of Mike Jinks. We coached together and ran around together when he was right out of college and we were coaching at Killeen Ellison High School. I am telling you right now that the moment I met him I knew he was destined for greatness. He was a great quarterback at Converse Judson and a legendary quarterback at San Angelo State. And yes he loves to throw the football for you guys that were inquiring. Mike will light up a room with his personality. The kids he coaches love him. He is a great football mind and he has all the intangible to be a GREAT head college football coach. And Mike wants the U.N.T. football job. I believe he will be incredible at recruiting, at assembling a staff, at promoting the city of Denton, and at promoting our university. He is a humble but confident guy and he never meets a stranger. Other coaches would love to work for him because he would be a guy you work with and not for.
I sure hope he gets the opportunity to at least interview because I think he has a great plan in place for when he gets his opportunity.

I went to school with Doug Rush and I remember him to be stand up guy.

MeanGreenGlory · November 23, 2015

I sure hope he gets the opportunity to at least interview because I think he has a great plan in place for when he gets his opportunity.

@DougRush - So Jinks has quickly turned into a leading candidate on the message board, but he hasn't been asked to interview? Do you know if Rick Villarreal or the president have contacted him in any way?

Thanks for the info.

Cr1028 · November 27, 2015

Went to the Texas/Texas Tech game last night. Jinks is easily the most active coach on the Tech sidelines. He seems t o be a good motivator/encourager and Deandre Washington is a fantastic back under Jinks tutelage.