Jim Ryan (American football coach)

American football coach (born 1975)

Jim Ryan
Biographical details
Born	(1975-07-10) July 10, 1975 (age 49)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000	Fort Lewis (DL)
2000	Delta State (GA)
2001	North Alabama (GA)
2002	Colorado College (DC)
2003–2007	Illinois College (DC)
2008–2015	Washington University (DC)
2016–2019	Rhodes

Head coaching record
Overall	16–24

Jim Ryan (born July 10, 1975) is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee from 2016 to 2019 compiling a record of 16–24. Ryan coached at Washington University in St. Louis from 2008 to 2015, the last four in which he was the defensive coordinator, and at Illinois College from 2003 to 2007. In 2015, Ryan was named the AFCA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year. He was interim head coach at Colorado College in 2003 where he also served as defensive coordinator during the 2002 season. He was an assistant coach at the University of North Alabama, Delta State University, and Fort Lewis College.

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Rhodes Lynx (Southern Athletic Association) (2016–2019)
2016	Rhodes	6–4	4–4	T–5th
2017	Rhodes	4–6	3–5	5th
2018	Rhodes	5–5	3–5	T–5th
2019	Rhodes	1–9	1–7	8th
Rhodes:		16–24	11–22
Total:		16–24

"Jim Ryan Tabbed as AFCA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year". WUSTL Athletics. December 8, 2015. Archived from the original on March 4, 2018. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
"2016 Football Coaching Staff Jim Ryan Head Football Coach". Rhodes Lynx. Rhodes College. Retrieved July 5, 2017.

v t e Rhodes Lynx head football coaches
Wallace Muir (1896) No coach (1898) Thomas W. Elsom Jr. (1899) Unknown (1900–1904) Malcom E. Whitefield (1905) Innis Brown (1906) David G. Wettlin (1907) No coach (1908) Cleveland P. Huggins (1909) Walter M. Rogers (1910) Allen Brown (1911–1912) Unknown (1913–1914) Benton L. Boykin (1915) Unknown (1916–1917) Brown (1918) Robert P. Richardson (1919) Ralph C. Kenney (1920–1923) Jess Neely (1924–1927) Bill Mallory (1928) Webb Burke (1929–1930) Jimmy R. Haygood (1931–1934) Clyde Propst (1935–1937) Ed Kubale (1938–1941) No team (1942–1945) Al Clemens (1946–1950) No team (1951) Glenn Johnson (1952–1953) Richard Mays (1954–1960) Jesse Johnson (1961–1968) Don Lear (1969–1975) Dick Thornton (1976–1978) Gary Troll (1979–1983) Mike Clary (1984–1996) Joe White (1997–2010) Dan Gritti (2011–2015) Jim Ryan (2016–2019) Travis James # (2020) Rich Duncan (2021– ) # denotes interim head coach

# denotes interim head coach

v t e 2000 Delta State Statesmen football—NCAA Division II national champions
Jamall Johnson Reed Stringer Head coach Steve Campbell Assistant coaches: Mark Hudspeth Mike Kershaw Gwaine Mathews Jim Ryan Chris Willis