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Jack Welch
Current position
Title	Special teams coordinator & chief of staff
Team	Texas A&M–Commerce
Conference	Southland
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1980	West Texas State (GA)
1981	Santo HS (TX)
1982–1984	West Texas State (OC/ST)
1985–1986	Kansas Wesleyan
1987–1992	Fort Scott
1993	Louisiana Tech (ST/TE)
1994–2017	Copperas Cove HS (TX)
2019–present	Texas A&M–Commerce (ST/COS)
Head coaching record
Overall	8–12 (college); 34–27 (junior college); 194–91–1 (high school)
Bowls	0–3 (junior college)
Tournaments	1–3 (KJCCC playoffs)

Jack Welch is an American football coach. He is the special teams coordinator and chief of staff at Texas A&M University–Commerce, a position he has held since 2019. Welch served as the head football coach at Kansas Wesleyan University from 1985 to 1986, Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas from 1987 to 1992, and Copperas Cove High School in Copperas Cove, Texas from 1994 to 2017.

Coaching career

Kansas Wesleyan

Welch was the 17th head football coach at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas serving for two seasons, from 1985 to 1986, and compiling a record of 8–12.^[1]

The results Welch produced at Kansas Wesleyan were considered a "turnaround" because the year before his arrival, the team had winless season.^[2] At the time, the program had the nations's longest losing streak in NAIA football.^[3]

Other coaching positions

Welch's coaching career also includes stops at Texas A&M University–Commerce, Louisiana Tech University, West Texas A&M University, Fort Scott Community College.^[4]

Welch is known nationally for his recruiting and special teams, and his collegiate offensive units were highly ranked every season. He was hired in 2019 as the Special Teams Coordinator and Running Back Coach at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has most wins ever as head coach at Copperas Cove and Ft. Scott Community College.

Welch retired in 2018 from his positions as the athletic director and head football coach for Copperas Cove High School in Copperas Cove, Texas.^[5] He had record of 194–91–1 at Copperas Cove. Welch's accomplishments also include 18 berths in the state playoffs and two appearances in the Texas 4A State Championship. Welch led the Bulldawgs to eight district, ten bi-district, five area, four regional, three quarterfinal, and two state semifinal championships. Welch has the most wins of any head coach in Copperas Cove history with victories over many of Texas' most notorious 5A and 6A power houses including Odessa Permian, Converse Judson and Southlake Carroll. Welch was Class 6A "Coach of the Year" in 1998 and has been the District "Coach of the Year" eight times. He coached over 300 players at Copperas Cove who signed college scholarships and 15 players who made it to the professional ranks, 13 National Football League (NFL), including Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III and Charles Tillman, 1 to the CFL and 1 to the XFL. He is one of the top 100 coaches in wins in Texas history of high school football.

Education

Welch earned a bachelor's degree from Taylor University in Indiana, a master's degree from West Texas A&M University, and a doctorate from the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor.^[6]

Head coaching record

College


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Kansas Collegiate Athletic ConferenceMusician) (1985–1986)
1985	Kansas Wesleyan	2–8	2–7	T–8th
1986	Kansas Wesleyan	6–4	6–3	T–4th
Kansas Wesleyan:		8–12	8–10
Total:		8–12

Junior college


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Fort Scott Greyhounds (Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference) (1987–1992)
1987	Fort Scott	3–6	0–6	6th
1988	Fort Scott	5–4	2–4	T–5th
1989	Fort Scott	5–4	2–4	T–4th
1990	Fort Scott	6–5	3–3	T–3rd	L KJCCC semifinal, L RC Cola Bowl
1991	Fort Scott	7–4	4–2	T–3rd	L KJCCC semifinal, L Midwest Bowl
1992	Fort Scott	8–4	4–2	T–2nd	L KJCCC semifinal, L Valley of the Sun Bowl
Fort Scott:		34–27	15–21
Total:		34–27

High school


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Santo Wildcats () (1981)
1981	Santo	2–7
Santo:		2–7
Copperas Cove Bulldawgs () (1994–2017)
1994	Copperas Cove	5–3–1
1995	Copperas Cove	2–8
1996	Copperas Cove	7–3
1997	Copperas Cove	5–5
1998	Copperas Cove	10–3		3rd
1999	Copperas Cove	9–2		2nd
2000	Copperas Cove	11–1		1st
2001	Copperas Cove	11–1		1st
2002	Copperas Cove	7–4		3rd
2003	Copperas Cove	6–4
2004	Copperas Cove	11–2	7–0	1st
2005	Copperas Cove	13–1	7–0	1st
2006	Copperas Cove	12–3	4–1	2nd
2007	Copperas Cove	11–3	2–2	2nd
2008	Copperas Cove	13–2		2nd
2009	Copperas Cove	8–3		3rd
2010	Copperas Cove	9–2		2nd
2011	Copperas Cove	10–2		1st
2012	Copperas Cove	7–4		2nd
2013	Copperas Cove	6–5		4th
2014	Copperas Cove	7–4		2nd
2015	Copperas Cove	3–8	3–3	3rd
2016	Copperas Cove	4–5	2–4	5th
2017	Copperas Cove	5–6	3–3	3rd
Copperas Cove:		192–84–1
Total:		194–91–1
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

References

^ College Football Data Warehouse Archived October 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes coaching records
^ The Fort Scott Tribune "Hounds hope hard work turns in to playoff berth" by Dave Wagner, September 2, 1987
^ The Fort Scott Tribune "FSCC Hires New Coach for Football" by John Lechliter, February 19, 1987
^ KWTX.com "Jack of All Trades: Copperas Cove Head Coach Jack Welch" by Adam Winkler, March 11, 2008
^ coveleaderpress.com CCISD board approves Welch resignation
^ Javelina Bulletin "5 candidates to interview for head football coach" December 15, 1999