Mike Yeager
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- Title:
- Assistant Coach - 1st season
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- Phone:
- 419-448-3339
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- Email:
- yeagermr@tiffin.edu
Mike Yeager enters his first season with the Dragons football program. He will serve as Defensive Coordinator.
Yeager comes to Tiffin after five seasons as Carthage Head Football Coach. Yeager’s tenure at the helm of Carthage started as the Red Men's interim head coach for the final three games of the 2012 season. Prior to that, Yeager served as Carthage’s defensive coordinator in both 2011 and 2012.
Since becoming the full-time head coach in 2012, Yeager led the improvement of the football facilities, modernized athletic performance training for Carthage athletes, and brought new concepts to both sides of the ball. On the field, these changes yielded results, as the Carthage program showed steady improvement, increasing its win total each year, including a 5-5 record in 2015 and 7-3 record in 2017. 2016's seven-win season was just the 19th in program history, placing Yeager in elite class with Art Keller and Tim Rucks as the only coaches to lead the Red Men to at least seven wins in a season. The 2017 season saw the Red Men complete another 7-3 season. The 14 wins over the last two seasons is the most for the program since the 2004-05 seasons.
Before Carthage, Yeager coached in the Big Ten conference, serving as an assistant coach at Indiana University for five years from 2006 to 2010 with three years coaching the safeties and two years with the linebackers. Yeager was a graduate assistant for the Hoosiers in 2005. While at Indiana, Yeager coached two years with the noted IU and Miami University football coach, the late Terry Hoeppner, who led a resurgence of the Hoosier program.
Prior to his arrival at Indiana, Yeager spent five years as an assistant coach at the College of Wooster, including the 2003 and 2004 seasons as defensive coordinator for the Scots. In Yeager’s last year as defensive coordinator, the Scots completed an undefeated 10-0 regular season campaign, and won their first-round NCAA playoff game.
Since becoming the full-time head coach in 2012, Yeager led the improvement of the football facilities, modernized athletic performance training for Carthage athletes, and brought new concepts to both sides of the ball. On the field, these changes yielded results, as the Carthage program showed steady improvement, increasing its win total each year, including a 5-5 record in 2015 and 7-3 record in 2017. 2016's seven-win season was just the 19th in program history, placing Yeager in elite class with Art Keller and Tim Rucks as the only coaches to lead the Red Men to at least seven wins in a season. The 2017 season saw the Red Men complete another 7-3 season. The 14 wins over the last two seasons is the most for the program since the 2004-05 seasons.
Before Carthage, Yeager coached in the Big Ten conference, serving as an assistant coach at Indiana University for five years from 2006 to 2010 with three years coaching the safeties and two years with the linebackers. Yeager was a graduate assistant for the Hoosiers in 2005. While at Indiana, Yeager coached two years with the noted IU and Miami University football coach, the late Terry Hoeppner, who led a resurgence of the Hoosier program.
Prior to his arrival at Indiana, Yeager spent five years as an assistant coach at the College of Wooster, including the 2003 and 2004 seasons as defensive coordinator for the Scots. In Yeager’s last year as defensive coordinator, the Scots completed an undefeated 10-0 regular season campaign, and won their first-round NCAA playoff game.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Yeager lettered three times at linebacker at Miami University between 1996 and 1999. As a senior, he was third on the team in tackles (116) and tied for the team lead in interceptions (3). He graduated in 1999 with a bachelor's in sport organization. He and his wife, Katrin, have two daughters, Rylan (eight years old), and Brooklyn (three), and a son, Will (five).