Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, a 2005 Mount St. Joseph University graduate and four-year football letterwinner at MSJ, is considered among top candidates to replace Sherrone Moore as the Michigan Wolverines’ head coach.
Minter spent two seasons as the Wolverines’ DC under Jim Harbaugh. Minter left Michigan in Feb. 2024 to join Harbaugh with the Chargers.
Minter was Vanderbilt’s DC when he joined Harbaugh in Ann Arbor in Feb. 2022.
What to know about Minter, who turned 42 years old in May:
Jesse Minter is the son of former Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Rick Minter
Rick Minter was UC’s head coach from 1994 to 2003.
Jesse works with his father, currently a senior defensive analyst for the Chargers.
During NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcast in November of the Chargers’ game against Pittsburgh, Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth discussed the two seasons Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin spent as the Bearcats’ defensive backs coach, as an assistant under then-head coach Rick Minter.
“So Mike Tomlin’s breaking in, he’s at the University of Cincinnati,” Tirico said during the broadcast. “Rick Minter is the head coach of the Bearcats. Rick’s son, Jesse, is a high school sophomore receiver, and he’s watching Mike Tomlin and those DBs. That’s where the relationship formed. And it’s a relationship with the three of them that’s really lasted over a quarter-century in so many great ways.”
“And Rick Minter really had a lot to do, at least according to Mike Tomlin, with the fact that he was able to get on with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ coaching staff,” Collinsworth added. “And it was Jesse who would sit and just stare as a 16-year-old at what Mike Tomlin was doing coaching defensive backs and wide receivers. He just loved it, and so much of his style is modeled after Mike Tomlin.”
Jesse Minter also worked with Jim Harbaugh’s brother, John
Before Vanderbilt, Minter spent four seasons as a Baltimore Ravens defensive assistant, where he worked with Jim Harbaugh’s older brother.
John Harbaugh, the Ravens’ head coach since 2008, is a Miami University graduate and former UC special teams coordinator.
Jesse Minter also coached for the UC Bearcats
Jesse Minter spent two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at UC in 2007 and 2008.
Minter’s first job after leaving MSJ was as a defensive intern at Notre Dame in 2006, under then-head coach Charlie Weis.
Jesse Minter also has been a defensive coordinator at Georgia State and Indiana State.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Who is Jesse Minter? Could Chargers’ DC become Michigan’s head coach
Reporting by Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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