Jim Young, a volunteer partner instructor at the Men’s Center, is a Hall of Fame football coach with a passion for coaching men into their full potential. He conducts an 8-session course, three to four times a year, on setting goals and priorities called Carpe Diem “Seize The Day!”

Jim was born and raised in Van Wert, Ohio. He and his wife of 48 years, Jane, have five children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

A look at his record will tell a great story. Jim played football under the legendary Woody Hayes at Ohio, and got a Master’s Degree at Bowling Green. He gained coaching experience under Bo Schembechler at Miami University (Ohio) and at the University of Michigan. He was Acting Head Coach when Michigan won the 1970 Rose Bowl.

Jim was head coach at:

• Arizona 1973-76 (W-33 L-13)
• Purdue University 1976-81 (W-38 L-19)
• West Point, 1983-90 (W-51 L-39)
• Offensive Line Coach under Dick Tomey at Arizona 1992-94
• Retired in 1995.

Totals as a player and a coach:

• W-352, L-125, T-12
• Twenty Championships
• Eight undefeated seasons
• Eighteen bowl games
• Halls of Fame:
  • College Football Hall of Fame 1999
  • Lima Shawnee 1988
  • Bowling Green State University 1989
  • University of Arizona 1996
  • Purdue University 2004.

Jim is very humble and does not brag about his accomplishments. Yet, with his record dripping with the experience of success, Jim knows how to connect with the hearts and minds of men, and how to motivate them to set worthy goals.

Jim is constantly setting goals for himself. He obtained a Masters in Military Studies, Land Warfare in 2004. He conducts leadership-motivational seminars for football teams and coaching staffs, is writing books, and serves the Christian community through the Stephen Ministries.

His Christian experience provides great insight into the mindset of men who face great challenges. Since he is an astute observer of people and their beliefs, he is eminently qualified to make a case for setting good goals in one’s search for recovery and integrity.

Students of his Carpe Diem classes are better prepared for the discipling classes of the Life Foundations Restoration Program operated by the Men’s Center. The Men’s Center staff deeply appreciates the contribution Jim is making to the fifty Restoration students in their search for a wise, moral, responsible and lawful lifestyle.

Lonny Davis
Men’s Center Director