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- Coached in seven bowl games while helping teams to five conference championships and one national championship
- Joins the Vols after spending the last three seasons at Cincinnati
- Worked as the Bearcats sole defensive coordinator in 2012 after serving as UC's co-defensive coordinator in 2010 and 2011
- Also served as Bearcats recruiting coordinator for two seasons, signing the Big East's top recruiting class according the Sporting News in 2011
- Coached UC's defense to a Top 20 ranking in scoring defense in 2011 and 2012
- Guided UC to the nation's leading defense in terms of tackles for loss (8.62 per game) and second in sacks (3.46) in 2011
- In 2012, coached Greg Blair to First Team All-Big Easthonors after the senior finished the season leading the Big East in tackles with 138 on the year
- Coached 2011 Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year and current Denver Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe as well as First Team All-Big East selections Drew Frey and JK Schaffer
- Schaffer, a two-year captain, was the 2011 American Eagle Outfitters Big East Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year. He is just the fourth player in Big East history to register at least 100 tackles in three consecutive seasons, culminating in a career-high 114 stops in the 2011 season. He earned All-Big East First Team honors in 2011 after he ranked third in the conference in tackles (8.8 per game)
- Prior to Cincinnati, spent five seasons at the University of Georgia (2005-09)
- Coached the linebackers in all five seasons with the Bulldogs and served as co-defensive coordinator in 2009
- During his five years in Athens, helped the Bulldogs to 48 wins, two BCS Bowl games, an SEC Championship and finished in the Top 10 three times
- In 2009, mentored Rennie Curran, who led the SEC in tackles and was a finalist for the Lombardi and Bendarik Awards before going to the play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- In 2008, UGA linebacker Darryl Gamble earned the Bronco Nagurski National Player of the Week honor and received an ESPN Helmet Sticker from the College Gameday Final crew after intercepting a pair of passes for touchdowns against LSU
- Coached at Central Michigan from 2003-04 working with the defensive line his first year and as defensive coordinator in the second season
- Worked at Division II power, his alma mater, Grand Valley State from 1999-2002, helping GVSU to the D-II National Championship under current Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly in 2002
- Also worked at Wayne State (1992-96), Central Florida (1996), Hillsdale College in Michigan (1996-98)
- Muskegeon, Mich., native, graduated from Grand Valley State in 1991 and earned a master's degree from Wayne State in 1994
- Jancek and his wife Kelly have four children, Zac (16), Brock (13), Jack (11), and Brady (9)
