A respected, accomplished, and winning coach at the highest level of college football, Jeff is a dynamic leader who has been recognized as National Coach of the Year and taken eight teams to the post season as a head coach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is a master culture-builder and motivator who has made a name in coaching as a leader who does more with less and gets the most out of the people in his organization. Coach Monken is well known for his pre-game, half-time, and post-game speeches which have generated a following across the college football world. His teams consistently compete for championships and have produced dozens of NFL players along with several assistant coaches who have moved on to elite-level assistant coaching potions as well as head coaching positions at other colleges. Jeff’s current program is ranked in the top twenty-five nationally for most victories in college football since 2017 as well as most home victories in that same stretch. His teams have been bowl eligible in seven of the last eight seasons and has set school records for most wins in a season (11), most in two consecutive seasons (21), three seasons (29), and four seasons (34). He is the first coach in USMA school history to lead his team to three straight bowl games.
Jeff has been recognized regionally and nationally for his accomplishments as a coach. In 2011, only his second season as USMA head coach, he earned Conference and Region Coach of the Year honors. In both 2017 and 2018, he was a finalist for the Bear Bryant National Coach of the Year award. In 2018, Jeff earned the Maxwell Football Club’s Coach of the Year honor along with the Vince Lombardi College Football Coach of the Year award after winning a school-record 11 games and finishing 19 in the national polls, the first national ranking since1996 and the highest ranking since 1958. Following that historic season, Jeff was featured as a keynote speaker at the American Football Coaches Association convention, an association of over twelve thousand members, to talk specifically about his philosophy for building winning teams.