Jeff Meyer | |
Birth Date: | 21 June 1954 |
Birth Place: | Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Taylor ('76) |
Coach Years1: | 1978–1980 |
Coach Team1: | Purdue (asst.) |
Coach Years2: | 1980–1981 |
Coach Team2: | South Florida (asst.) |
Coach Years3: | 1981–1997 |
Coach Team3: | Liberty |
Coach Years4: | 1998–2001 |
Coach Team4: | Winthrop (asst.) |
Coach Years5: | 2001–2004 |
Coach Team5: | Butler (asst.) |
Coach Years6: | 2004–2006 |
Coach Team6: | Missouri (asst.) |
Coach Years7: | 2006–2008 |
Coach Team7: | Indiana (asst.) |
Coach Years8: | 2008–2017 |
Coach Team8: | Michigan (asst.) |
Coach Years9: | 2017–2020 |
Coach Team9: | Butler (asst.) |
Overall Record: | 259–206 (.557) |
Championships: | Big South tournament champion (1994) Big South regular season co-champions (1997) 2× Big Ten regular season champion (2007, 2014) |
Jeffrey Dennis Meyer (born June 21, 1954) is a former American college basketball coach, most recently an assistant at Butler University. He was brought on in June 2017 as assistant coach by new head coach and former Michigan assistant LaVall Jordan. He previously served as a men's basketball assistant coach at Michigan under John Beilein and Indiana University during the Kelvin Sampson tenure.
He graduated in 1976 from Taylor University and played basketball with the Trojans while he was there.[1]
Previously, he served as head coach at Liberty University where he remains the winningest coach in school history. He was named head coach of the then Liberty Baptist College on March 25, 1981. He stepped down as head coach to become assistant to the president of Liberty on November 1, 1997.[2]
On November 3, 2020, Meyer announced his retirement from coaching.[3]