Coaches

John Stiegelmeier

His career from Wikipedia, each job checked against the team-season pages (✓ = a second source agrees, ≠ = they disagree)

Source: Wikipedia, read 2026-10-28

Years	Team	Role	Title	Head coach
1979	South Dakota State	Other	SA	not known
1980	Northern Iowa	Other	assistant	not known
1981-1983	North HS (WI) (HS)	Other	assistant	not known
1984-1987	Northern State	DC	DC/DB/RC	not known
1988-1990	South Dakota State	Position	DB/RC	not known
1991-1997	South Dakota State (DC) (unknown)	Head coach	Head coach	himself
1997-2022	South Dakota State	Head coach	Head coach✓	himself

Confirmed coordinator seasons since 2005. FBS rankings

Season	Team	Job	EPA/play	Points/poss.	Success	Year before	Teams

Season	Head coach at	Record	AP before → after	Off EPA/play	Def EPA/play	SP+	Team year before	Teams
2004	South Dakota State (FCS)	1-4	- → -	-	-	-	-	-
2005	South Dakota State (FCS)	6-5	- → -	-	-	-	20% wins	-
2006	South Dakota State (FCS)	3-2	- → -	-	-	-	55% wins	-
2007	South Dakota State (FCS)	7-4	- → -	-	-	-	60% wins	-
2008	South Dakota State (FCS)	7-5	- → -	-	-	-	64% wins	-
2009	South Dakota State (FCS)	8-4	- → -	-	-	-	58% wins	-
2010	South Dakota State (FCS)	5-6	- → -	-	-	-	67% wins	-
2011	South Dakota State (FCS)	5-6	- → -	-	-	-	46% wins	-
2012	South Dakota State (FCS)	9-4	- → -	-	-	-	46% wins	-
2013	South Dakota State (FCS)	9-4	- → -	-	-	-	69% wins	-
2014	South Dakota State (FCS)	9-5	- → -	-	-	-	69% wins	-
2015	South Dakota State (FCS)	8-4	- → -	-	-	-	64% wins	-
2016	South Dakota State (FCS)	9-4	- → -	-	-	-	67% wins	-
2017	South Dakota State (FCS)	11-3	- → -	-	-	-	69% wins	-
2018	South Dakota State (FCS)	10-3	- → -	-	-	-	79% wins	-
2019	South Dakota State (FCS)	8-5	- → -	-	-	-	77% wins	-
2020	South Dakota State (FCS)	0-1	- → -	-	-	-	62% wins	-
2021	South Dakota State (FCS)	11-4	- → -	3	20	-	0% wins	128
2022	South Dakota State (FCS)	14-1	- → -	9	6	-	73% wins	130

Season	Head coach below FBS	Level	Record
1997	South Dakota State	Division II	4-6
1998	South Dakota State	Division II	6-5
1999	South Dakota State	Division II	8-3
2000	South Dakota State	Division II	6-5
2001	South Dakota State	Division II	5-6
2002	South Dakota State	Division II	6-4
2003	South Dakota State	Division II	7-4

None found (his assistant years may be outside the FBS seasons we hold).

Coaches who were on his staffs

No one on his staffs among the coaches we hold.

Eric Eidsness · South Dakota State 1997-2018 · him Head coach, them OC, Other, Position
Gerry Gdowski · South Dakota State 1997 · him Head coach, them OC
Josh Conklin · South Dakota State 2003-2006 · him Head coach, them GA, Position, ST coord.
Ryan Grubb · South Dakota State 2005-2006 · him Head coach, them Position
Clark Lea* · South Dakota State 2007-2008 · him Head coach, them Other, Position
Jimmy Rogers* · South Dakota State 2010-2022 · him Head coach, them DC, GA, Other, Position
Lee Marks · South Dakota State 2012 · him Head coach, them Position
Dan Jackson · South Dakota State 2014-2019 · him Head coach, them Other, Position, ST coord.
Luke Schleusner · South Dakota State 2014-2021 · him Head coach, them Position
Jake Dickert*+ · South Dakota State 2016 · him Head coach, them Position, ST coord.
Jason Eck* · South Dakota State 2016-2021 · him Head coach, them OC, Position
Brian Bergstrom · South Dakota State 2017-2021 · him Head coach, them DC, Position
Zach Lujan · South Dakota State 2017-2022 · him Head coach, them Analyst, OC, Position
Jesse Bobbit · South Dakota State 2019-2022 · him Head coach, them GA, Position