NDSU

Jake Landry was the offensive coordinator and running backs coach at North Dakota State University in 2024. The Bison won the Missouri Valley Football Conference with a 7-1 record and finished 14-2 overall in winning the NCAA Division I FCS national championship.

After the January 2025 retirement of longtime NDSU quarterbacks coach Randy Hedberg, Landry became the quarterbacks coach briefly before leaving NDSU to accept a job as the running backs coach at Iowa State University.
 
At NDSU, Landry coached 2024 Jerry Rice Award winner CharMar Brown, who led all FCS freshmen in rushing attempts, yards and touchdowns. Brown was NDSU's leading rusher with 244 carries for 1,181 yards and 15 touchdowns, becoming the first Bison tailback in seven years to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark.

Landry, a native of Grand Forks, N.D., was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at St. Thomas for two seasons prior to coming to NDSU. He brought 13 years of coaching experience including nine at Division I level with three different programs.
 
Landry helped guide St. Thomas to the 2022 Pioneer Football League championship with the No. 1 scoring offense in the league averaging 32.6 points per game. The Tommies went 10-1 that year and ranked second in the league with 200.2 rushing yards per game.
 
Prior to coaching at St. Thomas, he spent three seasons at Temple University, where he was an offensive analyst working with the offensive line and running backs in 2019 and 2020 and the quarterbacks coach in 2021.
 
Landry spent four seasons on the offensive staff at Northern Illinois, where he was part of two Mid-American Conference championships and four West Division titles. He worked alongside current NDSU head coach Tim Polasek in 2013 as an offensive intern with the quarterbacks, and he was a graduate assistant in 2014 with the linebackers and 2015 with the quarterbacks.
 
Before returning to Northern Illinois as a running backs coach in 2018, Landry was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Wisconsin-La Crosse for two seasons in 2016 and 2017. Both of those teams led the conference in passing offense with more than 300 yards per game.
 
Landry started his coaching career at Minnesota-Duluth, where he was a graduate assistant coaching wide receivers in 2011 and 2012 under current South Dakota head coach Bob Nielson. He was part of two divisional championships in the Northern Sun Conference and two NCAA playoff appearances.
 
A state championship-winning quarterback at Grand Forks Central High School in 2005, Landry went on to become a two-year starting quarterback and team captain for the University of North Dakota during his playing career from 2007 to 2010.
 
Landry graduated from North Dakota in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. He earned a master’s degree in education from Minnesota-Duluth in 2015 and a master’s degree in sports management from Northern Illinois in 2020.

Jake Landry Year-By-Year Coaching History

Year	School	Position
2011	Minnesota-Duluth	Graduate Assistant – Wide Receivers
2012	Minnesota-Duluth	Graduate Assistant – Wide Receivers
2013	Northern Illinois	Offensive Intern – Quarterbacks
2014	Northern Illinois	Graduate Assistant – Linebackers
2015	Northern Illinois	Graduate Assistant – Quarterbacks
2016	Wisconsin-La Crosse	Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2017	Wisconsin-La Crosse	Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2018	Northern Illinois	Running Backs
2019	Temple	Offensive Analyst
2020	Temple	Offensive Analyst
2021	Temple	Quarterbacks
2022	St. Thomas	Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2023	St. Thomas	Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2024	North Dakota State	Offensive Coordinator/Running Backs