Current position | |
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Title | Offensive coordinator |
Team | Coast Guard |
Biographical details | |
Alma mater | Trinity (CT) (1991) |
Playing career | |
1987–1990 | Trinity (CT) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1991 | Brown (TE) |
1992–1993 | Trinity (CT) (OL) |
1994–1995 | Bates (OL) |
1996–1997 | Chicago (RB) |
1998 | Trinity (CT) (OL) |
1999–2001 | Illinois Wesleyan (OC) |
2003–2014 | Endicott |
2015–2018 | Bowdoin |
2019–2021 | Kingswood Oxford School (CT) |
2022–present | Coast Guard (OC) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 78–79 (college) |
Bowls | 2–0 |
Tournaments | 0–2 (NCAA D-III playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 NEFC (2010, 2013) 3 NEFC Boyd Division (2004, 2010, 2012) | |
J. B. Wells is an American football coach. He was the first head football coach at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, serving from 2003 to 2014. [1] Wells was the head football coach at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine from 2015 to 2018. [2]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Endicott Gulls (New England Football Conference)(2003–2014) | |||||||||
2003 | Endicott | 4–5 | 3–3 | 4th (Boyd) | |||||
2004 | Endicott | 6–4 | 5–1 | T–1st (Boyd) | |||||
2005 | Endicott | 7–3 | 5–1 | 2nd (Boyd) | |||||
2006 | Endicott | 6–4 | 5–2 | 2nd (Boyd) | |||||
2007 | Endicott | 3–6 | 3–4 | 5th (Boyd) | |||||
2008 | Endicott | 3–7 | 2–5 | 7th (Boyd) | |||||
2009 | Endicott | 5–5 | 3–5 | T–4th (Boyd) | |||||
2010 | Endicott | 9–3 | 6–1 | T–1st (Boyd) | L NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
2011 | Endicott | 10–1 | 6–1 | 2nd (Boyd) | W ECAC Bowl | ||||
2012 | Endicott | 9–2 | 6–1 | T–1st (Boyd) | W ECAC Bowl | ||||
2013 | Endicott | 8–3 | 7–0 | 1st | L NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
2014 | Endicott | 5–5 | 4–3 | 4th | |||||
Endicott: | 75–48 | 55–27 | |||||||
Bowdoin Polar Bears (New England Small College Athletic Conference)(2015–2018) | |||||||||
2015 | Bowdoin | 2–6 | 2–6 | T–6th | |||||
2016 | Bowdoin | 0–8 | 0–8 | T–9th | |||||
2017 | Bowdoin | 0–9 | 0–9 | 10th | |||||
2018 | Bowdoin | 1–8 | 1–8 | 9th | |||||
Bowdoin: | 3–31 | 3–31 | |||||||
Total: | 78–79 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
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