Tennessee’s football team entered this week with only two coaching losses since the Josh Heupel era began in 2021.
The Volunteers encountered two more.
After losing running backs coach Jerry Mack to the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday, the Tennessee
Volunteers said goodbye to linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary Thursday. The first defensive departure under
Heupel is back at Michigan, where he will be the linebackers coach and defensive run game coordinator under new
head coach Sherrone Moore.
Jean-Mary spent the 2020 season at Michigan teaching linebackers under Jim Harbaugh, following stints at Georgia
Tech (2004-09), Louisville (2010-13), Texas (2014-16), and the University of South Florida (2017-19).
During his three years with the Vols, which resulted in a 27-12 record, including a 20-6 mark the last two years,
Jean-Mary worked with Aaron Beasley, Jeremy Banks, and Elijah Herring while also dealing with season-ending
injuries to promising transfers like Juwan Mitchell in 2021 and Keenan Pili this season.
