Mike Sherman Biography
Mike Sherman (Full name – Michael Francis Sherman) is an American gridiron football coach and former player who was born on December 19, 1954, Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S. Until June 2019, he was the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
From 2000 to 2005, Sherman was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He guided the Packers to five back to back winning seasons from 2000–04 and three divisional titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
Mike Sherman was also the head football coach at Texas A&M University from 2008 to 2011. In the NFL, he has also been a coach for the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Miami Dolphins. Sherman served as an assistant coach at five different colleges, including Texas A&M, where he coached the offensive line for seven seasons before he started coaching in the NFL. He is one of only a few coaches that has been a head coach at the high school, college, CFL and NFL level.
Mike Sherman Wife
Since 1982, Mike Sherman has been married to his wife Karen and the couple has five children together. Karen is a former reading and special education teacher who is a very active member of the West Dennis Library Board of Trustees.
Mike Sherman Son-in-law | Bengals
Sarah, Sherman’s oldest child, is married to Zac Taylor with whom she has four children. Sherman’s son-in-law, Zac Taylor, is the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL.
Mike Sherman Age
Sherman was born on December 19, 1954, in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. He has coached in different capacities since 1981. Sherman turns 65 years old in 2019.
Mike Sherman Texas A&M Aggies
Mike Sherman coached the Texas A&M offensive line from 1989 to 1993. He met retired head coach Gary Kubiak during the 1992–93 season. Kubiak had coached the A&M running backs.
Sherman left Texas A&M in 1994, to coach the UCLA offensive line, which included former Baltimore Ravens pro-bowler, Jonathan Ogden. He later returned to Texas A&M to coach the offensive line again for the 1995–96 seasons. The Aggie offense averaged over 400 yards of total offense four times of his seven seasons at A&M under Sherman. The 1990 Aggie team set a school record of 471.1 yards per game.
Mike Sherman also helped the Aggies to win three Southwest Conference championships consecutively from 1991 to 1993. Additionally, he recruited Leeland McElroy, who would become one of the Aggies’ top 10 all-time leading running backs.
Mike Holmgren hired Sherman to become the offensive coordinator for the 1999 season after he resigned as Packers head coach to accept the Seattle Seahawks head coach position.
Mike Sherman returned to the Texas A&M football team in November 2007 as the head coach. He signed a seven-year contract that at the time paid him $1.8 million annually. Sherman abandoned the zone-read option offense run by former A&M coach Dennis Franchione and installed a pro-style offense similar to those used in the NFL. He uses a balanced offense run primarily out of pro-style formations.
The Aggies started the 2010 season 3–3 after two straight losing seasons but won their final six games to finish 9–3 and earn a share of the Big 12 South Division title. After the 2010 season, he signed a contract extension through the 2015 season. His salary was raised to $2.2 million.
The Aggies began as a top 10 ranked team in 2011 but fell out of the polls after losing four games, three of which had double-digit half-time leads. Three of those four losses were to teams later ranked among the top ten in the nation. The Aggies defeated Kansas by a score of 61–7 on November 19, 2011, and became bowl-eligible for a third straight season.
On November 24, 2011, five days later, they would lose at home to the University of Texas 27–25 on a last-second field goal, in what would likely be the last game of the rivalry. It was the Aggies’ sixth loss of the season and the fifth in which they held a second-half lead of two or more scores.
Mike Sherman was fired by Texas A&M on December 1, 2011.
Mike Sherman Dolphins
On January 27, 2012, the Miami Dolphins hired Mike Sherman as offensive coordinator. They also drafted Ryan Tannehill with the 8th overall pick on April 27, 2012. Sherman coached Tannehill at Texas A&M and was instrumental in the decision-making leading to the Dolphins selecting Tannehill. The Dolphins fired Sherman on January 6, 2014, after an 8–8 season and ending the 2013 season ranked as the 27th best offense in the league.
Mike Sherman Montreal Alouettes
Sherman was hired by the Montreal Alouettes as head coach on December 20, 2017. He, along with June Jones and Marc Trestman during the 2018 CFL season, had the distinction of having both CFL and NFL head coaching experience to coach in the same season. He finished with a 5-13 record in his first full season with the Alouettes.
On June 8, 2019, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League announced they had parted ways with Sheman. In other words, he was fired. The decision came just days before the team’s season opener. Quarterbacks coach Khari Jones took over as the head coach.
Mike Sherman Net Worth
Mike Sherman is an American former professional football coach who was born in Norwood, Massachusetts in December 1954. He has served as a head coach at the high school, college, CFL and NFL levels. Sherman has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Mike Sherman Past Teams Coached
- Green Bay Packers
- Houston Texans
- Texas A&M Aggies
- Miami Dolphins
- Nauset Regional High School
- Montreal Alouettes