Football
Dougherty, Jimmie
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Ohio State
Sep 27 (Sat)
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Jimmie Dougherty
- Title:
- Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks Coach
Jimmie Dougherty, who spent the 2009 through 2012 seasons as an assistant coach at UW, returned to Montlake as the Huskies' passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the 2024 season. In February of 2025, he was promoted to offensive coordinator, while retaining his role as quarterbacks coach.
In his first season at UW, Dougherty mentored Husky QBs Will Rogers and Demond Williams. Rogers finished his five-year college career with 14,773 yards, 10th most in NCAA-FBS history. Rogers also finished in the FBS top-20 in career touchdown passes, with 108. In his lone year at UW, Rogers smashed the school record for completion percentage, with a .717 mark, 32 points higher than the old mark.
Williams, a true freshman, also played in every game, and started both the season finale at No. 1 Oregon and the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. Had he met the requisite number of completions for the single-season record (Willams was 82-for-105; 100 completions are required), he'd have broken the single-season Husky records for completion percentage (.781) and pass efficiency rating (176.9).
Before returning to Seattle, Dougherty spent the previous three season on Coach Jedd Fisch's staff at Arizona, where he helped the Wildcats reach new heights, both offensively and as a team. That success was capped in 2023, when Arizona finished the season 10-3 and beat Oklahoma in the Valero Alamo Bowl.
In 2023, Dougherty coaches redshirt-freshman quarterback Noah Fifita, the FWAA Offensive Freshman of the Year and the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year. Fifita, who began the year as a the backup, but started nine games, led the 'Cats to a seven-game winning streak. For the season, he completed 241-of-333 (.724) passes for 2,869 yards, 25 touchdowns and six interceptions.
As a team, Arizona QBs completed 71.6 percent of their passes for 4,008 yards. Fifita was eighth in the nation in passing efficiency and fifth in completion percentage while the Arizona passing offense ranked No. 8 in FBS.
Arizona's offense was also eighth in third-down conversions, 14th in fourth-down conversions, 10th in red-zone offense, 10th in passing efficiency, 18th in scoring offense and 20th in total offense.
In his second season with Arizona in 2022, the Wildcats averaged 461.9 yards of total offense per game to finish 22nd nationally. Arizona passed for 318.4 yards per game, good for the 8th ranked passing attack nationally. The Wildcats development and growth on offense was historical as Jayden de Laura passed for 3,685 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2022, which ranked sixth and third respectively in program history for a season. Dougherty was nominated for the Broyles Award, which honors the nation's top assistant coach.
In 2022, Arizona's offense was one of the most improved in the nation. Arizona went from the 124th in the nation in scoring offense in Fisch and Dougherty's first season to 48th in 2022. Similarly, Arizona rose to 22nd in the NCAA in total offense in 2022 after finishing 101st the year before.
During his first season in Tucson in 2021, Dougherty navigated numerous injuries at the quarterback position to produce a passing attack that averaged nearly 215 yards per game. Wide receiver Stanley Berryhill III set career-high marks in receptions (83) and receiving yards (744) en route to earning first-team All-Pac-12.
Dougherty also played a key role in building Arizona's 2022 signing class that ranked second in the Pac-12 (22nd nationally) and included the first five-star signee in program history.
Dougherty arrived in Tucson following four seasons at UCLA as passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. The Bruins' offense finished atop the Pac-12 in total offense in 2020 and second in scoring, as a trio of UCLA offensive players earned second team all-conference honors.
Under his tutelage at UCLA, Kyle Phillips set the school record for most catches by a freshman in 2019. Dougherty coached four different UCLA receivers to top single-season marks in program history, including Phillips, Jordan Lasley, Theo Howard and Darren Andrews. UCLA's receiving corps helped establish a new school record for most passing yards in a season at 4,478 in 2017.
Prior to hit stint at UCLA, he served as an offensive analyst under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan in 2016, when the Wolverines boasted the 12th-best scoring offense in the nation at 41.0 points per game.
Dougherty spent three seasons, from 2013 to 2015, at San Jose State. During the 2013 and 2014 seasons, he served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Spartans and was promoted to assistant head coach in 2014. In 2013, he directed an offense that set 10 single-season team records and saw players establish more than 35 individual school marks.
The Spartans were ranked sixth nationally in passing offense (355.9 yards per game), 15th in total offense (493.3) and averaged 32.4 points per game that season. Dougherty worked directly with quarterback David Fales, who went on to be an NFL draft selection of the Chicago Bears, on a passing game that gained more than 4,000 yards for the second season in a row.
In 2014, he coached quarterback Joe Gray, who tied a Mountain West record for consecutive games passing of at least 300 yards. In 2015, he transitioned to coach the wide receivers. The Spartans ranked eighth in the country in completion percentage (.675), 12th nationally in third down conversion percentage (.478) and 18th in the NCAA in red zone offense (.889) in 2013, when Dougherty was nominated for the Broyles Award.
Prior to coaching at San Jose State, Dougherty coached at Washington for four years from 2009-12, serving as the wide receivers coach under Steve Sarkisian. In his last season at Washington, he added the title of passing game coordinator. Dougherty worked closely with Jermaine Kearse, who went on to become a starter on the Seahawks' Super Bowl XLVIII winning team and amassed over 3,000 yards in the NFL. During his time in Seattle, the Huskies, winless in 2008, rebounded to reach a bowl game in each of his last three seasons.
From 2004-08, Dougherty worked in a variety of assistant coach roles at San Diego under Harbaugh (2004-06) and Ron Caragher (2007-08), working with tight ends, receivers and quarterbacks in various years. In 2008, he was named the Toreros' offensive coordinator, leading the team to the No. 13 FCS ranking in passing offense and the No. 17 spot in total offense. USD won three conference titles in his five years.
A quarterback at Missouri from 1997 to 2001, Dougherty began his coaching career as a defensive backs coach at Illinois Wesleyan during the 2002 and 2003 seasons. He earned his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies from Missouri in 2002 and earned his master's degree in sport management from Illinois State in 2004.
Jimmie and his wife, Harper, have two daughters, Collins and Ellie, and a son, Maverick.
COACHING HISTORY
Washington
2024-present: Passing Game Coordinator & Quarterbacks
Arizona
2021-23: Passing Game Coordinator & Quarterbacks
UCLA
2017-20: Wide Receivers
Michigan
2016: Offensive Analyst
San Jose State
2015: Assistant Head Coach, Passing Game Coordinator & Wide Receivers
2014: Assistant Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks
2013: Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks
Washington
2009-12: Passing Game Coordinator & Wide Receivers
San Diego
2008: Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks
2007: Passing Game Coordinator & Quarterbacks
2006: Quarterbacks
2005: Tight Ends
2004: Wide Receivers
Illinois Weslyan
2002-03: Defensive Backs
In his first season at UW, Dougherty mentored Husky QBs Will Rogers and Demond Williams. Rogers finished his five-year college career with 14,773 yards, 10th most in NCAA-FBS history. Rogers also finished in the FBS top-20 in career touchdown passes, with 108. In his lone year at UW, Rogers smashed the school record for completion percentage, with a .717 mark, 32 points higher than the old mark.
Williams, a true freshman, also played in every game, and started both the season finale at No. 1 Oregon and the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. Had he met the requisite number of completions for the single-season record (Willams was 82-for-105; 100 completions are required), he'd have broken the single-season Husky records for completion percentage (.781) and pass efficiency rating (176.9).
Before returning to Seattle, Dougherty spent the previous three season on Coach Jedd Fisch's staff at Arizona, where he helped the Wildcats reach new heights, both offensively and as a team. That success was capped in 2023, when Arizona finished the season 10-3 and beat Oklahoma in the Valero Alamo Bowl.
In 2023, Dougherty coaches redshirt-freshman quarterback Noah Fifita, the FWAA Offensive Freshman of the Year and the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year. Fifita, who began the year as a the backup, but started nine games, led the 'Cats to a seven-game winning streak. For the season, he completed 241-of-333 (.724) passes for 2,869 yards, 25 touchdowns and six interceptions.
As a team, Arizona QBs completed 71.6 percent of their passes for 4,008 yards. Fifita was eighth in the nation in passing efficiency and fifth in completion percentage while the Arizona passing offense ranked No. 8 in FBS.
Arizona's offense was also eighth in third-down conversions, 14th in fourth-down conversions, 10th in red-zone offense, 10th in passing efficiency, 18th in scoring offense and 20th in total offense.
In his second season with Arizona in 2022, the Wildcats averaged 461.9 yards of total offense per game to finish 22nd nationally. Arizona passed for 318.4 yards per game, good for the 8th ranked passing attack nationally. The Wildcats development and growth on offense was historical as Jayden de Laura passed for 3,685 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2022, which ranked sixth and third respectively in program history for a season. Dougherty was nominated for the Broyles Award, which honors the nation's top assistant coach.
In 2022, Arizona's offense was one of the most improved in the nation. Arizona went from the 124th in the nation in scoring offense in Fisch and Dougherty's first season to 48th in 2022. Similarly, Arizona rose to 22nd in the NCAA in total offense in 2022 after finishing 101st the year before.
During his first season in Tucson in 2021, Dougherty navigated numerous injuries at the quarterback position to produce a passing attack that averaged nearly 215 yards per game. Wide receiver Stanley Berryhill III set career-high marks in receptions (83) and receiving yards (744) en route to earning first-team All-Pac-12.
Dougherty also played a key role in building Arizona's 2022 signing class that ranked second in the Pac-12 (22nd nationally) and included the first five-star signee in program history.
Dougherty arrived in Tucson following four seasons at UCLA as passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. The Bruins' offense finished atop the Pac-12 in total offense in 2020 and second in scoring, as a trio of UCLA offensive players earned second team all-conference honors.
Under his tutelage at UCLA, Kyle Phillips set the school record for most catches by a freshman in 2019. Dougherty coached four different UCLA receivers to top single-season marks in program history, including Phillips, Jordan Lasley, Theo Howard and Darren Andrews. UCLA's receiving corps helped establish a new school record for most passing yards in a season at 4,478 in 2017.
Prior to hit stint at UCLA, he served as an offensive analyst under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan in 2016, when the Wolverines boasted the 12th-best scoring offense in the nation at 41.0 points per game.
Dougherty spent three seasons, from 2013 to 2015, at San Jose State. During the 2013 and 2014 seasons, he served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Spartans and was promoted to assistant head coach in 2014. In 2013, he directed an offense that set 10 single-season team records and saw players establish more than 35 individual school marks.
The Spartans were ranked sixth nationally in passing offense (355.9 yards per game), 15th in total offense (493.3) and averaged 32.4 points per game that season. Dougherty worked directly with quarterback David Fales, who went on to be an NFL draft selection of the Chicago Bears, on a passing game that gained more than 4,000 yards for the second season in a row.
In 2014, he coached quarterback Joe Gray, who tied a Mountain West record for consecutive games passing of at least 300 yards. In 2015, he transitioned to coach the wide receivers. The Spartans ranked eighth in the country in completion percentage (.675), 12th nationally in third down conversion percentage (.478) and 18th in the NCAA in red zone offense (.889) in 2013, when Dougherty was nominated for the Broyles Award.
Prior to coaching at San Jose State, Dougherty coached at Washington for four years from 2009-12, serving as the wide receivers coach under Steve Sarkisian. In his last season at Washington, he added the title of passing game coordinator. Dougherty worked closely with Jermaine Kearse, who went on to become a starter on the Seahawks' Super Bowl XLVIII winning team and amassed over 3,000 yards in the NFL. During his time in Seattle, the Huskies, winless in 2008, rebounded to reach a bowl game in each of his last three seasons.
From 2004-08, Dougherty worked in a variety of assistant coach roles at San Diego under Harbaugh (2004-06) and Ron Caragher (2007-08), working with tight ends, receivers and quarterbacks in various years. In 2008, he was named the Toreros' offensive coordinator, leading the team to the No. 13 FCS ranking in passing offense and the No. 17 spot in total offense. USD won three conference titles in his five years.
A quarterback at Missouri from 1997 to 2001, Dougherty began his coaching career as a defensive backs coach at Illinois Wesleyan during the 2002 and 2003 seasons. He earned his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies from Missouri in 2002 and earned his master's degree in sport management from Illinois State in 2004.
Jimmie and his wife, Harper, have two daughters, Collins and Ellie, and a son, Maverick.
COACHING HISTORY
Washington
2024-present: Passing Game Coordinator & Quarterbacks
Arizona
2021-23: Passing Game Coordinator & Quarterbacks
UCLA
2017-20: Wide Receivers
Michigan
2016: Offensive Analyst
San Jose State
2015: Assistant Head Coach, Passing Game Coordinator & Wide Receivers
2014: Assistant Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks
2013: Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks
Washington
2009-12: Passing Game Coordinator & Wide Receivers
San Diego
2008: Offensive Coordinator & Quarterbacks
2007: Passing Game Coordinator & Quarterbacks
2006: Quarterbacks
2005: Tight Ends
2004: Wide Receivers
Illinois Weslyan
2002-03: Defensive Backs
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