Jason Grooms is in his 3rd year as director of football operations at the Ohio University. He is Ohio's first ever director of football operations.

A native of nearby Frankfort, Ohio, Grooms is truly the Bobcat's' master of multi-tasking. He coordinates and oversees travel accommodations, youth summer camps, the annual coaches clinic, preseason camp arrangements, scheduling and all day-to-day administration for the Ohio football team. Grooms also serves as the football program's liaison to numerous campus offices and within the athletic department. He also coordinated this past year's MAC Championship game and GMAC Bowl travel and trip details.

Grooms also helped oversee and plan the Bobcat's renovation of their team meeting rooms in 2005 and the renovation of the coach's offices and staff rooms in 2006.

Grooms' career in athletics began at Ohio, where he served as a student assistant while an undergraduate from 97-01. Prior to his 2005 Ohio appointment he served one season at Elon University as their recruiting coordinator and outside linebackers coach during the 2004 season. He coach Calvin Sutton, a Southern Conference standout, who accumulated 20 tackles for loss and was All-SoCon and All-South Region.

Before Elon, Grooms spent the 2003 season at East Tennessee State University, the program's final year of football, at the video coordinator and the outside linebackers coach. He coach standout Matt Palmer to a league leading 25.5 tackles for loss, a school record.

Grooms graduated from Ohio in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in sports sciences. He went to Wake Forest, with former Coach Jim Grobe, where he served as graduate assistant during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. In 2002, Wake Forest defeated Oregon in the Seattle Bowl.

As a player, Grooms was a wide receiver and played baseball for four seasons (1993-96) at Adena High School in Frankfort, Ohio. He lettered three times in each sport. His senior season, he served as a team captain and earned the United States Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award.

Grooms and his wife, Emily, a fellow Adena and Ohio graduate, have two sons, Jackson (3) and Hayden born in April 2007.