Personal Life
Sloan married his high-school sweetheart, Bobbye Sloan. After a well-publicized six-year battle against breast cancer, she died of pancreatic cancer in 2004. They had three children and were married 41 years. One of his sons, Brian, also played basketball for McLeansboro High School and was a member of its undefeated 1984 state championship team, and also played five seasons under Coach Bob Knight at Indiana University, collecting an NCAA title in 1987.
In 2006 Jerry Sloan married Tammy Jessop, in Salt Lake City. Sloan has a stepson, Rhett as a result of this marriage.
Sloan is known to wear John Deere hats and to collect and restore tractors as a hobby. After amassing a collection of tractors that numbered 70, Sloan decided to sell all but two of them after a 35-year old Allis-Chalmers tractor was stolen. After years of a self-confessed habit of drinking and smoking too much, he has since stopped both, although he has claimed that it never affected him or his coaching.
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