 After taking the 2006 season off, Tisdel returned to coaching his Sierra College team which ended the 2007 season ranked fifth in the nation by JCGridiron.com.Tisdel has experienced his greatest successes at the junior college level, especially at Sierra College, where he brought a relative no-name program to national prominence at its level of competition by collecting three conference championships and, in his first year there, brought Sierra College to second place in the Bay Valley Conference.He also had notable success in his first head coaching position at Sacramento City College, where his teams won three Northern California Athletic League championships and where some players on his old teams still remain in the record books.