Kellenberger: JSU's firing of Jackson was inevitable

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Harold Jackson is out as Jackson State's football coach, which just seems like the most obvious, inevitable thing ever, does it not?

This is not a slight to Jackson, who is by all accounts a very nice guy. He was offered a job in 2014 and took it. People get offered jobs they're not qualified for all the time. That's not their fault, even if in Jackson's case what followed was a 6-11 total record (and 1-4 this season). What else was going to happen when you hire a career assistant that had not coached in college since 2006 and who had spent two years in between then and Jackson State coaching minor league football?

Jackson was 68 and a first-time head coach that most recently had been living in Los Angeles. You pick that guy to replace Rick Comegy, who had taken JSU to two-straight SWAC championship games, and you get what you get.

The timing surprises me, because ...

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