Jackson State's Comegy is shopping for a new job

TALLAHASSEE, Florida  --  Less than one month after leading Jackson State to the SWAC championship game, football coach Rick Comegy is shopping for a new job.

According to The Tallahassee Democrat, Comegy applied for the coaching vacancy at Florida A&M, an opening FAMU athletic director Derek Horne says he wants to fill by Jan. 12.

Comegy, who has coached JSU for seven seasons, recently expressed his desire to remain with the school — even though he appears set to enter the 2013 season with just one year left on his contract.
“I’d love to be here,” Comegy said earlier this month. “I haven’t had any talks about an extension or anything like that. I think that’s up to the president and the (athletic director) and what they want to do with Rick Comegy.”

Comegy received a two-year contract extension in 2011, with a 3 percent raise to $191,580 per year. He has a $50,000 buyout clause.

Comegy’s contract also called for improvement in the football team’s Academic Progress Rate score, a sore subject for a program that had scored below the then NCAA-mandated benchmark of 900 for three straight years. Low scores led to JSU receiving a postseason ban in 2011 and a second ban was imminent until the NCAA approved a rule change allowing low-resource schools a longer window to meet the 930 mark.

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