Monday Morning Football Punts

Former Washington Redskins player Rod Milstead coaches football to 9- to 12-year
-olds at the Charles County (Md.) Sheriff’s Office summer camp held at North Point
High School in June 2013. The youths also attended class to discuss gang prevention
and bullying.
(Photo Courtesy TIN NGUYEN)

• Former Alabama A&M head football coach Anthony Jones has officially been named offensive coordinator at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff after spending nearly a month on a temporary basis at that position.  Jones was a teammate of UAPB head coach Monte Coleman on the 1987 Washington Redskins team that won the Super Bowl, but this is the first time the two will work together as coaches.  Former UAPB graduate assistant Byron Anderson has returned as the linebackers coach. Anderson coached the secondary at Division II Missouri Southern the past two seasons.  Anderson played at Grambling State from 1998-2002 and coached on the defensive line in his previous assignment with UAPB.  Jones replaces Eric Dooley, who moved to Broderick Fobbs’ staff at Grambling State as offensive coordinator.
• Former North Carolina Central University offensive line coach Rod Milstead has accepted an offer to coach the offensive line at Delaware State.  Milstead is a 1991 Delaware State graduate and played eight seasons in the NFL as a guard with the San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins.  Milstead was a part of the 49ers team that defeated the San Diego Chargers to win Super Bowl XXIX.   Rod was drafted in the fifth round (pick 151) of the 1992 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. The former Henry E. Lackey High School (Indian Head, Maryland) graduate, led the Chargers to two state championship appearances at Raven Stadium as an assistant coach with the program. As a star player (1983-86), he helped lead the Chargers to a Class B state championship victory in 1986; was named first team All-State and participated in the Big 33 Football Classic All-Star game between Maryland and Pennsylvania all-stars (1986). While at Delaware State, Milstead was a part of four MEAC conference championships in five years (1987-91). He started every game of his collegiate career and was a key standout for the Hornets attack on the offensive line, receiving All-MEAC conference honors for three years.  In May of 1991, Milstead graduated with a degree in criminal justice and sociology. 
• Alabama A&M has a football date with UAB on Sept. 13, 2014.
• Southern Miss hosts Alcorn State on Sept. 6, 2014 in its football home opener.
• Savannah State Tigers open the 2014 season at C-USA's Middle Tennessee State University on August 30.  On Sept. 8,  the Tigers are on the road with transitioning FBS Georgia Southern, and closes out the season at Brigham Young. 
• Former Tennessee State assistant coach Orlando Mitjans, Jr., a finalist for the head coaching gig at Winston-Salem State last month, has been named a defensive assistant coach at Army.
• Illinois State football will open its season at home on Sept. 6, vs. Mississippi Valley State.
• Former Savannah State head coach Steve Davenport has been named head coach at Woodland High School (Georgia).
• The 2013 SWAC Champions Southern Jaguars with open the 2014 season at Louisiana-Lafayette on August 30th.  The Jags will host Northwestern State in their home opener on Sept. 13 in the first of six scheduled home games of their 12 game season.
• Southern University men's basketball team has clinched the 2014 regular season title. Although the Jags are seeded #1 for the March 11-15 SWAC Tournament in Houston, the Jags are facing an NCAA postseason ban due to inadequate reporting of data relating to student-athletes’ Academic Progress Rates (APR) for 2007. Other league schools facing an NCAA postseason ban due to APR are Grambling, Mississippi Valley State and Arkansas-Pine Bluff.  All will participate in the SWAC Basketball Tournament next week.