JACKSON, Mississippi -- What are you going to do when Alcorn State has passed you on the field, and lapped you in recruiting? If you’re Jackson State, you go and get some of what those guys have.Which is why Jackson State’s hire of Tony Hughes as its new football coach is so impressive. Unlike Harold Jackson, the first and only notable line on the resume is not, “Played at Jackson State.” Hughes has family that went to JSU and said he’s attended plenty of Jackson State-Alcorn State games in the past, but make no mistake about it: he’s not a SWAC man. He is, however, a good football coach and a hell of a recruiter, and shouldn’t that be the only two things that really truly matter?
Just look at what Alcorn did hiring Jay Hopson after two decades spent in major college football, or Grambling and Broderick Fobbs. They were hires made outside of SWAC circles, and both have paid off with SWAC Championship Game appearances this season.
“Those guys didn’t have any HBCU experience when they took over their programs and they’ve taken the conference by storm,” Jackson State athletic director Wheeler Brown said.
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