The Mississippi State Bulldogs have hired Joey Jones as the program's new special teams coordinator. This is clearly the school taking the "if you can't beat'em, hire'em" approach.
For those not familiar with Joey Jones, he was once the head football coach of South Alabama. In 2016, he led his ragtag group of directional-school heroes to Starkville, upsetting the Bulldogs in the season-opener.
Joey Jones: Legend.
For the sake of properly giving credit:
Steve Robertson of 247Sports was the first to report that Jones has been hired by Joe Moorhead. Roberston's information has since been confirmed by Will Sammon of the Clarion-Ledger.
Mississippi State has hired former South Alabama head football coach Joey Jones to fill the special teams coordinator position.
— Steve Robertson (@ScoutSteveR) February 22, 2018
In six years manning the helm at South Alabama, Jones went 29-46.
The rest of his coaching experience isn't exactly going to blow you away, but he has been around a bit. Jones has other head coaching experience at Birmingham-Southern (a real place). Also, he did work coaching high school at Mountain Brook (Ala.) High and Dora (Ala.) High.
Since it is nearly March, most programs are filling out the ends of their staffs. Don't expect too much more movement within any individual program's staff, unless it is for positions with minimal impact.
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