Jack Crowe
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Jack Crowe In four years in the Ohio Valley Conference, Jack Crowe has turned Jacksonville State football back into a Championship program and one that is nationally competitive.
After posting Back-to-Back Ohio Valley Conference Championships, the 2005 and 2006 Gamecocks were playing for the OVC title in the regular-season finale, before coming up just short with a pair of losses to nationally ranked Eastern Illinois. Both years, the team finished with 6-5 records and JSU has posted four straight winning seasons under Crowe.
On the field, Crowe is a proven winner. He’s a skilled manager who brings to Gamecock football expertise, an eye for evaluating talent, and a personality that has energized the program.
The 2004 Gamecocks earned their second straight Ohio Valley Conference Championship with an impressive 7-1 league record and finished the regular-season with an incredible 9-1 overall record. For his efforts, Crowe was named the Roy Kidd OVC Football Coach of the Year by his peers for the 2004 season.
Jax State advanced to the post-season for the second straight season and was ranked in the NCAA I-AA football Top 25 for eight of 12 weeks last season and has rolled up some impressive offensive numbers. As a matter of fact, the Gamecocks have at least 300 yards of total offense in 23-of-24 OVC contests. The Gamecocks have 11 games with at least 400 yards of total offense and five games with more than 500 yards.
In 2003, his squad posted an impressive 7-1 league mark and claimed the Ohio Valley Conference Championship with a 22-17 win over Southeast Missouri State on Nov. 22nd and helped the Gamecocks to its first-ever Division I-AA play-off berth.
Beginning his eighth season guiding Jax State, Crowe was hired as the 11th head football coach in the modern day era on Nov. 22, 1999, and he has helped return the Gamecock football tradition.
Jax State has posted a 25-7 record during their four-year run in the Ohio Valley Conference and the Gamecocks are the winningest team in the league during that span.
A native of Birmingham, Crowe has coached over 30 years at some of the top programs in the country. During his career, he has worked at Auburn, Baylor, Arkansas, Clemson and Wyoming on the Division I level and also has college coaching stints at North Alabama and Livingston (now West Alabama).
Crowe was named the head coach at Arkansas in January of 1990 after serving one year as offensive coordinator. He coached the Razorbacks to the 1991 Independence Bowl as head coach and the 1990 Cotton Bowl as an assistant, posting a 19-14 record. He was abruptly fired the day after he coached in a loss versus The Citadel. He was offensive coordinator at Baylor from 1993 to 1995 and led the Bears to the 1994 conference championship.
He spent three years as the offensive coordinator at Clemson, where the Tigers posted a 29-6-1 record and won three straight Atlantic Coast Conference Championships. His offense led the ACC in rushing in each of his three seasons. Under his guidance, Clemson played twice in the Florida-Citrus Bowl and once in the Gator Bowl.
Crowe spent four seasons as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Auburn before moving to Clemson. The Tigers led the SEC twice in total offense and three times in rushing. Auburn played in the Florida-Citrus, Sugar, Liberty and Cotton Bowl games and Bo Jackson became a Heisman Trophy winner under Crowe’s tutelage.
Crowe spent the 1981 season at Wyoming, where the Cowboys finished 8-3. From 1978-80, he was the offensive coordinator at North Alabama. The Lions went 17-7 and won the 1980 Gulf South Conference title. He served as offensive coordinator at Livingston for three seasons (1974-76) before being elevated to head coach at age 28.
Crowe got his start in coaching without playing college football. He played football and baseball at West End High School in Birmingham, then went to Jefferson State Junior College, where he stuck to baseball.
He transferred to UAB and, after graduating with a degree in chemistry, became an assistant at West End. A year later, he became offensive coordinator at Oxford High School, where the Yellow Jackets posted a 21-1-1 record and two conference titles.
THE JACK CROWE FILE
2000-06 Jacksonville State University Head Football Coach Record: 43-34 – 2003, 2004 OVC Champs 1993-95 Baylor University Offensive Coordinator Record: 19-14 – 1994 SWC Champs 1989-92 University of Arkansas Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator Record: 19-14 – 1989 SWC Champs 1986-88 Clemson University Offensive Coordinator Record: 29-6-1 – 1986, ’87, ’88 ACC Champs 1982-85 Auburn University Offensive Coordinator Record: 37-12 – 1983 SEC Champs 1980-81 University of Wyoming Offensive Coordinator Record: 8-3 1978-80 University of North Alabama Offensive Coordinator Record: 17-7 – 1980 GSC, NCAA Mideast Champs 1973-78 Livingston University Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator Record: 35-31 – 1975 NCAA Mideast Champs 1970-72 Oxford High School Offensive Coordinator Record: 21-1-1 – 1971, ’72 Conference Champs
Crowe’s Year-by-Year Record
2006 Jacksonville State 6-5 2005 Jacksonville State 6-5 2004 Jacksonville State 9-2 2003 Jacksonville State 8-4 2002 Jacksonville State 5-6 2001 Jacksonville State 5-6 2000 Jacksonville State 4-6 1992 Arkansas 0-1 1991 Arkansas 6-6 1990 Arkansas 3-8 1978 Livingston 3-7 1977 Livingston 2-8
TOTAL 57-64
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| Preceded by Ken Hatfield |
University of Arkansas Head Football Coach 1990–1992 |
Succeeded by Joe Kines (interim) |
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