Ben Jobe (born March 1, 1933) is an American former men's basketball coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Southern University Jaguars - a position he held for 12 years. He has also been head coach of the men's college basketball teams at Tuskegee University, Talladega College, Alabama State University, South Carolina State University, University of Denver and Alabama A&M University. Jobe has also served as assistant coach at the University of South Carolina, Georgia Tech, and briefly served as an assistant with the NBA's Denver Nuggets.[1]
Early career
Ben Jobe was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Pearl High School in Nashville where he was a successful basketball player. In 1950, Jobe earned all-district and all-state honors and was then named to the 1951 all-national high school team.
Jobe then enrolled at Fisk University, earning All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors during his junior and senior seasons. He earned a bachelor's degree from Fisk in 1956 and later went on to earn a master's degree from Tennessee State University. In 1958, Jobe began his coaching career at Cameron High School in Nashville, Tennessee. His first (and only) Cameron team won 24 games, a school record. After the season was over, Jobe decided to move to Sierra Leone, West Africa to coach a junior college basketball team. Jobe's coaching had a quick effect: his teams posted back-to-back undefeated seasons.[2]
Jobe returned to the United States and began coaching at Talladega College in Alabama, a position which he held for three years.
Coach of Southern University Jaguars
Ben Jobe took the helm of the Southern University Jaguars in 1986. He stayed on until 1996. He returned again to Southern in 2001 for two more seasons, retiring completely from college basketball in 2003. In 12 years at Southern, Jobe compiled a 209-141 record, led the Jaguars to the NCAA tournament four times, went to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) once, won five Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships, won 11 Southwestern Athletic Conference Championships.
Perhaps his most memorable moment as a college basketball coach was the Jaguars' 93-78 win over the then ACC Champions, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, during the first round of the 1993 NCAA Tournament in Tucson, Arizona.
Jobe coached former San Antonio Spurs star guard (former coach of the Brooklyn Nets and Dallas Mavericks) Avery Johnson and late Charlotte Hornets player Bobby Phills.
Upon his retirement from Southern in 2003, Jobe had accumulated 524 wins as a head coach in college basketball spread among 8 teams over 31 seasons (a 0.611 win percentage).
Personal life
He and his wife Regina currently live in Montgomery, Alabama. They have two adult children, Bryan and Gina.[3]
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- C. J. Dunn (1934β1935)
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- C. J. Dunn (1945β1959)
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- C. J. Dunn (1960β1963)
- Lucias Mitchell (1963β1967)
- Ben Jobe (1967β1968)
- Willie Parker (1968β1969)
- Bernard Boozer (1969β1973)
- Floyd Laisure (1973β1977)
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- James Oliver (1978β1995)
- John L. Williams (1995β1996)
- Rob Spivery (1996β2005)
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- Ed Martin (1955β1968)
- Ben Jobe (1968β1973)
- Tim Autrey (1973β1980)
- Johnny Jones (1980β1983)
- Chico Caldwell (1983β1987)
- Cy Alexander (1987β2003)
- Ben Betts (2003β2006)
- Jamal Brown (2006β2007)
- Tim Carter (2007β2013)
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- Charles Wingender (1910β1911)
- Clem Crowley (1911β1912)
- Hiram Wilson (1912β1914)
- Charles Wingender (1914β1916)
- John Fike (1916β1918)
- Charles Wingender (1918β1919)
- George Koonsman (1919β1920)
- Thomas Thompson (1920β1921)
- Ralph Woods (1921β1923)
- Aubrey Devine (1923β1925)
- Jimmy Middlebrook (1925β1926)
- Burt Potter (1926β1930)
- Stuart Clark (1930β1932)
- Clyde Hubbard (1932β1940)
- Ellison Ketchum (1940β1943)
- Mark Duncan # (1943)
- Art Quinlan (1943β1944)
- Cliff Rock (1944β1945)
- Ken Loeffler (1945β1946)
- Ellison Ketchum (1946β1948)
- Hoyt Brawner (1948β1962)
- Troy Bledsoe (1962β1968)
- Stan Albeck (1968β1970)
- Jim Karabetsos (1970β1972)
- Al Harden (1972β1977)
- Bill Weimar (1977β1978)
- Ben Jobe (1978β1980)
- Floyd Theard (1980β1985)
- Dick Peth (1985β1997)
- Marty Fletcher (1997β2001)
- Terry Carroll (2001β2007)
- Joe Scott (2007β )
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- Dwight Fisher (1937β1939)
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- Frank Lewis (1955β1960)
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- Frank Lewis (1961β1963)
- No team (1963β1968)
- Duane Gordon (1968β1972)
- Clarence Blackmon (1972β1981)
- Ben Jobe (1981β1986)
- L. Vann Pettaway (1986β2011)
- Willie Hayes (2011β )
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- Wilson S. Lovett (1908β1909)
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- Unknown (1925β1926)
- Ross Owen (1926β1933)
- Cleveland Abbott (1933β1936)
- Edward Adams (1936β1949)
- Ross Owen (1949β1964)
- Oscar Catlin (1964β1973)
- Henry Ford (1973β1975)
- Charles Thompson (1975β1988)
- Alfred Barney (1988β1992)
- Lonnie Williams (1992β1996)
- Ben Jobe (1996β2000)
- Oliver Jones (2000β2004)
- Ondray Wagner (2004β2006)
- Leon Douglas (2006β2014)
- Jerry Dunn (2014βpresent)
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