Jay Hopson
Jay Hopson (born October 13, 1968) is the current head football coach at University of Southern Mississippi.[1] Previously, he was head coach at Alcorn State University[2] and an assistant coach at Tulane, Delta State, LSU, Florida, Marshall, Southern Miss, Ole Miss, Michigan, and Memphis.[3] Notably, Hopson is the first white head football coach in the history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, an organization made up entirely of historically black colleges and universities.[2]
Hopson played college football at the University of Mississippi. He earned four letters as a defensive back at Ole Miss from 1988–91, playing free safety for one season before moving to strong safety for his final three years. He was a four-time Academic All-SEC honor roll selection and was named to the Verizon District VI Academic All-America team as a senior in 1991.[4]
Head coaching record
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- O. A. Ross (1922–1933)
- W. Morton (1934–1935)
- A. A. Abraham (1936)
- L. Harris (1937)
- A. A. Abraham (1938)
- L. Harris (1939–1940)
- A. A. Abraham (1941–1942)
- No team (1943–1944)
- Anderson (1945)
- Reuben Alba (1946)
- W. Felix Harris (1947)
- Dwight Fisher (1948–1956)
- W. Broadus (1947)
- E. E. Simmons (1958–1959)
- Franklin Purnell (1960–1963)
- Marino Casem (1964–1985)
- Theophilus Danzy (1986–1990)
- Cardell Jones (1991–1997)
- Johnny Thomas (1998–2007)
- Ernest T. Jones (2008)
- Earnest Collins, Jr. (2009–2010)
- Melvin Spears (2011)
- Jay Hopson (2012–2015)
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