South Alabama Head Coach Joey JonesUniversity of South Alabama Coach Joey Jones is no stranger to rekindling programs or starting them from scratch. The former Alabama WR was the head coach for a decade at Mountain Brook High School (AL) where he went 101-27. He inherited a program that had nine consecutive losing seasons and took them to the state championship game in his first year as coach. In the 10-year period in which Jones was head coach (1996-2005), Mountain Brook won four region titles, played in two state semifinal games and had three quarterfinal appearances.Jones was then selected to begin a football program at Birmingham Southern University for the inaugural 2007 season. Jones was the first coach of the Panthers since 1939, when the football program was disbanded. There for only one season, Birmingham Southern finished 3-7 as a Division III program. That same year, the
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