Kennesaw State hires NFL assistant Jerry Mack as head football coach
Jerry Mack, the Jaguars’ running backs coach for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, has been named Kennesaw State’s head football coach.
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Jerry Mack, who is the running backs coach for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars has been named Kennesaw State University’s new head football coach.
The new Kennesaw State University head football coach is Jerry Mack who was previously the running backs coach of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. The 44-year-old Mack replaces Brian Bohannon, who was the only coach in the program since its inception before Bohannon was fired with three games remaining in the season. Interim coach was Chandler Burks, who led the team through the final 2-10 season, which included a 2-6 record in the first year of membership in Conference USA.
"I would like to thank everyone for this opportunity and I am proud to be able to be the leader of this team," Mack said in a statement released by Kennesaw State. "I am ready to help our young men continue the success of our program, to graduate, to win titles, and to become good members of society, for our whole KSU family.
Mack is going back to the college level, he was a running backs coach at Tennessee for three seasons.
His only previous experience as head coach was at the FCS level at North Carolina Central University between 2014 and 2017. He compiled a record of 31-15 and led the team to three Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles.
"He has 20 years of coaching experience at all levels, he has been able to prove that he has the ability to build a relationship with players, and he has a very aggressive recruiting approach," Kennesaw State athletic director Milton Overton said. "Mack has the experience of coordinating up-tempo and high-scoring offenses,"
Bohannon was instrumental in the establishment of Kennesaw State University which began its operation in 2015 and appeared in the FCS playoffs in the first four years of its existence. But the transition to FBS proved to be a stiffer test and the Owls struggled to a 10-22 record over the last three seasons.
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