Hue Jackson out at Grambling State
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GRAMBLING – The G-Men will turn to a new leader for the 2024 football season.
Hue Jackson, the Tigers’ head coach for the last two seasons, and Grambling State have parted ways on Tuesday after a 5-6 finish in 2023, a team source confirmed to the Leader. Footballscoop.com was first to report the news.
Jackson was hired on Dec. 10, 2021, to replace three-time SWAC Coach of the Year Broderick Fobbs, but in his tenure, Jackson led the G-Men to an 8-14 overall record and 6-10 mark in SWAC play.
He leaves Grambling with no SWAC titles, SWAC title game appearances, or Bayou Classic wins, as well as suffering the program’s first homecoming loss since 2006.
Grambling State will look for someone to right the program’s current trajectory, which suffered its third-straight losing season for the first time since the 1996, 1997, and 1998 seasons.
After losing 27-22 to Southern in the 50th annual Bayou Classic on Saturday, giving the Jaguars a 26-24 lead in the all-time series, Jackson was asked if he believes in the direction of the GSU program at his postgame presser.
“Where do I think the program’s going? Oh, I think we’re getting better. I don’t think we’re going backwards,” Jackson said. “This is a huge rivalry. You want to win the rivalry game but I’m not going to make the decision this program is going backwards on this game. We need to play better. There’s five other opportunities that we lost and I think we could have played better. We’re still young. We’ve got some seniors that are going to be leaving that are good football players but we’re building, we’re building something. It doesn’t happen overnight, contrary to what people believe. It takes a little time and it takes some seasoning and some guys to really start to understand this hurts and it’s things like this where guys will grow the fastest because that’s painful and that’s a painful loss. And so, they gotta grow from it.”
In two seasons under Jackson, the Tigers led the FCS in penalties, including 107 infractions this fall after 111 in 2022.
In the Tigers’ 10 SWAC losses under Jackson, they lost by an average of 13.6 points as well.
