Jackson State fires John Hendrick


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dieharddawg said:
Lol, that man got fired on his day off and they didn't even have a season!
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They have been treating our people worse than ma'am Karen! As much as it pains me to say it, we might need to start a petition to defund Jsu athletic department. His day off huh (smdh). We might need to get Mighty Dog and his senior citizens brigade to make some signs and march on Lynch Street! LOL We are fed up with marginalizing our "folk" and ain't taking this anymore! LOL
 
JROCK said:
They have been treating our people worse than ma'am Karen! As much as it pains me to say it, we might need to start a petition to defund Jsu athletic department. His day off huh (smdh). We might need to get Mighty Dog and his senior citizens brigade to make some signs and march on Lynch Street! LOL We are fed up with marginalizing our "folk" and ain't taking this anymore! LOL
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Man, good luck with attendance. You can depend on your creole crow’s foot totin’ jaguars but those mudpuppies that’s thumbing you up will be too busy having BIG FUN in Huntsville. They won’t show up for sh*t! LOL
 
Bewildered said:
Dang JState. Hendricks was 2-0 vs some pretty good PV squads.

Those young men played w/ great passion for the staff, except the musical chair QBs and OL. All other positions were solid, if memory serves correct.
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Bruh, I wish we could have played Per..Pee. Prairie View every week.
 
Oracle said:
Please explain....Only last season Hendrick was touted as the one to revive JSU football. Even had me believing, seeing some of the transfers he recruited. Tell us what went wrong....I advised against firing Robert Hughes..
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No coach worth a damn at JSU loses to AAMU
 
ASU2002 said:
So JSU motto is to fire a coach to get a better one. Wishing them the best but if they fired Hendricks just to get Sanders, it will be a continual cycle of turnovers. Karma is real. Plus they firing a head coach with a interim president.
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But we got a stable AD. That matters. Get one...
 

Well, I hope JSU go out and really do a search for a Head Football Coach instead of reaching back and hiring leftovers that we all can see is not working in JSU favor. Hire a real Coach and stop getting all these throwbacks.
 
I want Jackson St. to hire a good coach as well. I do think coach turnover is not looking good for them. They has been thru 4 coaches in 10 years. They need to give whoever they hire the time they need and the fanbase is going to have to be patient with him. We need every team in the SWAC getting better.
 
tierre said:
I want Jackson St. to hire a good coach as well. I do think coach turnover is not looking good for them. They has been thru 4 coaches in 10 years. They need to give whoever they hire the time they need and the fanbase is going to have to be patient with him. We need every team in the SWAC getting better.
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Really 3 coaches all of whom were hired or affiliated with the Carolyn Meyers Presidency. In 2013 the alumni was shocked to see Rick Comegy fired. Most of us did not want that. But lets talk about it lets start with hire one Harold Jackson (2014) hired under AD Vivian Fuller. Harold Jackson never had the track record of a winning coach and was hired based on relationships and the fact that he was a former JSU alum NFL player who gained most of his stardom in the 1970's. One of the promises and mistakes that Harold Jackson did was try to recruit Mississippi ONLY first. The problem with that was, he didn't have the connections nor the relationships to recruit the type of talent JSU needed to win games let alone a SWAC Championship. The theory was to get as many athletes who were from Mississipppi (Jackson in particular) to come to JSU. That would also help us in season ticket holders. One of the reasons they claim Rick Comegy was fired was because he didn't recruit as much locally as he should have. The problem with this is that if a student athlete does not want to come to JSU and you have not established a strong relationship with the local coaches to get them to come to JSU, then you have to recruit elsewhere and by the time Harold Jackson discovered that it was too late. People clown him because of his age but that wasn't the main reason for his shortcomings. Coupled with the fact that some of Comegy's key players had lead us to the SWAC championship in 2013 had just graduated.

Then we move on to Tony Hughes (2015) the recruiting "magnate" for Mississippi State hired under AD Wheeler Brown. Tony Hughes was another mistake given the fact that he had NEVER been a head coach and most of his specialty was in recruiting. Tony Hughes was so valued at MSU that Dan Mullens did not want him to leave but supported his choice. The theory was with Tony Hughes to use his recruiting power to bring some of that Mississippi talent to JSU. Now to his credit he did bring some talent to JSU but still not the type of talent nor staff to get JSU out of a loosing slump. Him being a good recruiter for Mississippi State is a lot different and and easier sell than being a head coach or recruiter for JSU or any other HBCU for that matter. Its a lot easier to sell a student a promising package to play for a school like Mississippi State that has all of the things required to set them up for success than it is JSU. That Mississippi State type talent never came to JSU and was not going to come and everyone saw that. Tony Hughes was also rubbing the fans the wrong way with his angry responses and antics to fans who questioned his coaching skills during press conferences. He also made a terrible TERRIBLE hire with Hal Mumme who tried to implement his "Air Raid" fiasco with our offense that was nowhere NEAR able to execute it. Hale saw the writing on the wall and quit. And after the 2018 loss to Southern that was the end for the Tony Hughes era.

Then we move on to his successor John Hendricks. Coach Hendricks basically FELL into the head coaching position. I even think it caught him by surprise. When he took over for the rest of the 2018 season things took a drastic turn for us and we ended up winning the rest of the games ending with a loss to Alcorn. We really thought we had turned a corner and things were about to take shape except one thing had changed we had a NEW AD Ashley Robinson. Now it was up to him to correct things or not rock the boat during his first year as AD. My theory is that Ashley wanted to cut down on the negative press for JSU for the time being so he named John Hendricks the head coach for the 2019 season. You have to remember JSU had been in the press for a number of thing from the firing of Vivian Fuller, the resignation of Carolyn Meyers and the financial trouble JSU was in. We didnt need ANYMORE negative press plus that would give some stability to guys on the team. After the 2019 season when it looked like more of the same it was time to make a change.

Now here we are anticipating a new coach under a totally new Jackson State administration and Athletic director. Whether this will be a New Day for JSU time will tell but what I know for sure is that the people at the top who were responsible for the mis-management of JSU football for the past 7 years are now G-O-N-E!!
 
Good synopsis @JSUTiger10 (sounds like a Tyler Perry movie....LOL). You know, MVSU has been in a slump for a very long time. Maybe it's their turn to win and Jsu's turn to take a back seat (just thinking out loud...LOL). Anywho, good luck with the coaching change as the good people of Jsu, with their great home fan base, deserves a little more than what they're getting.
 
JSUTiger10 said:
Really 3 coaches all of whom were hired or affiliated with the Carolyn Meyers Presidency. In 2013 the alumni was shocked to see Rick Comegy fired. Most of us did not want that. But lets talk about it lets start with hire one Harold Jackson (2014) hired under AD Vivian Fuller. Harold Jackson never had the track record of a winning coach and was hired based on relationships and the fact that he was a former JSU alum NFL player who gained most of his stardom in the 1970's. One of the promises and mistakes that Harold Jackson did was try to recruit Mississippi ONLY first. The problem with that was, he didn't have the connections nor the relationships to recruit the type of talent JSU needed to win games let alone a SWAC Championship. The theory was to get as many athletes who were from Mississipppi (Jackson in particular) to come to JSU. That would also help us in season ticket holders. One of the reasons they claim Rick Comegy was fired was because he didn't recruit as much locally as he should have. The problem with this is that if a student athlete does not want to come to JSU and you have not established a strong relationship with the local coaches to get them to come to JSU, then you have to recruit elsewhere and by the time Harold Jackson discovered that it was too late. People clown him because of his age but that wasn't the main reason for his shortcomings. Coupled with the fact that some of Comegy's key players had lead us to the SWAC championship in 2013 had just graduated.

Then we move on to Tony Hughes (2015) the recruiting "magnate" for Mississippi State hired under AD Wheeler Brown. Tony Hughes was another mistake given the fact that he had NEVER been a head coach and most of his specialty was in recruiting. Tony Hughes was so valued at MSU that Dan Mullens did not want him to leave but supported his choice. The theory was with Tony Hughes to use his recruiting power to bring some of that Mississippi talent to JSU. Now to his credit he did bring some talent to JSU but still not the type of talent nor staff to get JSU out of a loosing slump. Him being a good recruiter for Mississippi State is a lot different and and easier sell than being a head coach or recruiter for JSU or any other HBCU for that matter. Its a lot easier to sell a student a promising package to play for a school like Mississippi State that has all of the things required to set them up for success than it is JSU. That Mississippi State type talent never came to JSU and was not going to come and everyone saw that. Tony Hughes was also rubbing the fans the wrong way with his angry responses and antics to fans who questioned his coaching skills during press conferences. He also made a terrible TERRIBLE hire with Hal Mumme who tried to implement his "Air Raid" fiasco with our offense that was nowhere NEAR able to execute it. Hale saw the writing on the wall and quit. And after the 2018 loss to Southern that was the end for the Tony Hughes era.

Then we move on to his successor John Hendricks. Coach Hendricks basically FELL into the head coaching position. I even think it caught him by surprise. When he took over for the rest of the 2018 season things took a drastic turn for us and we ended up winning the rest of the games ending with a loss to Alcorn. We really thought we had turned a corner and things were about to take shape except one thing had changed we had a NEW AD Ashley Robinson. Now it was up to him to correct things or not rock the boat during his first year as AD. My theory is that Ashley wanted to cut down on the negative press for JSU for the time being so he named John Hendricks the head coach for the 2019 season. You have to remember JSU had been in the press for a number of thing from the firing of Vivian Fuller, the resignation of Carolyn Meyers and the financial trouble JSU was in. We didnt need ANYMORE negative press plus that would give some stability to guys on the team. After the 2019 season when it looked like more of the same it was time to make a change.

Now here we are anticipating a new coach under a totally new Jackson State administration and Athletic director. Whether this will be a New Day for JSU time will tell but what I know for sure is that the people at the top who were responsible for the mis-management of JSU football for the past 7 years are now G-O-N-E!!
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Recruiting for Mississippi state means 💰. Recruiting at most FCS schools and not just HBCU’S mean actually forming that relationship with high school coaches and parents that you spoke of with Harold Jackson. Hughes could only recruit with the big findings of money behide him. That was a dumb move on jsu behalf to even hire him. A life long Recruiter/safeties coach. Worst hire next to James bell. Dude couldn’t coach a lick. Walked around like jsu owed him something. IMO, he never gave much respect to the SWAC memeber institutions period. Didn’t even want to shake hands with Spady after the jsu Vs A&M game. Said he had to ask his WIFE was he wrong to not want to shake hands. Man please. Other schools were/are winning and they didn’t do all that Hughes claimed you had to do which were his excuses for not winning. He said GRAMBLING only was winning because of transfers. EXCUSES, excuses, excuses. One of his first thing was that jsu needed an indoor practice facility. Hell, learn to practice outside first. Worst coach ever. My lord. What a disaster. Coach Hendrick did a better job actually getting guys that could be coached up compared to hughes.
 
atl hornet said:
Lmao

yall are honestly an afterthought. The rest of the East’s attention has been on Alcorn. NOBODY has been worrying about Jackson State
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You have to be careful of the statement you make because it just might come bck to hunt you. Honestly speaking of afterthought, jsu definently gets more interest from losing than y’all and y’all losing to. So is there a such thing as after after thought as in 3rd.
 
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