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During Jackson State’s annual spring football game Saturday, head coach T.C. Taylor called the offensive plays as the Blue team defeated the White team 23-9 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium.
It was a duty made necessary by offseason changes in the coaching staff. Co-offensive coordinators Maurice Harris and Jason Onyebuagu, who called the plays in 2023 when the Tigers led the Southwestern Athletic Conference in total offense, left for other jobs. So did quarterbacks coach Quinn Billerman.
According to the Jackson State football website, no coach has offensive coordinator listed among his duties. At the postgame news conference Saturday, Taylor would not commit to becoming the offensive coordinator for the 2024 season.
“We’ll see,” Taylor said. “We still have a lot of time. We won’t have a game until August. We will continue to grow this football team, but I did handle it today. I will continue to evaluate it and see how I feel about it going forward. And I will make that decision.”
There are more than four months until the Tigers’ opener Aug. 29 at UL Monroe, but no more practices until about four weeks before that game. If Taylor hands off the offensive coordinator role to a current assistant or fills that job from outside the program, he is trusting that coach to implement a new system or, more likely, to master the one in place in those four weeks. Given all that entails — from learning the system to imparting it to the assistants and offensive players to making play calls under the heat of a game — it’s a daunting hurdle.
DEFENSE DOMINATE BLUE AND WHITE GAME Defense dominates during Jackson State football Blue and White spring game
It may make more sense for Taylor to handle the offensive coordinator duties. He served six seasons as an offensive coordinator at Coahoma County Community College…
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Author : The Clarion Ledger
Publish date : 2024-04-09 14:19:30
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