South Dakota State football announces hiring of special teams coordinator Isaiah Jackson

South Dakota State has filled its final coordinator role after hiring Isaiah Jackson to lead the special teams units, head coach Dan Jackson announced Saturday.

Isaiah Jackson’s hiring will mark a return to Brookings, who lettered at linebacker for the Jackrabbits from 2006-09. He ranked fifth on the team with 63 tackles in 2008 and tied for seventh with 52 stops as a senior in 2009, when the Jackrabbits made their first-ever appearance in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

“Isaiah is a part of our football family and I have been impressed with his growth throughout his career,” Dan Jackson said. “I was really impressed with how his units played last year and he’s going to be a guy who can build a really strong culture within the special teams units, but also have great relationships with everybody on the team.”

For the past eight seasons, Jackson served on the coaching staff at UC Davis, won a Big Sky Conference championship in 2018 and earned berths in the FCS playoffs three times. He primarily coached the linebackers before being promoted to special teams coordinator in 2024.

Jackson began his coaching career at the University of Sioux Falls, working the 2010 season as a graduate assistant linebackers coach for the NAIA national champion Cougars, followed by three more seasons working with the team’s defensive line. He then moved on to West Virginia State, where he coached special teams, linebackers and the defensive line from 2014-16.

Other hires to the SDSU football coaching staff were announced earlier in the week, including offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Eric Eidsness and defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Brian Bergstrom.

This article originally appeared on Sioux Falls Argus Leader: SDSU football announces hiring of special teams coordinator

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Publish date : 2025-01-12 01:14:00

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