Jones takes over South Alabama's new program
Published 2/16/2008 at FOXSports.com News for COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Former Alabama star Joey Jones, introduced Friday as the coach of South Alabama's first football team, said the best players in the Southeast live on the Gulf Coast around Mobile and he plans to make recruiting them a priority.
Jones, a 45-year-old Mobile native who spent the past two years at Birmingham-Southern College, where he restarted a football program dormant since 1939, was given a five-year contract at South Alabama. His salary will be $275,000.
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