"Jay Hopson" is the current head American football/football coach at Alcorn State University. Previously, he was an assistant coach at Tulane Green Wave football/Tulane, Delta State University/Delta State, LSU Tigers football/LSU, Florida Gators football/Florida, Marshall Thundering Herd football/Marshall, Southern Miss Golden Eagles football/Southern Miss, Ole Miss Rebels football/Ole Miss, Michigan Wolverines football/Michigan, and Memphis Tigers football/Memphis. Notably, Hopson is the first White American/white head football coach in the history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, an organization made up entirely of historically black colleges and universities.

Hopson played college football at the University of Mississippi. He earned four Varsity letter/letters as a defensive back at Ole Miss from 1988–91, playing free Safety (American and Canadian football position)/safety for one season before moving to strong safety for his final three years. He was a four-time Academic All-Southeastern Conference/SEC honors student/honor roll selection and was named to the Verizon District VI Academic All-America team as a senior in 1991.

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I was pleased with our run game and not pleased with the big plays we gave up in the passing game.

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I think he's seen the light.

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We just weren't good on third and long. The down that should be the easiest to be good on was the down we had penalties or big plays - seven to eight third and 6-pluses were where we just didn't execute. On first and 10 and second and 10 we played well.

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It all starts with him. He can do it all.

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Mississippi was loaded this year. We're tickled to death.

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He's really picked it up. He's probably had the best spring of anyone. He's actually done great, made a lot of big plays.

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Tom Johnson played extremely well.

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