ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Kennesaw State has hired Jerry Mack as its new head football coach.
Mack joins Kennesaw State after spending most of the season as the running backs coach of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. He held the same position at Tennessee from 2021 to 2023.
During his time in Knoxville, the Volunteers were one of the best rushing offenses in the country, setting school records and leading the SEC in rushing.
He was also Rice’s offensive coordinator from 2018 to 2020.
Kennesaw State will be Mack’s second head coaching job. He was the head coach of FCS program North Carolina Central from 2014 to 2017; he went 31-15 and won three conference titles.
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“I am grateful and honored to be entrusted as the leader and standard bearer of our team,” Mack said in a statement issued by Kennesaw State. “I’m looking forward to helping our young men build on the success of our program, obtain degrees, win championships, and develop into great citizens that our KSU family will be proud of.”
Mack was hired after previous head coach Brian Bohannon left the program under contested circumstances. The school says Bohannon stepped down; Bohannon says he was fired.
Bohannon left the program after going 1-8 in the Owls’ first season at the FBS level. He had been the only coach in program history, building the program from scratch starting in 2015.
Mack will be introduced during a press conference on Tuesday at 11 a.m.
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