player_team coach_years current_team birth_place player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team current_title cfbdwid sport birth_date current_record current_conference article_title name alma_mater
ole miss 1992 2003 2004 2005 2006 -- 2007 2008 -- 2009 2010 1993 -- 2011 2012 -- 1994 1995 1996 -- 2000 2001 -- alcorn state vicksburg , mississippi defensive back 20 -- 12 1988 -- 1991 tulane lsu -lrb- ga -rrb- florida -lrb- ga -rrb- marshall -lrb- -lrb- db -rrb- southern miss -lrb- db -rrb- ole miss -lrb- ga db/rc -rrb- southern miss -lrb- dc/db -rrb- southern miss -lrb- -rrb- dc/mlb -rrb- michigan -lrb- lb -rrb- memphis -lrb- dc/saf -rrb- delta alcorn state state -lrb- db -rrb- head coach 6908 football 13 october 1968 22 -- 13 swac jay hopson
 jay hopson ole miss , delta state
jay hopson

jay hopson -lrb- born october 13 , 1968 -rrb- is the current head football coach at alcorn state university .
previously , he was an assistant coach at tulane , delta state , lsu , florida , marshall , southern miss , ole miss , michigan , and memphis .
notably , hopson is the first 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 letters as a defensive back at ole miss from 1988 -- 91 , playing free safety for one season before moving to strong safety for his final three years .
he was a four-time academic all-sec honor roll selection and was named to the verizon district vi academic all-america team as a senior in 1991 .
