LSU football only had to look to its neighboring HBCU to find a new member of its staff. Rick Jackson, formerly director of football operations/player personnel at Southern University, has joined LSU football as assistant director of football operations. Jackson arrived to Southern after four seasons in the same job at Prairie View A&M, an HBCU. He has been in that job at Southern since 2022.
He was in charge of the team finances, home and away travel, summer camps and coaching clinics, and acted as the pro scout liaison. In addition, he handled the football program’s everyday operations. Jackson, a Los Angeles native, attended Grambling State and played for head coach Rod Broadway there. Grambling State won both the Black College National Championship and the Southwestern Athletic Conference crown during his first season there in 2008. He was named team captain as a senior. As an offensive guard, he paved the way for Frank Warren, the school’s all-time leading runner with 3,910 yards.
Jackson spent his post-playing career as the director of football operations and graduate assistant coach at Grambling under head coach Doug Williams. As a graduate assistant, his duties included serving as assistant offensive line coach, studying future opponents or potential recruits, analyzing and assessing film, and organizing day-to-day interactions between coaches and players. Jackson, who spent nearly two decades in the SWAC, will now play football at LSU.
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