Grambling State has named former LSU and Nebraska assistant Mickey Joseph as its new head football coach. Joseph replaces Hue Jackson who was fired after two seasons. Joseph is from Marerro and this will be his second stint with Grambling.
“We’re going to play hard, we’re going to play to the echo of the whistle, on the offensive side of the ball, we are going to be very aggressive,” said Joseph.
Joseph was also a wide receivers coach and special teams assistant at Grambling in 2014 and 2015. He’s also spent time as an assistant at Nicholls and Louisiana Tech, so he knows the state well and plans to bring in Louisiana’s best prep stars…
“Right here in the state of Louisiana, pound for pound is the best state for high school football, so we are going to draw a five-hour radius around Grambling, but we are going to stay in the state to recruit these kids,” said Joseph.
In 2022, Joseph served nine games as an interim head coach at Nebraska. He was cut loose by the university in December after he was arrested for felony assault by strangulation or suffocation against his wife. The charges were dropped last April.
Joseph says he plans to be active in the community.
“I’m going to be a guy that you can touch, I’m going to go into Walmart, I’m not going to hide or say I’m too big for this, I’m a real one as the kids would say,” said Joseph.
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