Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Kellenberger: Hopson, Alcorn Braves riding high with Gibbs

LORMAN, Mississippi -- Does anyone in the SWAC have it better than Jay Hopson these days?

The fourth-year Alcorn State coach has done wonders in his time in charge of the program, making everyone forget the storyline (when he was hired in May 2012) about being a white head coach in the historically black SWAC. Now he’s just a good coach that won a SWAC championship in 2014, and comes into August with 16 returning starters.

Of those guys returning, none is as important to the program — not just getting it to this point, but in its efforts to repeat as SWAC champs in 2015 — as quarterback John Gibbs Jr. He enters his senior season with 33 career starts, which has to be near the top of any list of returning quarterbacks nationally.

Hopson wanted to ...

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