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Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer’s Jacobs to speak at Macon Touchdown Club
First-year Mercer head coach Mike Jacobs is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Admission for non-members is $30. Membership for the year is $250.
Florida A&M’s James Colzie is next week’s speaker, followed by UGA legend Kevin Butler and then Army head coach Jeff Monken.
Jacobs and the Bears were a top-10 team and undefeated until Saturday’s 55-35 loss to Samford and Maconite Chris Hatcher, dropping them to 6-1 overall and 3-1 in the Southern Conference, still Mercer’s best start.
Jacobs was hired last January to succeed Drew Cronic, who went 28-17 in four seasons and moved on to the offensive coordinator job at Navy. Jacobs succeeded Cronic at Lenoir-Rhyne, and went 32-9, part of his 74-17 career mark at L-R and Notre Dame (Ohio).
A three-time coach-of-the-year winner, he was the national coach of the year in2018 by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette.
He took over a program at Notre Dame in Ohio that was a women’s college for about 80 years before admitting men and then starting football. He took over four years in.
Jacobs was an offensive lineman at Ohio State for John Cooper and Jim Tressel, and has coached at Eastern Michigan, Wilmington (Ohio), Purdue and California (Pa.), before accepting a position as the defensive line coach at Notre Dame in time for the 2014 season.
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