Joey Jones
Joey Jones went 55–57 as a head coach, 2007–2017, at Birmingham–Southern and South Alabama. Share
Four seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2007 at Birmingham–Southern; 2009–11 at South Alabama (on file under another coach). They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 55–57 career
- Seasons
- 10
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Oct 29, 1962
- Alma mater
- Alabama 1989
- Best season
- 2013 6–6
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Birmingham–Southern * | 3–7 | ||||
| 2008: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2009 | South Alabama * | 7–0 | ||||
| 2010 | South Alabama * | 10–0 | ||||
| 2011 | South Alabama * | 6–4 | ||||
| 2012 | South Alabama | 2–11 | 10th | |||
| 2013 | South Alabama | 6–6 | T–3rd | |||
| 2014 | South Alabama | 6–7 | T–4th | Camellia Bowl L | ||
| 2015 | South Alabama | 5–7 | T–5th | |||
| 2016 | South Alabama | 6–7 | T–8th | Arizona Bowl L | ||
| 2017 | South Alabama | 4–8 | T–8th | |||
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 3 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Against rivals | 11 | 6–5 | 55% |
| Conference games | 47 | 18–29 | 38% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 35 | 15–20 | 43% |
| At home | 35 | 18–17 | 51% |
| On the road | 36 | 9–27 | 25% |
| At neutral sites | 4 | 2–2 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 25 | 16–9 | 64% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 50 | 13–37 | 26% |
His own 75 games on file, 2012–2017, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Hudspeth 2012–2017 | 2–4 | Louisiana | 6 | |
| Trent Miles 2013–2016 | 3–1 | Georgia State | 4 | |
| Paul Petrino 2014–2017 | 2–2 | Idaho | 4 | |
| Blake Anderson 2014–2017 | 1–3 | Arkansas State | 4 | |
| Neal Brown 2015–2017 | 2–1 | Troy | 3 | |
| Dan Mullen 2012–2016 | 1–2 | Mississippi State | 3 | |
| Larry Blakeney 2012–2014 | 1–2 | Troy | 3 | |
| Dennis Franchione 2013–2015 | 1–2 | Texas State | 3 |
Joey Jones’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Troyseries | 6 | 3–3 |
| Louisianaseries | 6 | 2–4 |
| Arkansas Stateseries | 6 | 1–5 |
| Georgia Stateseries | 5 | 3–2 |
| Idahoseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| UL Monroeseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| Georgia Southernseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| Texas Stateseries | 3 | 1–2 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989–90 | Briarwood Christian (AL) high school | Assistant coach | |
| 1991–93 | Dora HS (AL) high school | Head coach | |
| 1996–2005 | Mountain Brook HS (AL) high school | Head coach | |
| 2006–07 | Birmingham–Southern | Head coach | |
| 2008–17 | South Alabama | Head coach | |
| 2018–19 | Mississippi State | Special teams coach | |
| 2024–present | Thompson HS (AL) high school | Wide receivers coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Joe MoorheadMississippi State
Assistants who became head coaches
- Bill ClarkUAB, Jacksonville State
- Bryant VincentUAB, UL Monroe
- Jerry MackKennesaw State, North Carolina Central
- Travis PearsonAlabama State
- Kane WommackSouth Alabama
Worked under (1)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Moorhead | Mississippi State | 2018–19 | Special teams coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Clark | South Alabama, 2008–12: defensive coordinator | UAB, Jacksonville State | |
| Bryant Vincent | South Alabama, 2011: tight ends coach; 2012–13: quarterbacks coach; 2014: offensive coordinator; 2015–17: assistant head coach, co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | UAB, UL Monroe | |
| Jerry Mack | South Alabama, 2012–13: wide receivers coach | Kennesaw State, North Carolina Central | |
| Travis Pearson | South Alabama, 2013: linebackers coach; 2014–15: defensive coordinator | Alabama State | |
| Kane Wommack | South Alabama, 2016–17: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | South Alabama |
Other assistants under him (7)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Dameyune Craig | South Alabama, 2008–09: wide receivers coach | |
| Les Koenning | South Alabama, 2008: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Robert Matthews | South Alabama, 2012–14: offensive coordinator | |
| Kevin Sherrer | South Alabama, 2013: defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Colin Hitschler | South Alabama, 2014: graduate assistant; 2015–16: FBO; 2017: safeties coach | |
| Robby Brown | South Alabama, 2014: running backs coach | |
| Richard Owens | South Alabama, 2017: offensive coordinator |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Alabama | head coachbonuses up to $183,869; $42,704 in bonuses paid; buyout $164,420 | $565,260 USA Today | |
| 2016 | South Alabama | head coachbonuses up to $211,025; $5,000 in bonuses paid | $560,000 USA Today | |
| 2015 | South Alabama | head coachbonuses up to $211,025; $31,438 in bonuses paid | $560,500 USA Today | |
| 2014 | South Alabama | head coachbonuses up to $171,000 | $471,000 USA Today |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.
How he coached
Jones’s teams went for it on 18% of fourth downs and on 32% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 50% of plays and took 23.6 seconds a play, 2012–2017.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 12 g | 23 of 117 20% | 33% | 51% | 20.2 | −0.14 | |
| 2013 12 g | 24 of 99 24% | 38% | 46% | 20.5 | +0.03 | |
| 2014 12 g | 12 of 102 12% | 19% | 47% | 24.3 | −0.11 | |
| 2015 12 g | 16 of 107 15% | 30% | 46% | 23.9 | −0.07 | |
| 2016 13 g | 22 of 102 22% | 35% | 51% | 25.9 | 0.00 | |
| 2017 12 g | 18 of 107 17% | 35% | 56% | 26.7 | −0.12 | |
| All 73 g | 115 of 634 18% | 32% | 50% | 23.6 | −0.07 |
His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.