{"id":123334,"date":"2026-01-19T02:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123334\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:03:33","slug":"jacksonville-state-hires-former-starting-center-as-next-offensive-line-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/123334\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State hires former starting center as next offensive line coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville State will turn to its former starting center to coach its offensive line.<\/p>\n

The program announced the hiring of Adam Ross as its next offensive line coach on Thursday, marking a return to Jacksonville for the former offensive lineman and coach.<\/p>\n

He will replace Rick Trickett, who recently departed for the same position at West Virginia<\/a> to coach alongside Rich Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Ross, a former walk-on at Jax State, started for the three seasons at center for the Gamecocks while they were in the Southland Conference. <\/p>\n

He graduated from Jax State in 2002 and began to serve on staff under Jack Crowe as a student assistant before coaching coaching offensive line, tight ends, and special teams during an 11-year stint at his alma mater.<\/p>\n

During his time as a coach, 11 offensive lineman earned all-conference honors from the Ohio Valley Conference and four were named All-Americans; he also won three OVC titles on staff.<\/p>\n

Ross spent the last two seasons alongside fellow Jax State alum Jody Wright at Murray State, serving as assistant head coach and co-offensive coordinator while also coaching the offensive line.<\/p>\n

The former Jax State offensive lineman also served as offensive line coach at West Alabama and Chattanooga before coaching at FCS Richmond from 2017-2023 as run game coordinator, co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State will turn to its former starting center to coach its offensive line. The program announced the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-123334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}