The Jackson State Tigers of the Southwestern Athletic Conference have lost five of their first six games halfway through their football season. Head coach Harold Jackson was fired five games into the season following an embarrassing 59-27 loss to Grambling earlier this month.
And that's where this story really gets going.
Outside of the fact that Jackson State administrators figured it was a good idea to fire a coach after just 17 games, the man they replaced Jackson with is changing the MO of the football program in his first couple weeks at the helm.
Since Derrick McCall took over on an interim basis earlier this month, he's apparently limited at least one local newspaper of the access it had during Jackson's regime.