South Alabama football coach Joey Jones won't return in 2018, the school announced Monday.
Jones will coach the Jaguars in their Dec. 2 season finale at New Mexico State and then step down. The move comes two days after USA lost 52-0 to previously winless Georgia Southern, dropping to 4-7 and clinching its fourth straight losing season.
The 55-year-old Jones is 52-49 in nine seasons at South Alabama, where he started the football program from scratch in 2009. The Jaguars won their first 19 games while transitioning to the Division I level, and reached the Camellia Bowl in 2014, their second season as a full Sun Belt member.