Anyone who listened to the Hall of Fame Syracuse football coach got an earful of Macspeak, and it didn't take long for his words to win (and sometimes irk) over the people engulfed in his college football ethos.
One writer from the South covering the Sugar Bowl at the end of the 1987 season called it "a machine gun that's out of control."
Legendary college football broadcaster called him "the new Duffy Daugherty," a nod to the colorful ex-Michigan State coach.
"What the heck," Jackson said, "provincialism is what gives college football some of its charm.