JENKINS NEW B-CU FB COACH:

Bethune-Cookman named Ft. Lauderdale, Florida native Brian Jenkins its tenth head football coach last week. Jenkins was an assistant coach at Rutgers in the 2009 season and will begin his duties with the B-CU football program immediately. He replaces B-CU product Alvin Wyatt who led the Wildcats for the past 11 seasons.

Jenkins joined the Rutgers University football staff in March of 2009 and he was wide receivers coach on Head Coach Greg Schiano's Scarlet Knights' team that won the St. Petersburg Bowl with a 45-24 win over the University of Central Florida last Saturday.

Prior to Rutgers, Jenkins served as running backs coach and special team's coordinator at Louisiana-Lafayette for seven seasons (2002-2008). Jenkins has also coached for the Frankfurt Galaxy of NFL Europe, Bowling Green , Eastern Illinois and Western Kentucky.

He played college football as both a wide receiver and running back at the University of Cincinnati where he graduated in 1993 with an associate's degree in education and bachelor's degree in social work. After college, Jenkins spent six months running his own social work business.

"It is an honor to be selected at such a prestigious university as Bethune-Cookman University," said Jenkins. "I am excited about it and looking forward to getting started. I am ready to go to work and have the opportunity to work with the student-athletes in the football program."

"Brian Jenkins has been a critical part of the success in several major football programs in his journey to become a head coach," said B-CU Athletics Director Lynn Thompson. "He clearly understands that in order to build a championship program you must commit first to building young men. He is a relentless recruiter who is well connected and highly respected. I look forward to watching our tradition rich program grow under his watch."

DOUG WILLIAMS TO SOUTHERN?:

Former Grambling quarterback and head coach Doug Williams is among three candidates that have interviewed for the vacant head coaching position at Southern University and highly-placed sources say the current Tampa Bay Buccaneers' executive is likely to be named this week to the position.

According to a story Sunday in the Baton Rouge Advocate, Williams, Director of Pro Personnel for the Bucs, confirmed that he had a two-hour off-campus meeting with Tony Clayton, Chairman of the Southern Board of Supervisors, prior to the Bucs game Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.

"There was no resolution," Williams said in the Advocate story of the meeting with Clayton. "We talked about the goals for the programs and all the things that need to be done. Southern University is a very good job and for me it's chance to stay home." Williams is from Zacary, La.

Williams, who played and starred for legendary coach Eddie Robinson at Grambling, succeeded his mentor at the Louisiana school in 1998 and spent six seasons as the Tigers' head coach. GSU went 52-18 during his tenure and won three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference championships (2000-02). Williams was the league's coach of the year in those three championship seasons. He is in his first season as the Bucs' Director of Pro Personnel after spending five years as a personnel executive. His contract is up in February.

Southern AD Greg LaFleur met Wednesday with Shaw head coach Darrell Asberry, one of the candidates to replace Pete Richardson, who was fired earlier this month. LaFleur has also interviewed Prairie View A&M defensive coordinator Heishma Northern, a former Southern safety, and Washington Redskins assistant Stump Mitchell.

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