Missouri announced Sunday that it had hired Memphis coach Kerrick Jackson as its new baseball head coach.
Jackson, a former Missouri assistant coach, will be the first Black baseball head coach in SEC history and was one of four Black men who started the 2023 season as head coaches at non-HBCU schools at the top level of college baseball.
A native of St. Louis, Jackson was hired after Steve Bieser was fired at the end of the 2023 season and takes over a Missouri baseball program that hasn’t made the NCAA baseball tournament in over a decade. The Tigers last made the tournament in 2012 when Jackson was an assistant. Missouri baseball has struggled to keep up in the SEC since moving over from the Big 12.
Jackson was at Memphis for just one season after a three-year stint as the president of the MLB Draft League. The six-team Draft League was started in 2021 as a showcase for draft-eligible players ahead of the annual MLB draft.Before he ran the Draft League, Jackson coached at Southern from 2018-20 and the Jaguars made the NCAA tournament in 2019. He’s also served as a scout for the Washington Nationals.
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