Bobby Jackson
Bobby Jackson
Robert Lanier Jacksonis an American former football coach and college player who was a professional assistant coach in the National Football Leaguefor 21 seasons, including three as an offensive coordinator. In his NFL tenure, Jackson coached five Pro Bowl running backs, including at least one in three of his five stops where he has tutored the running backs. The list consists of Pro Football Hall of Fame player Marshall Faulk, Stephen Davis, Terry Allen, Brian Mitchell, and Marion Butts...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 February 1940
CitySalisbury, NC
Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.
Don't give up on us. We just didn't rebound the ball well, which has been hurting us all year, and the turnovers. If we can stay between 12 and 13 turnovers, we'll be fine.
We've lost some games we should have won. But very rarely do we get beat by 20.
That was huge for them. And they kept that momentum into the third quarter.
I was shocked at how they played us and the confidence they had. They were arrogant and that's how you have to be. They had that mentality of 'I'm going in the arena and beat their (butts).' We didn't have that.
What I've heard is he doesn't have a lot of heart.
When you are playing a team like that, it is tough to come back. You got to have enough legs to win the game. Burks and (forward Hakim) Warrick came in and played great but it wasn't quite enough.
You have to change in the playoffs. Even though we wanted to score, we knew we had to play at least some decent defense to have a chance to win the game. So we made a valiant effort.
We wanted to tell the younger guys it was just one game.
They were attacking the basket and the officials were calling everything for them. What else can you do? ... We knew they would come out and push the ball. We weren't ready for it.
We started this really for race relations, to bring people together from all races and to show that people can get along. Before the race we brought about this heritage house to promote unity.
We also sponsor the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday celebration every third Monday of January.
We shouldn't get into wrestling matches or trash-talking. In the playoffs, it's who plays the hardest.
It hurt real badly. I couldn't even run.