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Groundbreaking Memphis Tigers baseball coach Kerrick Jackson has left the program after just one season. A Tigers athletic department spokesman confirmed the exit this past weekend, and SEC-member Missouri announced later that it had hired Jackson.

The first Black head baseball coach in Memphis program history, Jackson coached Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 2018 to 2020. A former pitcher at St. Louis Community College, Bethune-Cookman and Nebraska, he was named SWAC Coach of the Year after leading the Jaguars to a conference championship in 2019.

Also a former Washington Nationals Midwest Area Scouting Supervisor and a former certified player agent, he came to Memphis after a stint as president of MLB Draft League, a website covering the Major League Baseball Draft. Jackson, who played high school baseball near St. Louis, replaced the retired Daron Schoenrock, who led Memphis for 18 years including eight seasons with at least 30 wins, five straight of which came consecutively 2011 to 2015.

At Missouri Jackson replaces fired former New York Mets and Pittsburgh catcher Steve Bieser, who went 188-155-1 over seven seasons including 30-24 with a seventh-place finish in the SEC East Division this year. Mizzou never finished better than fourth in the SEC East or above .500 in conference play under Bieser.