🏈 Former JSU coach, athletics director Jim Fuller dies at 76

[252BAMA]

Jim Fuller

Former Jacksonville State coach and athletics director Jim Fuller died Wednesday.

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Former JSU coach, athletics director Jim Fuller dies at 76​

Former Jacksonville State head football coach and athletics director Jim Fuller died Wednesday at 76.

 

[252BAMA]

Fair Park Little League teammate. Battery mate actually. I couldn't pitch but I was big for my age and could throw the heck out of the ball. He was the only one on the team scrappy enough to get behind the plate when I was throwing. I was 12 and he was 8!

 

[64Tide]

Very personable guy. Recruited a kid I coached back in the mid 80s. Remember him showing me a 3 ring binder with about 300 pages and saying “this is our playbook…for Penn State”. He coached the OLINE, Homer Smith was OC at the time.

 

[rick4bama]

Losing some great coaches. R.I.P.

 

[alabama mike]

Sorry to read this, may he rest in peace and his family find comfort during this difficult time.

 

[UAgrad93]

Coach Fuller recruited me when I was in HS and he was so likable!! He was tough but he was a players coach! He once showed up at the school to talk to my HC and I saw him so I ran over to him to talk. He told me he couldn’t because of NCAA rules not allowing coaches to talk to recruits at certain times. I asked “how about friend to friend?” He stared at me for a second or two and said, “well Hell! I don’t see why not! How’s your mom and dad and little sister?”

He played on 2 National title teams, ‘64 and ‘65 and then coached in 3 separate staffs at UA ( Perkins, Curry, and Stallings). He will be missed!!
RIP Coach

 

[PurlJam]

R.I.P coach…I had always thought he may have been a darkhorse to replace coach Bryant back in the day..always had solid teams at JSU

 

[XXL TideFan]

Have a friend that played for him until he had a football ending wreck.