James Green is a college basketball

College basketball

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 coach, currently the Head Coach at Jacksonville State University, in Jacksonville, Alabama

Alabama

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College Coaching career

Green has held posts as assistant coach at the University of Idaho

University of Idaho

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, Texas A&M University-College Station, University of Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....

 and Iowa State University

Iowa State University

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. In 1996 he moved on to the poisiton of head coach

Head coach

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 at The University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi, informally known as Southern Miss, is a large public research university located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. It is situated north of Gulfport, Mississippi and northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana...

 and later Mississippi Valley State University

Mississippi Valley State University

Mississippi Valley State University is a historically black university located in Itta Bena, Mississippi, in the United States. MVSU is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund....

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JSU

Green interviewed for the head coaching vacancy (left behind by the non-renewal of past Head Coach, Mike LaPlante

Mike LaPlante

Michael McCormick LaPlante is an American college basketball coach, who coached Jacksonville State University for eight seasons. His contract was not renewed following the 2007-08 season. Before becomong the head men's basketball coach at JSU, LaPlante served as an assistant coach at Auburn...

) on Friday April 18, 2008 in Jacksonville, Alabama. He took over a JSU Gamecock Program that had lost 20 or more games in 3 of the last 4 seasons and expected to take a slight hit due to APR Standards not being met (Scholarship Reduction). Green is the first black

Black people

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Head Coach of a Major Sport at Jacksonville State University.

External links

• Bio at JSU