George Jackson Last College: Wittenberg '79 Position: Assistant Coach Experience: One season

George Jackson, a Cincinnati native, joined the Falcon program as an assistant coach in April of 2007.

Jackson spent one year as an assistant coach and four years as an administrative assistant with Coach Louis Orr at Seton Hall. He joined the Pirates after spending 23 years at the high school level in Ohio. He was a high school and junior high teammate of Orr's.

In his first season with the Falcons, Jackson helped the team to a 13-17 record. BGSU more than doubled the MAC win total from the previous season, going 7-9 in conference play in 2007-08 after a 3-13 league mark the previous winter.

Those seven MAC wins included victories over the teams picked to finish first, second and third in the East Division in the 2007-08 preseason poll. One of those wins came over Kent State, the eventual MAC champion and a nationally-ranked team at the time, in the Falcons' final home game on March 1, 2008.

Prior to joining Orr at Seton Hall, Jackson spent 22 years at Withrow High School in Cincinnati, serving as the head coach for 20 seasons. His Withrow teams were extremely successful, as he compiled a 311-146 record as the boys' head coach. Included in that tenure were 12 conference titles, eight sectional titles and five district championships. Withrow also won two regional championships and was a state semifinalist twice, finishing as the Ohio runner-up in 1994.

More than 60 of Jackson's players from Withrow continued their education in college on basketball scholarships including Brandon Hunter of the Charlotte Bobcats and former NBA players Tyrone Hill and Ricky Calloway. He also taught health and physical education at the school while serving as assistant athletic director for three years.

Jackson earned numerous honors during his high-school coaching career. He was the Coach of the Year in the Queen City Conference-Metro seven times and was named the Greater Cincinnati Coach of the Year three times. Jackson has been inducted into the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame, the Southwest Ohio Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and Hamilton County (Ohio) Sports Hall of Fame, and received the 2001 New Voices Roberto Clemente Outstanding Athlete and Exceptional Humanitarian Award. He also received the Applause Magazine Imagemakers Sports Award in 1995.

Jackson was graduated from Wittenberg University in 1979 and was a member of Wittenberg's basketball team which won the NCAA Division III national championship. He also captained the basketball and baseball teams there. Jackson and his wife, Melanie, have a daughter, Stephanie.