Dan Jackson

You've met Jimmy Rogers? Had beers with him.

In Brookings with Dan Jackson.

They were assistant coaches, yeah.

You

Jason Eck was on that staff with him.

It's a good staff.

Dan Jackson, Jason Eck, Jimmy Rogers.

Those were the assistant coaches.

Also dive into some rankings here around ten twenty-ish on today's show.

We did be-- we were able to catch up with Head Coach Dan Jackson on Monday.

We'll play back that interview for all you Jackrabbit fans out there ahead of the match up with the New Haven Chargers coming into town six o'clock on Saturday.

Head Coach Dan Jackson recapping a tough loss for his team against Northwestern, a game in which coach believes they absolutely, positively should've and could've won in Evanston.

We'll talk with Coach Jackson coming up around ten forty.

And in hour number two, quick foray toe dip into your headlines and highlights before we welcome in Augustana Viking Head Football Coach Jerry Olszewski, and we'll also hit the good, the bad, and the ugly before we're off the air.

Nine AA, it's Parkston, nine Singa Lee, Freeman over Castlewood there, and nine B, St. Mary's over Wall, also a split first place vote.

You can find that poll later on today at espnsiouxfalls.com. We'll take a break, come back with Jackrabbit Football Talk.

7 o'clock on the Big Ten Network.

Coach Dan Jackson about the visibility that a game like this gives his program.

These games have the potential to do a lot for you when you're scheduling them correctly.

I mean, we recruit...

yeah you know we didn't play them last year like you said they were new in the league last year but i do know this they've got a pretty talented quarterback who's going to run around uh quarterback run games big for them which if you obviously read the game on thursday night you know we struggle with that that's a focus emphasis this week uh they've got a couple big receivers that really are effective catching the ball in space big body kids and then defensively they're pretty multiple you know they kind of line twist and stunt which is some of the issues we had was picking some of that stuff up on thursday night so ironically some of the same challenges that we had on Thursday are going to present themselves again on Saturday and so that's an area emphasis this week got to do a better job of being able to handle their front and then obviously we've got to be able to contain the quarterback a little bit better than we did on Thursday night if we want to be successful but yeah first road trip of the year got to go up to just outside just west of Fargo there up to Jamestown we've been there a couple times in the past we've kind of stopped there and practiced on our way to play other games in the past so we'd somewhat familiar with it have been there before but um yeah we got somewhat of a young team first road trip and all that good stuff but we just got to focus on the things that matter taking care of the football stopping them on third downs getting first downs converting on offense and then hopefully putting the

ball in the end zone and stopping them as much as possible and there you go some keys to the ball game against jamestown that game for usf a one o'clock kick time on saturday later on you got south dakota state at northwestern out of the big 10 7 o'clock on the big 10 network big game for the jackrabbits big opportunity and that's not lost on coach dan jackson

yeah it's the same that it that it is every week and uh the guys are focused on going we're going to follow our same procedures and protocols and how we prepare for a game and an opponent Uh, in a lot of ways, this feels to me like we're going out to play Illinois state, you know, it's a road game.

Uh, we're going out to Illinois and just getting everybody comfortable with that, uh, there.

So I like that one.

Two names that are not on this list that stand out, and I don't know if they've signed anywhere else yet or not, I have not seen that they have, are the two 2025 draftees from Georgia, Dan Jackson and Dominic Lovett.

Not going to say that either of them earned real consideration for the 53, but the fact that they're not on the practice squad.

And

That is certainly a dynamic that could be in play with Lovett and Jackson.

I don't know that it's not, but Not looking great for those guys.

Dan Jackson very quickly fell to the bottom of the safety depth chart.

And the only reason that he kept getting propped up was because the guys behind him kept getting hurt.

So a lot of familiar names in that group.

They waived Nick Whiteside, Amaris Brown, Ryan Cooper, Eric Scott, Jason Taylor, Dan Jackson.

So that's, you know, the Dan Jackson one.

He was he was a pickup last year's draft 2025 out of Georgia.

So he's gone.

Yep, seventh rounder.

Lovett was picked 244.

Dan Jackson was 230.