Former Mississippi State head football coach Sylvester Croom is the featured speaker for Monday night's Jackson Touchdown Club meeting at the River Hills Club.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. Admission fee for non-members and guests is $35 and space is limited.
Croom, a former All-SEC and All-American center under Bear Bryant from 1972 to 1974 where he served as senior team captain, spent most of his 42 years in coaching as an NFL assistant.
In 2004 at MSU, he became the first African American head football coach in the SEC. He led the Bulldogs until 2008 in a career that included a win in the Liberty Bowl in 2007. The same season, he was named SEC Coach of the Year by the AP and SEC coaches, the AFCA Coach of the Year and Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year.
He returned to the pro ranks after Mississippi State and retired from coaching in 2018. He now resides in Mobile, Alabama where he's the Senior Bowl's senior vice-president of operations.