ernest t. jones (born january 18, 1970) is an american football coach he was briefly running backs coach for the university of connecticut huskies football team. he was head football coach at alcorn state university. he was named the head football coach after the 2007 season and served as head coach in 2008. he was controversially fired from this position in december 2008. he returned to the university of cincinnati as the director of player services in 2009. for the 2010 he will be an assistant coach at the university at buffalo under former university of cincinnati assistant coach and now ub head football coach jeff quinn.