Gulf Coast basketball coach ‘no longer with the team’ after only 8 months on the job
Only eight months after he was hired, Jason Harrison is out as the men’s basketball coach at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
HoopDirt.com was the first to report on Wednesday that the 38-year-old former Ole Miss standout is no longer leading the MGCC program.
On Thursday, MGCCC had little to say about why Harrison is suddenly out of a job.
“He is no longer with the team,” MGCCC spokesman Don Hammack told the Sun Herald.
Hammack declined to go further into detail about the reason for Harrison’s exit.
Harrison did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Sun Herald on Thursday.
Harrison did not coach the team during Tuesday night’s 86-63 loss at Jones College and was absent when the team hosted Sophomore Night with their final regular season game against Hinds Community College in Perkinston on Thursday.
Tyler Adams, who was hired to the MGCCC staff as an assistant in August, coached the team in the last two games of the season.
The Bulldogs (14-8, 6-8 in MACJC) missed out on the postseason with a 74-70 loss to Hinds.
Prior to arriving at MGCCC, Harrison worked for 11 seasons as an assistant at Holmes Community College in Goodman.
Harrison, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, earned All-SEC honors as a starting point guard at Ole Miss in 2000 and 2001.
This story was originally published February 20, 2020 at 1:37 PM.
