Biloxi introduces new football coach, who brings three titles and expects to win big
A coach with a championship pedigree is stepping out of retirement to lead a Coast program.
Jamey DuBose was introduced on Wednesday at the Biloxi High School Performance Art Center as the the Indians’ newest head football coach.
DuBose arrives after spending two seasons leading a four-year-old Orange Beach program in Alabama where he helped design an upcoming $47 million athletic facility before announcing his retirement in November.
DuBose has spent 18 years as a head coach with 16 of them coming in Alabama. He led Prattville to 6A state titles in 2008 and 2011. DuBose then led Central-Phenix City to a 7A state title in 2018. He arrives on the Coast with 166 career wins.
“I’m a guy that loves challenges, I’m a guy that loves to build things,” DuBose said at his presser. “This place is not broken. It’s in good shape, it’s had good years. I want to get over the hump and have a Coast team contend for it ... I want to build something that sustains like I’ve done at some other places.”
He takes over a program that has made seven playoff trips since 2010 and has just one postseason win in that stretch. In that same span, DuBose has won 22 playoff games at three different schools, and his Central-Phenix City team won their district all six seasons he coached.
DuBose said he plans to make BHS his final coaching stop and hopes to accomplish a personal goal: to win a state championship in two different states.
“I know how to get there,” DuBose said. “I’m going to do what I’ve done everywhere else and I expect to win here.”
DuBose replaces Katlan French, who led the program for six seasons and reached the playoffs four times.
This story was originally published December 13, 2023 at 1:01 PM.
