Bowling Green State University Athletics
Orr Finalizing Men's Basketball Staff
April 25, 2007 | Men's Basketball
April 25, 2007
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green State University men's basketball coach Louis Orr has announced that George Jackson, a Cincinnati native and member of his staff at Seton Hall, will join the Falcon program as an assistant coach. Orr also is retaining third-year coach LaMonta Stone and is in the process of looking to fill his third full-time slot in the next month or so.
"I am excited that George and his family will be joining us at BGSU," said Orr. "We have a great working relationship and he has so many contacts across the state and that will be a tremendous asset to our program."
Jackson spent one year as an assistant coach and four years as an administrative assistant for the Pirates. He joined Seton Hall after spending 23 years at the high school level in Ohio. He was a high school and junior high teammate of Orr's
He spent 22 years at Withrow High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving as the head coach for 20 seasons. His Withrow teams were extremely successful, as he compiled a 311-146 record as the boys' head coach. Included in that tenure were 12 conference titles, eight sectional titles and five district championships. Withrow also won two regional championships and was a state semifinalist twice, finishing as the Ohio runner-up in 1994.
More than 60 of Jackson's players from Withrow continued their education in college on basketball scholarships including Brandon Hunter of the Charlotte Bobcats and former NBA players Tyrone Hill and Ricky Calloway. He also taught health and physical education at the school while serving as assistant athletic director for three years.
He earned numerous honors during this coaching career. He was the Coach of the Year in the Queen City Conference-Metro seven times and was named the Greater Cincinnati Coach of the Year three times. Jackson has been inducted into the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame, the Southwest Ohio Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and Hamilton County (Ohio) Sports Hall of Fame, and received the 2001 New Voices Roberto Clemente Outstanding Athlete and Exceptional Humanitarian Award. He also received the Applause Magazine Imagemakers Sports Award in 1995.
He graduated from Wittenberg University in 1979 and was a member of Wittenberg's basketball team which won the NCAA Division III national championship. He also captained the basketball and baseball teams there. He and his wife Melanie, have a daughter, Stephanie.
"He's a very good basketball mind who has an ability to communicate, an eye for talent, and an ability to develop talent.," added Orr. "George has been and will be a big asset to our program. We work well together, and having known him for so long we have a great understanding of each other."
Stone will be entering his fourth year with the Falcons. He also has coached collegiately at Ohio State and Eastern Michigan and was a successful high school coach in the Detroit area as well.
"I have been very impressed with Lamonta and think he will be a tremendous asset during the transition," said Orr. "He is well respected in Detroit and throughout Michigan and that is an area that is critical to us with regards to recruiting. In addition, he has experience coaching in the MAC and he knows the ins and outs of the league and that will be invaluable."
