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MPW Digital Extra: Ole Miss men's tennis coach Jake Jacoby

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chase Parham sits down with new Ole Miss men's tennis coach Jake Jacoby. The Little Rock, Ark., native was most recently the associate head coach at Mississippi State, where he helped the Bulldogs to four Sweet Sixteens and an Elite Eight in 2025. Jacoby played collegiate tennis at Iowa and was also an assistant coach at Charlotte. Jacoby brought in three new players this summer, and Ole Miss was recently named the most improved team nationally heading into the season because of those recruiting efforts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Jake really appreciate the time to today this morning you guys close to getting back at it, first practice in about a dozen days or so school getting in session.

0:19.0

You were getting used to Oxford with tons of students here

0:23.0

finally the traffic picks up all the stuff sort of sort of changes you know we we get the town a

0:28.2

little bit in the summer for the locals but then once school kicks in you're you're done and

0:32.1

everything takes a little longer to get here and there but uh just in general how's it uh how's it been

0:37.3

in uh in in in Oxford so far?

0:39.3

No, it's been amazing, Chase.

0:41.3

The people so far that I've been around every day have been nothing but helpful,

0:45.3

I made this feel like home as best as I can so far.

0:49.3

Obviously coming from Starkville, it's a very interesting time to come to Oxford,

0:53.3

but you're right. I've gotten used

0:55.4

to the square being pretty open and available with the restaurants and shops, and I have to get my

1:01.4

head around that maybe not being as easy with all the kids coming in soon. But I'm excited for my

1:07.3

guys to come in soon and get to work with them. I see you guys, obviously, your old

1:12.4

miss gear on right there. What did you do with all the maroon swag over the last few years?

1:16.7

Where does it go? Do we give it away? What do we do? That was six years worth of it. There's a lot.

1:22.3

I've made a lot of friends in Starville. There's some cool gear that I gave to some people there.

1:26.6

And my parents wanted a couple things to keep as well.

1:30.2

But a lot of friends and family keep some of that. But you're right. It's all Nike and

1:35.2

Ole Miss now. Don't worry. So for any of our listeners who haven't followed tennis as closely,

1:41.1

you guys, the main seasons are in the spring we and I were just discussing this

1:44.3

for a second right before we started but sort of lay out the calendar for me a little bit because

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