Campbell to be inducted into MCC Hall of Fame
PERKINSTON — Former Mississippi Gulf Coast football coach Steve Campbell will be inducted into the Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday night in Pearl.
He will join inductees from the other 14 community colleges and become the 19th Gulf Coast standout to be recognized.
Campbell became head football coach at Gulf Coast in 2004 and remained until December 2013, when he took a job as head football coach at the University of Central Arkansas. The Bulldogs had been ranked in the NJCAA poll for 114 straight weeks, including eight at No. 1, 40 in the Top 5 and 93 in the Top 10.
During his time at Gulf Coast, he racked up an 87-22 record and added 10 trophies to the college trophy cases for seven Mississippi Association of Junior and Community Colleges South Division Championships, three MACJC State Championships and one National Junior College Athletic Association Co-National Championship. The Bulldogs played in six straight MACJC championship games and in seven of eight from 2005-12.
Campbell's teams also earned trophies in six bowl games, four of which were victories. He was named Coach of the Year 10 times and was inducted in the NJCAA Football Hall of Fame in 2014. At Gulf Coast, the Bulldogs had 28 NJCAA All-Americans. He is the second-winningest coach in school history in wins and third in winning percentage (.798).
He coached at Central Arkansas until 2017, compiling a 33-15 record. He's the third-winningest coach by percentage in school history. Campbell was hired by South Alabama as head coach in 2018, and he headed up the program in Mobile for three seasons. Prior to arriving at Perkinston, he was the head coach at Southwest Mississippi Community College before going to Delta State in 1999.
The Statesmen went 27-8 during his time in Cleveland, winning the 2000 NJCAA Division II national championship following a 14-1 season.
Campbell is a rare individual in having been involved in three national championships – as a player at Troy State, a Division II head coach at Delta State and as a community college head coach at MGCCC.
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