Anthony Jones joined the San Jose State University football staff in June 2021 as the coordinator of player personnel.
Jones comes to the Spartans after spending 2020 as the San Diego State University recruiting coordinator. During the 2017 through 2019 seasons, he was the Contra Costa College passing game and special teams coordinator. Jones also coached the team's quarterbacks and wide receivers.
The 2009 Jacksonville State University graduate majored in business management. Jones played two seasons at Troy University as a running back and concluded his college football career as a wide receiver and running back for Jacksonville State in 2007 and 2008. He went on to play professionally in the Indoor Football League (IFL) for the Billings Outlaws, Sioux City Bandits, and Richmond Revolution franchises in 2010 and 2011.
Jones began his coaching career as an assistant football coach at Union (Mo.) High near St. Louis, in 2011. He spent the next three seasons as an assistant football coach at Pace (Fla.) High. In 2015, Jones moved to California and became the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Bishop O'Dowd High in Oakland, Calif. The next year in 2016, Bishop O'Dowd won its first California Interscholastic Federation (C.I.F.) state championship defeating Valley View High of Moreno Valley, Calif., for the Division 5-AA title.
Jones was raised in Pensacola, Fla. His wife's name is Maya Jones.
Jones comes to the Spartans after spending 2020 as the San Diego State University recruiting coordinator. During the 2017 through 2019 seasons, he was the Contra Costa College passing game and special teams coordinator. Jones also coached the team's quarterbacks and wide receivers.
The 2009 Jacksonville State University graduate majored in business management. Jones played two seasons at Troy University as a running back and concluded his college football career as a wide receiver and running back for Jacksonville State in 2007 and 2008. He went on to play professionally in the Indoor Football League (IFL) for the Billings Outlaws, Sioux City Bandits, and Richmond Revolution franchises in 2010 and 2011.
Jones began his coaching career as an assistant football coach at Union (Mo.) High near St. Louis, in 2011. He spent the next three seasons as an assistant football coach at Pace (Fla.) High. In 2015, Jones moved to California and became the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Bishop O'Dowd High in Oakland, Calif. The next year in 2016, Bishop O'Dowd won its first California Interscholastic Federation (C.I.F.) state championship defeating Valley View High of Moreno Valley, Calif., for the Division 5-AA title.
Jones was raised in Pensacola, Fla. His wife's name is Maya Jones.