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Mickey Joseph
Robert L. "Mickey" Joseph (born March 5, 1968) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Grambling State University, a position he has held since 2024. He served as the interim head coach at the University of Nebraska in 2022. Joseph was the associate head coach and wide receivers coach at Louisiana State University (LSU) from 2017 to 2021, and was also head football coach at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma, from 2011 to 2012.
Joseph attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The native of Marrero, Louisiana, who attended Archbishop Shaw High School started off his career as a capable backup playing behind starters Steve Taylor and Gerry Gdowski for his freshman and sophomore years. He took over the team as the starter in a two-quarterback system with teammate Mike Grant during Joseph's junior year in 1990. As a starter at Nebraska, he led his team to a 9–2 regular season record in his only season as the team's starting signal caller under the direction of head coach Tom Osborne.
That season, Joseph got Nebraska off to a perfect 8–0 record as expectations in Lincoln, Nebraska, were building up off a No. 3 ranking from the AP Poll. The next game came on November 3, 1990, as Nebraska faced nationally ranked No. 1 Colorado. With 2:38 left in the third quarter of this contest, Joseph connected with his tight end Johnnie Mitchell on a 48-yard touchdown pass to give the Huskers a 12–0 lead. However, Colorado surged ahead by scoring 27 unanswered fourth quarter points to win the game, 27–12.
During the regular season finale on November 23, the dual-threat quarterback suffered a season-ending injury by breaking his leg early in the first quarter of the game with the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma. Without Joseph, Nebraska lost, 45–10, and struggled in their bowl game. The 1990 Nebraska Cornhuskers finished at 9–3 and ranked No. 24 nationally after a loss in the Florida Citrus Bowl to co-national champion Georgia Tech, 45–21, on January 1, 1991. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound Joseph ran the triple option as an option quarterback. He led Nebraska in passing yards with 624 and completed 34-of-78 passes with 11 touchdowns and six interceptions in 11 games as a junior. He also ran a tailback predicated option offense that included three I-backs—Leodis Flowers, Scott Baldwin, and Derek Brown—that combined for nearly 2,000 rushing yards. Joseph rushed 91 times for 554 yards including 10 touchdowns and recorded a longest run of 70 yards.
Joseph's best single game passing performance came on November 10, 1990, at Kansas in a 41–9 win over the Jayhawks where he completed 7-of-16 passes for 164 yards and threw touchdown passes of 35 and 28 yards to his tight end, Mitchell. Joseph also had 10 rushes for 58 yards. The Husker signal caller's finest single game rushing performance came on October 27, 1990, in a 45–27 blasting of Iowa State at Ames, Iowa. Joseph rushed for 123 yards on eight carries and went 4-for-4 passing the ball for 67 yards that included touchdown passes to Mitchell of 23 and three yards.
Joseph's most productive offensive performance in a single game came on October 13, 1990, in a 69–21 win over Missouri when he accounted for five touchdowns. Joseph had nine rushes for 95 yards and was 4-for-8 passing the ball for 65 yards that included a 10-yard scoring pass to split end Jon Bostick. Joseph also scored on touchdown runs of 15, five, two, and three yards in the contest with the Tigers.
Joseph finished his career at Nebraska the same way it began. He fell down the depth chart after returning from the leg injury for his senior season as Keithen McCant became the Huskers' starting quarterback. McCant went on to win the 1991 Big Eight Offensive Player of the Year Award. For the 1991 season, Joseph passed for 200 yards off 15-of-30 attempts with a touchdown in 11 games. He rushed 26 times for 112 yards and recorded two touchdowns in limited playing time.
Due to his leg injury at Nebraska, Joseph had to forgo playing quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League where, at 5-foot-10 inches tall and mobile, his skillset would have been suited for the position. Instead, Joseph graduated from Nebraska in 1991 and pursued a teaching and coaching career.
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Mickey Joseph
Robert L. "Mickey" Joseph (born March 5, 1968) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Grambling State University, a position he has held since 2024. He served as the interim head coach at the University of Nebraska in 2022. Joseph was the associate head coach and wide receivers coach at Louisiana State University (LSU) from 2017 to 2021, and was also head football coach at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma, from 2011 to 2012.
Joseph attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The native of Marrero, Louisiana, who attended Archbishop Shaw High School started off his career as a capable backup playing behind starters Steve Taylor and Gerry Gdowski for his freshman and sophomore years. He took over the team as the starter in a two-quarterback system with teammate Mike Grant during Joseph's junior year in 1990. As a starter at Nebraska, he led his team to a 9–2 regular season record in his only season as the team's starting signal caller under the direction of head coach Tom Osborne.
That season, Joseph got Nebraska off to a perfect 8–0 record as expectations in Lincoln, Nebraska, were building up off a No. 3 ranking from the AP Poll. The next game came on November 3, 1990, as Nebraska faced nationally ranked No. 1 Colorado. With 2:38 left in the third quarter of this contest, Joseph connected with his tight end Johnnie Mitchell on a 48-yard touchdown pass to give the Huskers a 12–0 lead. However, Colorado surged ahead by scoring 27 unanswered fourth quarter points to win the game, 27–12.
During the regular season finale on November 23, the dual-threat quarterback suffered a season-ending injury by breaking his leg early in the first quarter of the game with the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma. Without Joseph, Nebraska lost, 45–10, and struggled in their bowl game. The 1990 Nebraska Cornhuskers finished at 9–3 and ranked No. 24 nationally after a loss in the Florida Citrus Bowl to co-national champion Georgia Tech, 45–21, on January 1, 1991. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound Joseph ran the triple option as an option quarterback. He led Nebraska in passing yards with 624 and completed 34-of-78 passes with 11 touchdowns and six interceptions in 11 games as a junior. He also ran a tailback predicated option offense that included three I-backs—Leodis Flowers, Scott Baldwin, and Derek Brown—that combined for nearly 2,000 rushing yards. Joseph rushed 91 times for 554 yards including 10 touchdowns and recorded a longest run of 70 yards.
Joseph's best single game passing performance came on November 10, 1990, at Kansas in a 41–9 win over the Jayhawks where he completed 7-of-16 passes for 164 yards and threw touchdown passes of 35 and 28 yards to his tight end, Mitchell. Joseph also had 10 rushes for 58 yards. The Husker signal caller's finest single game rushing performance came on October 27, 1990, in a 45–27 blasting of Iowa State at Ames, Iowa. Joseph rushed for 123 yards on eight carries and went 4-for-4 passing the ball for 67 yards that included touchdown passes to Mitchell of 23 and three yards.
Joseph's most productive offensive performance in a single game came on October 13, 1990, in a 69–21 win over Missouri when he accounted for five touchdowns. Joseph had nine rushes for 95 yards and was 4-for-8 passing the ball for 65 yards that included a 10-yard scoring pass to split end Jon Bostick. Joseph also scored on touchdown runs of 15, five, two, and three yards in the contest with the Tigers.
Joseph finished his career at Nebraska the same way it began. He fell down the depth chart after returning from the leg injury for his senior season as Keithen McCant became the Huskers' starting quarterback. McCant went on to win the 1991 Big Eight Offensive Player of the Year Award. For the 1991 season, Joseph passed for 200 yards off 15-of-30 attempts with a touchdown in 11 games. He rushed 26 times for 112 yards and recorded two touchdowns in limited playing time.
Due to his leg injury at Nebraska, Joseph had to forgo playing quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League where, at 5-foot-10 inches tall and mobile, his skillset would have been suited for the position. Instead, Joseph graduated from Nebraska in 1991 and pursued a teaching and coaching career.