Education
He attended Pearl High School in Nashville where he was a successful basketball player.
He attended Pearl High School in Nashville where he was a successful basketball player.
He is best known as the head coach of the Southern University Jaguars - a position he held for 12 years. He has also been head coach of the men"s college basketball teams at Tuskegee University, Talladega College, Alabama State University, South Carolina State University, University of Denver and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. Jobe has also served as assistant coach at the University of South Carolina, Georgia Technical, and briefly served as an assistant with the National Basketball Association"s Denver Nuggets.
Ben Jobe was raised in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1950, Jobe earned all-district and all-state honors and was then named to the 1951 all-national high school team Jobe then enrolled at Fisk University, earning All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors during his junior and senior seasons.
He earned a bachelor"s degree from Fisk in 1956 and later went on to earn a master"s degree from Tennessee State University. In 1958, Jobe began his coaching career at Cameron High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
After the season was over, Jobe decided to move to Sierra Leone, West Africa to coach a junior college basketball team
Jobe"s coaching had a quick effect: his teams posted back-to-back undefeated seasons. Jobe returned to the United States and began coaching at Talladega College in Alabama, a position which he held for three years. Ben Jobe took the helm of the Southern University Jaguars in 1986.
He stayed on until 1996.
He returned again to Southern in 2001 for two more seasons, retiring completely from college basketball in 2003. Jobe coached former San Antonio Spurs star guard (former coach of the Brooklyn Nets and Dallas Mavericks) Avery Johnson and late Charlotte Hornets player Bobby Phills.