
The University of Southern Mississippi is remembering the legacy of former Southern Miss football coach Jim Carmody, who passed away Thursday at the age of 89.
Carmody holds a high place in the rich and proud football tradition at Southern Miss, whose legacy contains some of the finest and most dominating defensive football teams to ever play the game.
He also is the grandfather of current Pass Christian High School head football coach Chase Carmody.
From 1978 to 1987, Carmody was the architect of one of the greatest eras of defensive football in…