J. C. Harper is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at Stephen F. Austin State University, a position he has held since December 2006. Harper played defensive tackle at Clemson University from 1985–88, while his father Tom Harper served as defensive coordinator. He was a member of three Atlantic Coast Conference championship teams and four bowl teams. Clemson also finished in the final top 20 of the AP poll in 1986, 1987 and 1988. Harper was promoted to head coach of the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks from his position as defensive... coordinator in December 2006. He was the third head coach in four seasons. Starting from scratch, Harper led the Lumberjacks to a Southland Conference championship in just his third season and then repeated as SLC champions in his fourth season. It was the first back-to-back championships in school history. The 2009 season saw the program's first conference title in ten years, a berth in the NCAA FCS playoffs and a top-10 national ranking.
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