Bison men's track: Jackson drops football, stays with track

By Jeff Kolpack

February 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM

Track won out over football for Kevin Jackson. The Bison sophomore said Sunday he's decided to give up the two-sport concept and devote his concentration to the sprints.

"Football is a sport where you have to love it," Jackson said. "You have to have a huge passion for it. Don't get me wrong, I had a ton of fun but that's not my true passion."

The 5-foot-11,

185-pound Jackson played in nine games last year as a redshirt freshman registering eight tackles and one pass break up. The original plan this year was to run indoor track and compete in spring football.He is one of NDSU's top track sprinters. In high school, Jackson was a major part of two Michigan state championship track and field teams at East Kentwood High in Grand Rapids.

"I would be cheating myself and cheating the team," he said, in reference to staying with football.

By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.