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Joe Kines played football for Jacksonville State for three seasons from 1963-65 and won three-straight Alabama Collegiate Conference Championships with the Gamecocks. As a senior in 1965, he helped JSU post a 6-2 record in the first season under head coach Jim Blevins. He played for Hall of Fame coach Don Salls in 1963 and 1964, when the team posted back-to-back 4-4-1 records. Kines earned both his bachelors and masters degrees from Jacksonville State. He began his coaching career at Jacksonville State, where he worked for Clarkie Mayfield from 1973-76. He was the Gamecocks’ defensive coordinator and assistant head coach in 1976, before moving to Clemons to be the linebackers coach from 1977-78. He then served as linebackers coach/defensive coordinator at Florida from 1979-84 under former JSU head coach Charley Pell and then at the University of Alabama under Ray Perkins from 1985-86. Kines coached linebackers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League from 1987-90 prior to joining former JSU head coach Jack Crowe’s staff at Arkansas as defensive coordinator, where he posted a 3-6-1 record while serving as interim head coach during the 1992 season. Kines also served as defensive coordinator at Arkansas (1993-94) and Georgia (1995-99) and was the linebackers coach at Florida State under Bobby Bowden from 2000-02. Kines was the defensive coordinator at Alabama from 2003-06 and served as the interim head coach for the Crimson Tide’s appearance in the 2006 Independence Bowl. He finished his coaching career as the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M in 2008-09 before his retirement.
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