Today's Chanticleer Alumni Spotlight showcases Andrae Jacobs, a member of the Coastal Carolina football program from 2008-12. He was a key part of two Big South Championship teams (2010 and 2012) and played in three NCAA Division I FCS Championship Playoff games.

A two-time All-Big South first team selection at linebacker (2010 and 2011), he was also named the 2010 Big South Defensive Player of the Year, the first Chant to win the award.

For his career, he recorded 209 total tackles, including 115 solo stops, over 47 games played. He added 27.0 tackles-for-loss, 6.0 sacks, one interception, two passes defended, and forced one fumble.

To this date, Jacobs ranks sixth in CCU's career record books in tackles-for-loss with 27.0 and 10th in yards from tackles-for-loss with 92. He is also tied for 12th all-time in CCU history with 209 total tackles over his four-year career.

For more information on Andrae, please continue reading the Q&A below.

1. Where are you living now and what are you doing?
I live in Raleigh, N.C. I am a business teacher and a high school football coach. I am also the co-owner of Jacobs & Company.

2. Did you know you always wanted to do what you are doing professionally?
I thought that I wanted to become a sports agent. I thought that teaching high school for a year would buy me time to land an apprenticeship with a sports agency. Eight years later, I'm still teaching.

3. How did your time as a student and student-athlete at Coastal Carolina prepare you for your career and life after college?
The Life After Football meetings with Joe (Moglia) were huge. It gave us a platform to form opinions and constantly made us seek value within ourselves.

4. When was the last time you had been to campus? How has the campus changed?
I usually come back to campus every summer and fall. It's a totally different place since I started there in 2008.

5. What originally attracted you to Coastal as a student-athlete?
David Bennett had a vision of the University becoming what it has become today. I believed in his vision and I wanted to be apart of it.

6. What are some of your most memorable moments from your time as a student-athlete at Coastal?
Living in the dorms as a freshman (Maple 303), meeting my wife in the Commons my freshman year, winning Big South Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore, Phil Hodges' pump-up skits, being voted a team captain in 2012 and winning the football program's first-ever FCS playoff game.

7. How often do you keep in touch with your former teammates?
I speak to the guys of my freshmen class almost daily. A few more than others, but we are constantly in communication.

8. What are some things you enjoy doing in your free time?
Reading (mostly non-fiction).

9. What advice would you have for the current student-athletes at Coastal?
Network! Don't be afraid to ask alumni for help. And "don't be a CAT, be a DOG!"


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