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Parker Dykes played offensive guard and defensive tackle for head coach Sim Cooley’s first team at JCJC in 1961.
He was Honorable Mention All-State in 1962 and selected to play in the Junior College East/West All-Star Game.
He attended Mississippi College after graduating from JCJC. He received the Dana X. Bible Outstanding Blocker Award and was president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at MC.
He began his coaching career as an assistant at Forest High School from 1965-67. He was head football coach, head track coach and athletic director at Ackerman High School from 1968-69 and at Monticello High School from 1970-71.
Dykes served as a graduate assistant with the offensive line at Southern Mississippi in 1972 and was the defensive coordinator/defensive line coach at Arkansas State University from 1973-79. ASU won the Southland Conference in 1975 and 1978, posting a 12-0 record and No. 18 final national ranking in 1975.
Dykes then became the defensive coordinator/defensive line coach at the University of Richmond from 1980-81.
He worked in private business from 1982-86 before returning to the sidelines as defensive coordinator at Hinds Community College from 1987-91. While at Hinds, Dykes helped coach five South Division and one state championship team.
He returned to JCJC in 1992, where his teams posted a 92-50-1 record over his 14 years as head coach. In 1998, the Bobcats went 12-0 and were named national champions by Mike Gottfried’s Gridiron Magazine. They won state titles in 1998 and 2002 and appeared in four bowl games. In 1998, he was named Coach of the Year by the Mississippi Association of Coaches, the MACJC and the All-American Football Foundation.
After leaving JCJC following the 2005 season, Dykes went to Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., as Director of Football Operations and defensive line coach in 2006-07. In 2007-08, he was part-time Associate Director of the Football Coaches Ministry of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and was a part-time scout for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.
He became defensive coordinator at Sylva-Bay Academy in Bay Springs in 2008 and became defensive coordinator at Jefferson County High School in Tennessee in 2009.
He was elected to the NJCAA Hall of Fame in 2005, served as president of the National Junior College Football Coaches Association from 2001-03 and the American Community Colleges Football Coaches Association in 2004. He received the FCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
He began the annual reunion of the 1961-63 Bobcat football teams, sponsors a scholarship in the honor Freydis Thigpen Dykes and is a member of the JCJC Alumni Association and Bobcat Club.
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