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Coaching Carousel
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November 26th
CU running backs coach Marshall Faulk hired as the new head coach at Southern University
Tweet from New Orleans reporter Batiste … Source: The deal is done. Marshall Faulk will be the next head coach for Southern University.
From Football Scoop … Southern University decided barely midway through Year 2 that it needed a reset from Terrence Graves after the program opened the 2025 season 1-6.
Though Graves guided the Jaguars to a SWAC Championship game-appearance and eight-win season in 2024, Southern has been searching for his replacement since late-October.
While interim head coach Fred McNair has been in consideration for the job, numerous sources tell FootballScoop that Southern officials are zeroing in their search on Marshall Faulk.
A New Orleans, Louisiana, native, who’s been beloved in his home state throughout his career due to his community-minded and philanthropic efforts, Faulk is finishing his first season as running backs coach for Deion Sanders at Colorado.
A College Football and Pro Football Hall of Famer, Faulk starred at San Diego State in his collegiate career and then shined first for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts before he won a Super Bowl and was named NFL MVP with the then-St. Louis Rams.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Southern University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has offered the job to Faulk, who could potentially coach his final game at Colorado Saturday at Kansas State.
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Colorado State hires UConn coach Jim Mora as its new head coach
From ESPN … UConn football coach Jim Mora is leaving the school to become the next head coach at Colorado State.
Colorado State athletic director John Weber announced Mora’s hiring Wednesday. Mora will be introduced as the Rams coach at a news conference Monday.
He will come to Colorado State as the school is joining the Pac-12, and Weber has been bullish about the Rams being at the top end of the Group of 5 schools in terms of finances.
“I am truly humbled to join CSU as we transition to the Pac-12 Conference,” Mora said in a statement. “I am excited to meet the team and look forward to connecting with the former players. I can’t wait for our family to become part of the Northern Colorado community.”
Huskies athletic director David Benedict said in a statement Wednesday that Mora informed him Tuesday night that he had accepted the Rams’ job.
“We are grateful for Coach Mora’s contributions to UConn over the past four seasons. He took on the challenge of rebuilding our football program and delivered results that exceeded expectations,” Benedict said. “… Coach Mora brought energy and a winning culture back to UConn football and put our program back on the national stage.”
Mora is coming off back-to-back nine-win seasons at UConn, a school that hadn’t had one since 2007. Mora led UConn to three bowl seasons in his four years there; the school had been to only one bowl game in the previous 11 years.
He will be Colorado State’s fourth coach since 2019, as it has churned through Mike Bobo, Steve Addazio and Jay Norvell. It fired Norvell last month midway through his fourth season. The school has played in only one bowl game since 2017.
Mora brings extensive coaching experience to Fort Collins, including six seasons as the head coach at UCLA. He won eight or more games in four of those years and has a 73-53 overall record across his 10 seasons as a college head coach.
He also had two stints as an NFL head coach, in Seattle and Atlanta. Mora had nearly two decades of experience on NFL staffs as an assistant coach and coordinator before becoming a head coach in Atlanta in 2004.
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