Huff gone.

[PearlRiverCoDawg]

Headed to Memphis

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Headed to Memphis

Can’t blame him for wanting to get out of Hardy Street High

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

They don't make em like Jeff Bower anymore.

 

[Dawg1976]

Headed to Memphis

Moving to the next stepping stone.

 

[PearlRiverCoDawg]

Moving to the next stepping stone.

As is tradition

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

Is he taking most of his players with him like he did when he left Marshall?

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Merlinz to H'burg.

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Headed to Memphis

One year at USM…is there no sense of obligation/commitment/loyalty to a place any more?

 

[Dawg Raid]

One year at USM…is there no sense of obligation/commitment/loyalty to a place any more?

If you’re in his shoes you move on. USM could go 2-10 next year and then his choices are gone

 

[TorchingTime]

One year at USM…is there no sense of obligation/commitment/loyalty to a place any more?

Ask Nick Zimmerman, the moving truck might still be at his place.

 

[patdog]

One year at USM…is there no sense of obligation/commitment/loyalty to a place any more?

But we cant fire a bad coach without giving him 4 years because it would look bad. **

 

[horshack.sixpack]

They don't make em like Jeff Bower anymore.

Has to be one of the most regrettable parting of ways ever. They’ve been wandering in the desert since.

 

[11thEagleFan]

Has to be one of the most regrettable parting of ways ever. They’ve been wandering in the desert since.

I got curious and looked up how many games Bower won while I was at USM. 7, 7, 9, and 7. And those dummies ran him off. We would kill for that nowadays.

 

[8dog]

One year at USM…is there no sense of obligation/commitment/loyalty to a place any more?

Probably realized if you can’t bring your team from another school it’s a tough gig

 

[HotMop]

Moving to the next stepping stone.

Isn't that us?

 

[Dawg1976]

Isn't that us?

Yep. Maybe one step up to the next one.

 

[She Mate Me]

Has to be one of the most regrettable parting of ways ever. They’ve been wandering in the desert since.

I clearly remember thinking at the time that they just let a ridiculously over ambitious AD try to make a name for himself by running off a very good, very loyal HC. Idiotic.

 

[bulldoghair]

I know this sounds risky- but if I was southern miss I would think hard about hiring Columbia High School head coach, Chip Bilderback. His wife is the women’s basketball coach at USM, and he’s coached junior college level. He wouldn’t be the norm but he’s familiar with recruiting and also his wife is too. He’s been successful where ever he’s been and sacrificed for his wife’s career. Here’s the biggest thing- if he’s successful he’d never leave.

 

[MrKotter]

Memphis out-hired Arkansas

 

[Irondawg]

I'll be shocked if they don't try Hugh Freeze

 

[Perd Hapley]

I'll be shocked if they don't try Hugh Freeze

Holy shít. That actually makes soooooo much sense.

I mean, I’d bet a lot of money that it happens within 3 days….unless his health situation has gotten worse.

He’s a USM alum, nobody else wants him, definitely would be the biggest name in the Sun Belt, and I’d presume that he’d be a hit with donors and recruits.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

I'll be shocked if they don't try Hugh Freeze

Can they afford both a Canbrake and Timberton membership?

 

[HotMop]

I clearly remember thinking at the time that they just let a ridiculously over ambitious AD try to make a name for himself by running off a very good, very loyal HC. Idiotic.

And it got that idiot fired.

 

[HotMop]

Holy shít. That actually makes soooooo much sense.

I mean, I’d bet a lot of money that it happens within 3 days….unless his health situation has gotten worse.

He’s a USM alum, nobody else wants him, definitely would be the biggest name in the Sun Belt, and I’d presume that he’d be a hit with donors and recruits.

It'd be a great hire for them, so it's not Freeze.

 

[The Peeper]

But we cant fire a bad coach without giving him 4 years because it would look bad. **

Yeah we've got to let him cut his teeth and learn to be a coach while we suffer through horrible seasons while paying him $4M a year

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Coach O to USM*
It's going to be Blake Anderson if I'm guessing

 

[BreckyBratt]

Isn't that us?

Isn't that all the Mississippi schools at this point?

 

[QuadrupleOption]

They don't make em like Jeff Bower anymore.

I was living in Hattiesburg when they fired him and thought they were dumb as Hell to do that. The guy was loyal to them and won games, even through changes in the recruiting footprint. Every coach they've had since has not really done anything there that Bower didn't accomplish aside from Fedora who promptly bailed.

I really hate it for them - they were such reasonable fans back in the 90s when we wouldn't play them********

 

[Mr. Cook]

Has to be one of the most regrettable parting of ways ever. They’ve been wandering in the desert since.

And will likely be there for longer than 40 years****

 

[was21]

I'll be shocked if they don't try Hugh Freeze

Southern should hire TC Taylor at Jackson college. He's 'a good corch