Marshall coach Charles Huff is set to take another job in the Sun Belt.
Sources told Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger that Huff is expected to become the new coach at Southern Miss.
Marshall won the Sun Belt championship game on Saturday over Louisiana to move to 10-3 on the season. Huff would be the second coach to move on shortly after winning a conference title game. Hours after Ohio won the MAC title game, it was reported that Tim Albin was heading to Charlotte.
The Eagles went 1-11 in 2024 under Will Hall. Southern Miss failed to beat an FBS team during the season and lost 37-3 to Marshall on Nov. 9.
Huffs future at Marshall had been in doubt for much of the season. He entered 2024 in the fourth year of a four-year contract he signed at the start of the 2021 season. He had said over the summer that he expected a new contract to happen, but as the season went on and there wasnt a new deal, it became clear that Huff could end up leaving.
That didnt affect Marshall, especially over the second half of the season. The Thundering Herd lost to Virginia Tech and Ohio State in September and were 3-3 after a 24-23 loss to Georgia Southern. Since that loss to the Eagles, Marshalls reeled off six straight victories including a 35-33 win over James Madison in the final week of the season to win the Sun Belts East Division before taking the conference title.
Huff was making $755,500 in 2024 according to USA Todays salary database while Hall was making $824,000. Just 16 public school coaches made less than Huff did in 2024 and Louisiana-Monroes Bryant Vincent was the only Sun Belt coach with a lower salary.
Before coming to Marshall, Huff was an assistant at Penn State, Mississippi State and Alabama. He was the Crimson Tides running backs coach for two seasons in 2019 and 2020 and had coached running backs for both the Nittany Lions and Bulldogs.
Marshall was 31-20 in Huffs four seasons with the school. Southern Miss, meanwhile has been to just one bowl in the past five seasons and went 4-20 over the past two seasons.