Bowling Inexperienced prolonged a proposal to Tennessee State‘s Eddie George to be its subsequent head soccer coach, sources advised ESPN on Saturday.
There’s mutual curiosity as the edges stay in dialogue. George was one in every of three finalists interviewed Friday.
George is a former Heisman Trophy winner at Ohio State and has emerged as a profitable head coach within the FCS at Tennessee State. This previous season, he led this system to the FCS playoffs and a share of the OVC-Huge South title, the varsity’s first league title in soccer since 1999.
Bowling Inexperienced is seeking to substitute Scot Loeffler, who left to change into the quarterbacks coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. George would probably return to the state of Ohio, the place he received the Heisman Trophy in 1995 and ran for 3,768 yards over 4 seasons with the Buckeyes.
He went on to star within the NFL for 9 seasons, speeding for greater than 10,000 yards. He was a first-round decide of the Houston Oilers and made his identify by taking part in seven seasons in Nashville for the Titans. The Titans have retired his jersey, as he is the franchise’s all-time main rusher.
Tennessee State employed George regardless of his lack of conventional teaching expertise, with the varsity president on the time calling the transfer “the correct alternative and funding” for the way forward for TSU. George has labored as an actor and entrepreneur and earned an MBA from Northwestern.
George paid again the administration’s religion by constructing Tennessee State right into a winner, together with a 9-4 season in 2024 that culminated in an FCS playoff look. Tennessee State misplaced to Montana within the first spherical. That marked TSU’s first FCS playoff bid since 2013.
George’s rent at TSU continued the pattern of former star gamers being employed at traditionally Black schools and universities. Jackson State made the most important splash in hiring Deion Sanders, who went on to a profitable stint at Colorado. Each Michael Vick’s rent at Norfolk State and DeSean Jackson’s rent at Delaware State continued that pattern within the present hiring cycle.
Bowling Inexperienced has change into one of many high teaching springboards this era, with City Meyer, Dave Clawson and Dino Babers all advancing from the varsity to energy convention jobs. Loeffler went 27-41 over six seasons, a run that included three straight bowl video games the previous three seasons.