{"id":428927,"date":"2025-12-06T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428927\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:11:10","slug":"memphis-focused-on-southern-miss-charles-huff-working-to-finalize-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428927\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis focused on Southern Miss&#8217; Charles Huff, working to finalize deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/tiger-sports-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis<\/a><\/strong> has focused on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/big-gold-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Miss\u2019<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/charles-huff-132038\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Huff<\/a><\/strong> as its next head coach, sources tell On3\u2019s Chris Low, Pete Nakos and Brett McMurphy. The two parties are working to finalize a deal. Huff went 7-5 in his first year with the Golden Eagles, a season after the program went 1-11. <\/p>\n<p>The former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/marshall-thundering-herd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marshall<\/a><\/strong> head coach and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alabama<\/a><\/strong> assistant is 39\u201325 as an FBS head coach. Huff is set to succeed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/ryan-silverfield-134323\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Silverfield<\/a><\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/On3sports\/status\/1995155982968582285\/photo\/1\">accepted<\/a> the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/arkansas-razorbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkansas<\/a><\/strong> job on Sunday. Silverfield was 50\u201324 in six seasons at Memphis, succeeding Ryan Silverfield.<\/p>\n<p>Huff has emerged as a proven winner in the Sun Belt. Marshall won the Sun Belt conference title last year with Huff. He stepped in this year at Southern Miss, bringing a large piece of his Marshall roster with him, and won immediately. <\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the Golden Eagles did not win a game in conference play. The former Marshall head coach led the program to high-profile wins over Notre Dame and Virginia Tech. Huff is a 42-year-old former Alabama and Penn State assistant. He also has ties in Tennessee, having broken into coaching at Tennessee State and spent a year on James Franklin\u2019s staff at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis has consistently been one of the top programs in the American Conference. FedEx committed $25 million over five years in NIL back in 2024. The last time the Tigers finished a season with a losing record was in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story and will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis has focused on Southern Miss\u2019 Charles Huff as its next head coach, sources tell On3\u2019s Chris Low,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[199480,1318,1317,1315,1316,199481,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-428927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-charles-huff","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-ryan-silverfield","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115673031591465015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}