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colorado Running backs coach Marshall Faulk, pro and College Football Hall of Famer, is expected to become head coach. Southern UniversitySources confirmed this to ESPN on Wednesday.
Faulk, a New Orleans native, will return to his home state after his first season coaching college football, where he worked under fellow Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders at Colorado. Southern, an HBCU school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, fired coach Terrence Graves last month after a 1-6 start.
Faulk, 52, won NFL MVP honors in 2000, was named NFL Offensive Player of the Year three times and made seven Pro Bowls. He had 12,279 career rushing yards and 100 touchdowns, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
Faulk was also a two-time All-America running back at San Diego State and entered the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
In August, Faulk told ESPN why he decided to enter college coaching despite being asked to do so several times after his playing career. He spent time working as an analyst for NFL Network until 2017.
“I’ve been offered a job,” Faulk said. “If it wasn’t for Coach Prime, I wouldn’t even try it. It wasn’t even on my to-do list. When I played, I put in crazy hours, like player and coach hours, to become a student of that game. And when I walked away from it, I couldn’t believe how much time I had invested in the game.”
Colorado concludes its season at Kansas State on Saturday.
WAFB television first reported Southern’s expected hiring of Faulk.
