After finishing the season 1-11, multiple sources inside the Marshall athletic department confirm that Southern Miss is expected to announce current Thundering Herd frontman Charles Huff as the school’s 23rd head coach.
Huff, whose current team clinched a Sun Belt East Division title game appearance with an overtime win over James Madison on Saturday, is reportedly moving on to coach in Hattiesburg. An announcement could come as early as Monday, but the timeline is muddied with the title bout set for December 7.
In four years at Marshall, Huff has led the Thundering Herd to a 31-20 record, including a 9-3 mark through the 2024 regular season and the first Sun Belt championship game appearance in the program’s history.
BREAKING: Marshall’s Charles Huff is expected to be announced as the new head coach at Southern Miss as early as Monday. pic.twitter.com/wHwKcWvjUv
— SuperTalk News (@SuperTalkNews) December 1, 2024
Previously, the Maryland native coached running backs and worked as the assistant head coach from 2019-2020 under Nick Saban at Alabama. Huff made his way to Tuscaloosa via a single season in Starkville under former Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead. Assistant coach positions at Penn State, Western Michigan, and in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills dot Huff’s resume.
Amid initial reports of the move, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports issued an apparent denial from Huff:
Reached out to Charles Huff re: the reports about him accepting the head coaching job at Southern Miss, which he said aren’t accurate. The full rundown of what he said: pic.twitter.com/9FiK2TrND8
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) December 1, 2024
After Huff’s statement, sources continued to confirm the move would be made.
Considering the flurry of names that were brought up as potential candidates, Southern Miss tabbing Huff as its next lead man would come as a surprise to many. Reeling in a division title-winning head coach from a conference mate would reveal a major push from a program that is just 58-101 since 2012.
