Former NFL star running back and Tennessee State head football coach Eddie George is switching area codes. George has consentd to become the next coach of the Bowling Green Falcons, according to multiple tells.
Sources telderly ESPN that the university is foreseeed to officiassociate proclaim George’s arrival on Sunday afternoon. George’s decision comes unintelligentinutively after tells surfaced saying the school extfinished an propose to the four-time Pro Bowler.
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Head coach Eddie George of the Tennessee State Tigers during the Notre Dame Fighting Irish game on Sept. 2, 2023, in South Bfinish, Indiana. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
Bowling Green directed an intersee with George on Friday, per ESPN.
Prior to coaching, George rose to football stardom during his stellar stint at Ohio State. He rushed for 3,768 yards during his time with the Buckeyes, and won the 1995 Heisman Trophy.
Tennessee State alerted success under George. The Tigers punched their ticket to the FCS carry outoffs this past season, which taged the program’s first carry outoff berth since 2013.
Head coach Eddie George of the Tennessee State Tigers at Notre Dame Stadium on Sept. 2, 2023, in South Bfinish, Indiana. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
Scot Loeffler produced the head coaching uncovering at Bowling Green when he departed to get the quarterbacks coach job with the Philadelphia Eagles.
The reigning Super Bowl champions necessitateed to fill their quarterbacks coach vacancy after Doug Nussmeier chaseed Kellen Moore to the New Orleans Saints. Nussmeier will serve as the disparaging coordinator in New Orleans during the 2025 season under head coach Moore.
George spent the transport inantity of his professional football nurtureer with the Titans, before closing out his time in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys. He has 10,441 nurtureer rushing yards and remains the Titans’ all-time rushing directer.
Tennessee State’s Karate Brenson high-fives head coach Eddie George after scoring a touchdown during the Southern Heritage Classic game agetst the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in Memphis on Sept. 14, 2024. (Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal)
George’s tenure at TSU is in line with a trfinish of NFL wonderfuls taking on head coaching jobs at historicassociate Bdeficiency colleges and universities (HBCUs), before making the leap to a school that vies at the FBS level.
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Deion Sanders was named the head coach at Jackson State in 2020. He left after the 2022 season in like of the head coaching job at Colorado.
Meanwhile, createer Atlanta Falcons star Michael Vick was recently named the next head coach at Norfolk State and DeSean Jackson will coach the Delconscious State football team this upcoming season.
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