Overview
- Multiple outlets report the Pro Football Hall of Famer has accepted the job, marking his first college head-coaching role.
- The agreement is reported as a three-year contract with an option, with a news conference anticipated early next week.
- Faulk spent this season as Colorado’s running backs coach in his first college coaching post, creating a vacancy on Deion Sanders’ staff.
- Southern fired Terrence Graves in October after a 1-6 start and played out the season at 1-10 under interim coach Fred McNair.
- A New Orleans native, Faulk returns to Louisiana and extends the recent pattern of prominent former NFL players taking HBCU head-coaching jobs.