{"id":321997,"date":"2025-11-30T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:11:07","slug":"southern-university-hires-marshall-faulk-as-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321997\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern University hires Marshall Faulk as next head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk has parlayed one year of college coaching as an assistant into a head-coaching job.<\/p>\n<p>Southern University has announced that it has hired Faulk as the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SouthernUsports\/status\/1994948122867532066?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">school\u2019s new head coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Faulk, 52, spent 2025 as the running backs coach at Colorado, with fellow Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference has been set for Monday, December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Faulk, the second overall pick in the 1994 draft, played for the Colts and Rams. He was the NFL offensive rookie of the year, a three-time NFL offensive player of the year, the 2000 NFL MVP, a three-time first-team All-Pro, a three-time second-team All-Pro, and a seven-time Pro Bowler. He won a Super Bowl ring in 1999 with the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a member of the Colts\u2019 Ring of Honor. His number, 28, was retired by the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>Faulk succeeds Terrence Graves at Southern, which ended a nine-game losing streak on Saturday with a season-ending win over Grambling State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk has parlayed one year of college coaching as an assistant into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-321997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}