{"id":542068,"date":"2026-03-24T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:36:08","slug":"cincinnati-set-to-hire-utah-states-jerrod-calhoun-as-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542068\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati set to hire Utah State&#8217;s Jerrod Calhoun as next head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/cincinnati-bearcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati<\/a> is set to hire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/utah-state-aggies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah State<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/jerrod-calhoun-134577\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerrod Calhoun<\/a> as its next head coach, sources tell On3. He emerged as the leading candidate in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Calhoun is a former Cincinnati student assistant under Bob Huggins. The Bearcats have committed to funding their NIL payroll at a high level, with sources estimating it will be over $10 million. Calhoun has led the Aggies to two consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, including a first-round win last week over Villanova.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/On3\/status\/2032516036596003038\" rel=\"nofollow\">fired<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/wes-miller-132068\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wes Miller<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month and formalized his exit last week. Miller did not make the NCAA tournament once in five seasons with the Bearcats. Calhoun is expected to return them to annual tourney contenders. Not since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mick-cronin-132290\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mick Cronin\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0tenure has Cincinnati made back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2019 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0East Liverpool, Ohio, native was a student assistant under Huggins before rejoining him as the director of basketball operations at West Virginia. Calhoun was hired at D-II\u00a0Fairmont State\u00a0in 2012, posting a 124\u201338 record. He was hired at\u00a0Youngstown State\u00a0in 2017 and posted two 20-win seasons before arriving at Utah State in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Calhoun has a buyout believed to be worth around $4 million. He is 55\u201315 in two seasons with the Aggies. Utah State exited the NCAA tournament on Sunday night with a loss to No. 1 seed Arizona in the West Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati is set to hire Utah State head coach Jerrod Calhoun as its next head coach, sources tell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[242447,99],"class_list":["post-542068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-jerrod-calhoun","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542068","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=542068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}