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Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk is set to become the new head coach at Southern University, according to reports.
Faulk, who has just wrapped up his first season coaching college football under fellow Hall of Famer Deion Sanders at Colorado, will head back to his home state of Louisiana to replace fired Jaguars coach Terrence Graves, local television station WAFB9 first revealed on Wednesday.
An official announcement is slated for Monday, December 1, after a prominent university donor reportedly spearheaded the move to bring the New Orleans native in.
Faulk is one of the greatest running backs in NFL history after claiming the MVP award in 2000 and winning the Super Bowl that year with the formerly-named St. Louis Rams.
He also became a three-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year and seven-time Pro Bowler over the course of a career which saw him rack up 12,279 rushing yards and 100 touchdowns.
In college, Faulk was a two-time All-America running back at San Diego State. He entered the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017, six years after being inducted into the Pro Football equivalent.
NFL legend Marshall Faulk is set to become the new head coach at Southern University
Faulk, a Pro and College Football Hall of Fame running back, won the Super Bowl with the Rams
The 52-year-old is poised to take over as head coach at Southern, an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) school in Baton Rouge, after spending a year working under NFL icon Sanders in Colorado.
Last month the Jaguars parted company with Graves following a miserable 1-6 start to the season. His dismissal came less than a year after he guided the team to an eight-win season and a SWAC championship game appearance.
After losing six of their first seven games this year, Southern is now 1-10 and will conclude the regular season against Grambling State this Saturday in the Bayou Classic.
Faulk, who initially worked as an analyst for NFL Network after retiring, opened up on his move into college football back in August.
'I've been offered jobs,' he told ESPN. 'If it wasn't for Coach Prime [Sanders], I would not even try this. This wasn't even on my list of things to do in the least way.
'I put crazy hours in when I played, like player and coach's hours in, to become the student of the game that I was. And when I walked away from it, I couldn't believe how much time I invested into the game.'
