Notre Dame will open the home portion of the 2023 football season against Tennessee State. It will be Notre Dame’s first game in program history against an FCS program.
I’ll have more thoughts on this later but initially I’m not thrilled. I will say that if it is ending that I’m happy to see it occur against a Historically Black College and University like Tennessee State is, but that aside, I was a fan of the Irish having never previously played an FCS team.
The Ohio State connection will be strong come Sept. 2, 2023 as Marcus Freeman will be coaching the Irish and the [autotag]Heisman Trophy[/autotag] winning Buckeye [autotag]Eddie George[/autotag] is currently the Tennessee State head coach.
Lots of college athletes around the country have already begun racking up endorsement deals after the NCAA made a temporary policy change on name, image and likeness policies.
Their new NIL rules allowing players to profit off of their own likenesses. Schools won’t be paying the players, but they can finally make money. Many of them are taking advantage of that.
But no one has gotten off to a better start than Tennessee State incoming Freshman Hercy Miller.
Miller — who is also Master P’s son — signed an endorsement deal to become a brand ambassador for the tech company Web Apps America. He’ll rake in a cool $2 million (!!!!!), per Front Office Sports.
Hercy Miller, incoming Tennessee State freshman and son of Master P, is signing deal with Web Apps America…
… for $2 million 🤯
Miller will be a brand ambassador for the tech company, who's committed to supporting HBCU leaders. pic.twitter.com/LRfDyZ27Yf
Eddie George is putting together quite a coaching staff at Tennessee State which will include former Ohio State players.
Since being named head football coach at Tennessee State University, Eddie George has been busy trying to get the program in position to succeed. He landed a high-profile recruit from Texas A&M in the transfer porter recently and now he is putting together one heck of a coaching staff.
George has added some big names on the offensive and defensive side of the ball naming Brandon Fisher, son of former Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher as defensive coordinator, and Hue Jackson as his offensive coordinator. Jackson of course didn’t have a great run as a head coach in Cleveland but was very successful in Cincinnati as the OC.
George has also brought in some former Ohio State Buckeyes to round out his coaching staff. It was announced that Richard McNutt will be the defensive backs coach and Pepe Pearson has been named the running backs coach.
Tennessee State HC and NFL great Eddie George personally extending an offer to four-star DB Myles Pollard (@me1espollard), who will spend some time with the Michigan staff today. pic.twitter.com/QuiIilWln9
McNutt played for the Buckeyes in the early 2000s and has spent time coaching at Toledo, Kent State, Northern Illinois, and one year with the Browns in the NFL.
Pearson was teammates with George at OSU. He took the lead role in the backfield for the Bucks in 1996, the year after Eddie won the Heisman and rushed for over 1400 yards. Pearson has spent the previous five seasons as the running backs coach at Marshall University.
George is putting together quite a staff at TSU. With this kind of coaching talent, it may not be long before the Tigers are competing for championships. And we love to see a little scarlet and gray sprinkled across the college coaching landscape.
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Eddie George is putting together quite a coaching staff at Tennessee State which will include former Ohio State players.
Since being named head football coach at Tennessee State University, Eddie George has been busy trying to get the program in position to succeed. He landed a high-profile recruit from Texas A&M in the transfer porter recently and he is putting together one heck of a coaching staff.
George has added some big names on the offensive and defensive side of the ball naming Brandon Fisher, son of former Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher as defensive coordinator, and Hue Jackson as his offensive coordinator. Jackson of course didn’t have a great run as a head coach in Cleveland, but was very successful in Cincinnati as the OC.
George has also brought in some former Ohio State Buckeyes to round out his coaching staff. It was announced that Richard McNutt will be the defensive backs coach and Pepe Pearson has been named the running backs coach.
Tennessee State HC and NFL great Eddie George personally extending an offer to four-star DB Myles Pollard (@me1espollard), who will spend some time with the Michigan staff today. pic.twitter.com/QuiIilWln9
McNutt played for the Buckeyes in the early 2000s and has spent time coaching at Toledo, Kent State, Northern Illinois and one year with the Browns in the NFL.
Pearson was teammates with George at OSU. He took the lead role in the backfield for the Bucks in 1996, the year after Eddie won the Heisman and rushed for over 1,400 yards. Pearson has spent the previous five seasons as the running backs coach at Marshall University.
George is putting together quite a staff at TSU. With this kind of coaching talent, it may not be long before the Tigers are competing for championships. And we love to see a little scarlet and gray sprinkled across the college coaching landscape.
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Former Ohio State football legend, Eddie George is now the head coach of Tennessee State. Can the former Buckeye create success?
If you are not aware of who Eddie George is, than you are not a true Ohio State football fan. Just to provide a brief recap, George is one of the greatest running backs in college football history who earned the Heisman Trophy in 1995 along with the Walter Camp Award, Maxwell Award, Doak Walker Award, the Big Ten Most Valuable Player Award, and of course, All-American honors.
As many are aware, George went onto a very successful NFL career, where a majority of it was spent with the Tennessee Titans. Apparently,
Tennessee Titans great and former running back Eddie George will reportedly become the next head coach at Tennessee State.
The news comes from Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, who notes George will be taking over for current head coach, Rod Reed, after more than a decade with the HBCU football program.
This will be George’s first foray into coaching since he officially retired from the NFL back in 2006 following a sensational career with the Titans.
George spent eight seasons with the Oilers/Titans and was part of the only Titans team to make it to a Super Bowl when Tennessee lost to the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.
The 47-year-old was voted to four Pro Bowls, was a First-Team All-Pro and was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1996. He had his number retired by the Titans back in 2019.
Former Tennessee Titans RB Eddie George will be new coach at Tennessee State, sources told @Stadium. TSU, currently coached by Rod Reed, plays Southeast Missouri today in final game of spring. George, who has no coaching experience, is 1st major hire by AD Mikki Allen
George was also an outstanding college football player. During his final two seasons at Ohio State, he racked up 3,369 yards and 36 touchdowns and won the Heisman Trophy in 1995.
One thing we know George will do well as a head coach is motivating his team, as his hype videos before Titans games are enough to make us run through a wall for him.
Peerless Price joins in-state college coaching staff.
Tennessee national championship wide receiver Peerless Price is launching his coaching career at Tennessee State.
He will serve as a volunteer coach at Tennessee State for the 2021 spring season. Tennessee State kicks off the season Feb. 21 against Jacksonville State.
“Peerless will be a great addition to the staff,” Tennessee State head coach Rod Reed said in a press release. “He has played the game at a high level collegiately and professionally. He will provide a wealth of knowledge to this staff and we’re glad to have him aboard.”
“With that in mind I just feel like I need to invest and prepare the next generation of young people. Preparing them for the game of life and what it takes to be a successful athlete and human being.”
Catana Starks, the the first Black woman to coach a men’s NCAA Division I golf team, died Sunday in Nashville. She was 75.
Catana Starks, who made history in 1986 at Tennessee State when she became the first Black woman to coach a men’s NCAA Division I golf team, died Sunday in Nashville. She was 75.
Starks’ trailblazing story was documented in the film “From The Rough” in 2011.
In 2005 Starks led TSU to the National Minority Golf Championship. The team shot a record-setting 840 as a unit. It was Starks’ final year as the coach.
Starks, a Mobile, Alabama native, was a TSU alumnus and classmate of Olympic track great Wilma Rudolph.
In 1986, when TSU joined the Ohio Valley Conference former athletics director Bill Thomas dropped the schools swimming program and added men’s golf.
Starks was the school’s swim team coach at the time. The swim team was not sanctioned by the NCAA.
Starks, who earned her doctorate degree during her time as coach, also served as head of TSU’s Human Performance and Sports Sciences department.
During her time as TSU’s golf coach, Starks guided several successful players including Canadian Sean Foley, who went on to become Tigers Woods’ swing coach, Sam Puryear, who became the first Black men’s head golf coach in a major conference (Michigan State, 2008) and is now the coach at Howard, and Robert Dinwiddie, who was an All-American at TSU and went on to become a member of the European Tour.
Arrangements have not yet been announced.
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Both Arlington Hambright and Lachavious Simmons are still fairly unknown but show potential to contribute at the NFL level.
The Chicago Bears’ final two selections in the 2020 NFL Draft, OL Arlington Hambright and Lachavious Simmons, were picked in consecutive selections in the seventh round to round out the team’s draft picks.
Both players are still fairly unknown but show potential to contribute at the NFL level. They also got to this point while traveling on different paths. Hambright rose from junior college, landing at Oklahoma State before finishing his college career at Colorado. Simmons, however, played his entire career at FCS Tennessee State.
Now, the two are teammates in Chicago and here are a few things to know about the guys up front.
1. Simmons trained by throwing hay bales
The newest offensive lineman has something common with new teammate Cody Whitehair: Both players grew up on farms and trained by throwing hay bales. Simmons told Bears reporters he would toss hay bales as part of his chores and developed strength from it.
Lachavious Simmons grew up on a farm and developed strength with the Cody Whitehair workout: throwing hay bales.
The Bears closed out the 2020 NFL Draft with a pair of offensive line selections in round 7.
The Chicago Bears and general manager Ryan Pace finished the 2020 NFL Draft with a pair of back-to-back draft picks in the seventh round, selecting offensive linemen Arlington Hambright from Colorado and Lachavious Simmons from Tennessee State.
Hambright and Lachavious, picked with the 226th and 227th picks respectively, will compete for roster spots on the offensive line. Hambright worked his way up from junior college to Oklahoma State before transferring to Colorado. Simmons, meanwhile, played 12 games last season for Tennessee State in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
While they’re both seventh-round picks, fans had their opinions on the Bears’ final draft selections, including feedback on their unique names.
Doing a little bit of research on Hambright, he apparently did 2 years Juco, then redshirted 2017 and started 1st 6 games at Oklahoma State in 2018 before getting hurt. Injury led to him losing his job, so he did grad transfer to Colorado and was starting LT all year.
Lachavious Simmons (Chicago Bears, 7th Round, No. 227) is the first Tennessee State #NFLDraft pick since 2015, but the school's fifth offensive lineman to be selected since 2014 (the Tigers had two each in 2014 and '15).
