Getty ImagesSpeculation surfaced earlier in the week that Eddie Gran would be leaving his post at Florida State for parts unknown.
Now, those parts are officially known as Cincinnati announced that Gran has been hired as Tommy Tuberville‘s offensive coordinator. Tuberville, who left Texas Tech a week ago to take the Bearcats job, and Gran have an extensive coaching history together, with the former serving on the latter’s staffs at Auburn and Ole Miss for a combined 14 years.
“I’m pleased and excited Eddie has agreed to join us here in Cincinnati,” Tuberville said in a statement. “We have a lot of history together and have won a lot of football games at Auburn and Mississippi. He’s has proven himself to be a great coach and outstanding recruiter. He knows this area well from his previous coaching stop here so it was a natural fit.”
Gran has spent the last three of his 26 years at the collegiate level with the Seminoles, where he served as associate head coach, running backs coach and special teams coordinator.
With Gran’s departure, three assistants have left Jimbo Fisher‘s FSU staff in the past two weeks. Defensive coordinator Mark Stoops was named Kentucky’s head coach, taking defensive assistant D.J. Eliot along as his defensive coordinator.
Are we going to have anyone left for the bowl game?!?
And next is Jimbo Fisher leaving!
Alright Eddie, join his coaching staff but don’t go out to dinner with him.
Cincinnati is assembling a very nice coaching staff…just as the Big East is on the verge of total irrelevance.
TT is a piece of crap.Cant wait until the bIG eAST goes belly up.Then trash like TT will have know where to go.
lol
Number of coaches on FSU’s staff at the time of the game=how many touchdowns NIU scores on them.
My guess is 3, and one of those in garbage time, meaning another coach leaves afterwards!
What exactly is going on at UC? How did they becaome a destination for top coaches?
It’s not a negative for FSU to lose these coaches, it’s a positive that Fisher assembled such a great staff.
This will make FSU very attractive to practically anyone who is looking to advance their careers.
Any reasonable College football fan can see this.
Reasonable fans yes, but if FSU blows this game to NIU, who is in their first bowl appearance in the schools history, then the recruits wont be so understanding.
BTW mauldawg:
The English language is beautiful…you should learn it.
FSU has now entered a “panic buying” mode.
Desperate times, Hole fans.