Nearly a full month after making a change at head coach, it appear’s the MAC’s Miami is on the verge of filling that gaping hole in its football program.
Based on a series of tweets from Irish Illustrated, Miami’s search is all but over and an announcement will be made soon that Notre Dame offensive coordinator Chuck Martin is its new head coach. The website spoke to Martin shortly before he boarded the university’s private plane, presumably to head to Oxford to put the finishing touches on a deal and be officially introduced.
Chuck Martin on leaving Notre Dame for Miami: "Just a great opportunity from a head coaching standpoint."
— Pete Sampson (@PeteSampson_) December 3, 2013
Chuck Martin on the toughest part of leaving ND: "It’s the one place in the world that I love more than any other place in the world."
— Pete Sampson (@PeteSampson_) December 3, 2013
Miami athletic director David Sayler would only allow that he hopes Martin will be the hire.
Martin, who has spent the past four seasons with the Irish, will be taking his first head-coaching job at the FBS level. He was the head coach at Grand Valley State from 2004-09, replacing his current boss, Brian Kelly, at the Div. II program. Upon coming to the Irish in 2010, Martin spent his first two seasons in South Bend as defensive backs coach before moving to offense as coordinator.
2012 marked Martin’s first season as a coach on the offensive side of the ball at the collegiate level. He took over coordinating duties from Charley Molnar, who left to become the head coach at UMass.
Martin would be replacing Don Treadwell, who was fired in early October after two-plus seasons. The RedHawks recently completed an 0-12 season and have lost 16 straight, tied with Georgia State for the nation’s longest such streak.