For the second time today, a team is making a head coaching change.
Southern Miss is firing head coach Will Hall, sources tell 247Sports and CBS Sports. Earlier in the day, ECU fired head coach Mike Houston, which was the first in-season FBS head coach firing this year.
Hall, who was in his fourth season as Southern Miss’ head coach after being hired in December 2020, was just 4-15 the last two years after a 7-6 finish in 2022. That includes a 1-6 start to this season. The move comes after the Golden Eagles lost, 44-28, to Arkansas State on Saturday. It was Southern Miss’ fifth straight loss with all five losses coming by double-digit margins.
Prior to Southern Miss, Hall was Tulane’s offensive coordinator for two seasons. He was previously a head coach at West Georgia (2014-16) and West Alabama (2011-13) and tallied an overall record of 56-20 for those two programs but will end his time with the Golden Eagles with an overall mark of just 14-30.
After finishing with winning records 18 straight years from 1994-2011, Southern Miss has now gone without a winning record seven of the last 13 seasons, including three of the last four under Hall. The program hasn’t won more than seven games since the second year of Jay Hopson’s run as head coach in 2017 and hasn’t recorded more than eight victories since a 9-5 mark during current Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken’s final year as the Golden Eagles’ head coach in 2015. That was four years after Southern Miss recorded a program-record 12 wins under Larry Fedora, who then left for the head coaching job at North Carolina.
The Golden Eagles are now set to face 5-2 James Madison on Saturday.
ESPN first reported Hall’s firing.
