South Alabama is anticipated to advertise offensive coordinator Main Applewhite to fill its vacant teaching place, 247Sports experiences. Applewhite served below former coach Kane Wommack for the previous three seasons till Wommack left to turn out to be Alabama’s defensive coordinator.

Applewhite, 45, helped assemble one of many high offenses within the Solar Belt this season. The Jaguars averaged over 33 factors and four hundred and forty yards per sport — each of which ranked close to the highest of the convention. South Alabama capped the 2023 season with a 59-10 win over Jap Michigan within the 68 Ventures Bowl. 

This is able to mark Applewhite’s second alternative to steer a program. He compiled a 15-11 total report at Houston from 2017-18. 

Applewhite performed at Texas from 1998-2001, setting a number of program data he nonetheless owns to at the present time. After a quick stint within the NFL with the New England Patriots, he returned to the Longhorns to function a graduate assistant. He was employed by Syracuse in 2005 because the group’s quarterback coach and was the offensive coordinator at Rice and Alabama earlier than returning to his alma mater from 2008-13. He labored below Tom Herman offensive coordinator at Houston from 2015-17, then took over the Cougars program when Herman left for the Texas job. After Houston, he labored as an analyst on Nick Saban’s Alabama employees from 2019-20 earlier than he was plucked by the Jaguars in 2021. 

The huge ripple impact is centered round former Alabama coach Nick Saban’s retirement. The Crimson Tide tabbed Washington coach Kalen DeBoer to succeed him. One among DeBoer’s first strikes was to poach Wommack kind South Alabama. DeBoer and Wommack labored collectively at Indiana throughout the 2019 season.