Charles Huff only got to Southern Miss a year ago. But another Group of Five opportunity was too great to pass up.
Huff is reportedly going to become the next head coach at Memphis, who saw former head coach Ryan Silverfield head to Arkansas just a week ago. The move makes sense for the former USM and Marshall coach, who has experience in the state of Tennessee.
It also makes sense from a financial perspective. Though the details of Huff’s contract have not yet been widely publicized, he received $950,000 in total pay in 2025 at USM, according to USA Today, and Silverfield received $2.3 million.
Huff is 39-25 in the FBS as a head coach. That’s mostly from his four years at Marshall, as he went 7-5 in one year at Southern Miss.
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The Marshall Thundering Herd went 9-3 during the 2024 regular season before defeating Louisiana in the Sun Belt title game. Huff also led Marshall to four consecutive bowl appearances, and the Golden Eagles are bowl-eligible this year.
Huff was a well-respected assistant coach and recruiter before taking over at Marshall.
During his career, he has mostly coached running backs. And within the past decade, he’s mentored some great ones like Saquon Barkley of Penn State and Najee Harris and Brian Robinson Jr. of Alabama.
Huff was an assistant head coach and running backs coach at Alabama from 2019-20. The year before, he was an assistant head coach, running backs coach, and run game coordinator at Mississippi State.
He was a running backs coach and special teams coordinator at Penn State from 2014-17. He also worked with RBs at Western Michigan in 2013, and he was an assistant running backs coach at the pro level for the Buffalo Bills in 2012.
He was an offensive quality control coach for Vanderbilt in 2011 after coaching offensive linemen for a year at Hampton, which is where he played and started 12 games at center as a senior.
He was an assistant O-line coach at Maryland in 2009. He began his coaching career at Tennessee State, first working with offensive linemen in 2006 and then becoming a tight ends coach and special teams coordinator from 2007-08.
