Per Joe Schaad at ESPN, Mike Haywood is the new Head Coach at Miami of Ohio. I’ll have more later.
Miami of Ohio will name Notre Dame offensive coordinator Mike Haywood as its head coach on Tuesday, sources familiar with the situation said.
The hiring of Haywood will bring the number of African-American football coaches in the Bowl Championship Subdivision to six of 119 programs. He will succeed Shane Montgomery, who resigned last month.
According to two sources close to Haywood, he has agreed to contract terms with the university.
The RedHawks were 17-31 during Montgomery’s four seasons as head coach and went 2-10 this season.
Haywood will join Turner Gill at Buffalo, Randy Shannon at Miami, Fla., Mike Locksley at New Mexico, Kevin Sumlin at Houston and Ron English at Eastern Michigan as the only black coaches in college football’s top tier.
Haywood, a Notre Dame graduate, had been offensive coordinator for the Fighting Irish since 2005. He previously worked as an assistant at Texas, LSU, Ball State, Ohio University, Army and Minnesota. In 2005, he was named NCAA Division 1-A assistant coach of the year by the American Football Coaches Association.
Joe Schad covers college football for ESPN.
