Wednesday, January 27, 2021 by Brendan Byrne (WMFE)
Josh Heupel introduced as UCF football s head coach in 2018 by Danny White. Both left the university for positions at the University of Tennessee. Photo: UCF / Alex Menendez
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UCF football coach Josh Heupel is leaving the Knights and joining Tennessee as the Volunteers’ new head coach.
The move follows the departure of UCF’s Athletic Director Danny White last week, who also moved to the University of Tennessee as its athletic director.
January 7, 2021
Dan Mullen found his first staff replacement of the winter 2020-21 cycle by hiring former Auburn defensive backs coach Wesley McGriff. Here is a quick summary of what he’s getting with the latest addition to the staff.
Coaching history
McGriff has 31 years of coaching under his belt, the last 20 of them either in power FBS conferences or the NFL. A native of Georgia, he worked at lower-division colleges in either his home state or Kentucky for the first 11 years of his career.
He got his SEC break moving from EKU to Kentucky for the 2001 season. After two seasons working for Guy Morriss there, he followed Morriss to Baylor for four years in Waco. He moved on to join Randy Shannon’s inaugural 2007 staff at Miami (FL) and remained for all four years of Shannon’s tenure. He then found his way to Vanderbilt for James Franklin’s first staff for a season in 2011. He was a running backs coach in his first year at UK but was a DBs coach thereafter. At Baylor and V