Fresno State is near formally naming Southern California assistant head coach Matt Entz as its new head coach.
Entz guided FCS energy North Dakota State to 2 nationwide championships earlier than becoming a member of the USC employees after final season.
Fresno State hasn’t formally introduced Entz’s hiring, however Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley made it clear Entz is departing.
“When you’ve got a extremely high quality employees, and you’ve got actually good folks in your employees, you are gonna have guys that get alternatives to maneuver on, and I believe we’re completely satisfied for Coach Entz first,” Riley instructed reporters Wednesday. “School soccer head teaching jobs are actually actually onerous to get, and I believe it is all the time an indication of a wholesome program, the place packages are wanting to return in and rent your folks, significantly for head teaching roles.
“He did an ideal job for us, made us higher, made me higher, was an ideal rent, an enormous a part of what was one of the vital, statistically, improved defenses within the nation. I want he and (his spouse) Brenda the very best.”
Entz, 52, went 60-11 from 2019-23 at North Dakota State. The Bison have been nationwide champions in 2019 and 2021.
Entz took the job at USC to bolster his resume in hopes of touchdown an FBS head teaching job. He was linebackers coach along with his assistant head coach duties of overseeing the protection.
Entz will exchange Tim Skipper, who guided Fresno State to a 6-6 document this season because the interim coach. Skipper took over after Jeff Tedford stepped down in mid-July because of well being issues.
–Subject Stage Media
