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Former HBCU HC joins FBS coaching staff

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Courtesy of South Alabama Athletics MOBILE, Ala. – South Alabama head football coach Major Applewhite has announced the hiring of Broderick Fobbs as the program’s new running backs coach. Fobbs was an HBCU football head coach at Grambling State University from 2014-2021. No stranger to the Sun Belt Conference, Fobbs comes to South Alabama by way of ULM where he coached the Warhawks’ running backs in 2023 and 2024. Fobbs’ star pupil at ULM was ru…

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Former HBCU national championship coach named assistant at FBS program

The first SWAC coach to win a Celebration Bowl has a job in the FBS. Broderick Fobbs, who led Grambling State to the 2016 HBCU national championship, was announced as South Alabama’s new running backs coach. Fobbs previously coached the running backs at Louisiana Monroe for two seasons after he was fired by Grambling during the 2021 season. Fobbs, a former Tigers football player himself, coached the program from 2014-2021, compiling a record of…

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