"Other than Jackson State's Deion Sanders, Simmons is the HBCU coach generating the most buzz for FBS jobs after nearly landing the Florida International gig in December. Simmons is 45-21 as an FCS coach with top-25 finishes in the past two seasons that the Rattlers competed. The former Clemson quarterback has FBS coordinator experience at Middle Tennessee State University.
'I'm a huge Willie Simmons fan,' a Power 5 coach said. 'He's got a tremendous upside.'
Added a Power 5 athletic director: 'I can definitely see him as a Group of 5 head coach as a next step.'"
Rattler football has seen tremendous success under Head Coach Simmons with back-to-back top-25 seasons (2019 and 2021). In 2021, Coach Simmons coached the Rattlers to its first FCS Playoffs appearance in over 20 years.
Coach Simmons is definitely talented and a force to be reckoned with...can't express our excitement of how he's turned our program back around! I sure hope we can keep him because those Power 5 programs ain't slick. Compliment and court the HBCU Coaches that has garnered the success, notoriety/attention and "influence" in the short amount of time that Coach Simmons and Deion Sanders has and see if you can throw enough $$ and promises of bigger and better if they come to your programs instead, so the HBCUs can stop competing for/attracting top tier players and the Power 5 programs can lure them back. We can see right through your so-called compliments...it's called "special interests."
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