According to Football Scoop, former head of the South Carolina Gamecocks player team Drew Hughes got his next job.
John Brice reported on Friday morning that Hughes will join the Jacksonville Jaguars office, which is led by general manager Trent Baalke. Former Ohio State coach Meyer Urbano is the head coach.
Hughes, who Will Muschamp hired to replace Matt Lindsey 12 months ago, he worked in South Carolina for less than a year. Hughes was hired by the first year’s head coach Shane Beamer until Texas came to call.
Steve Sarkisian he called on Hughes to take over the personnel department for the Longhorns’ players, but the hiring was never finalized as a result of alleged recruitment improprieties in Tennessee. To be clear, there are no public reports that connect Hughes directly to any of the allegations.
Hughes oversaw the 2018-19 volunteer players’ personnel department before leaving Knoxville in 2020, about 10 months before the coach Jeremy Pruitt and several members of the recruiting team were fired. Before Hughes took office in Tennessee, he worked in similar roles in Florida, NC State and UCF.
Beamer took Hughes’s place with Taylor Edwards, who has spent the past two years running the player’s personnel department in Maryland. Edwards previously worked in Arkansas with Chad Morris. Edwards’ previous stops include Alabama, Jacksonville State and UAB. He graduated in 2011 from the University of Montevallo.