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Willie Author Taggart [1] (born August 27, 1976) is an American football coach who is the running backs coach for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). ). He has held the head coach position at five NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision programs: Western Kentucky (2009 to 2012 seasons); South Florida (2013 to 2016); Oregon (2017); Florida State (2018 and part of the ...
The Bulls earned a bid to the Miami Beach Bowl against Taggart's former team and alma mater, Western Kentucky, a game USF lost by a score of 45–35. [41] During the bowl game, multiple school records were set, including single season rushing yards (1,381), and 100-yard rushing games (9), by Marlon Mack , and single season receiving yards (822 ...
In 2017, under new coach Willie Taggart, the Ducks improved and qualified for the bowl season with a 7–5 record. Taggart leveraged the modest but short-lived rebuild into the head coaching position at Florida State University and left the Ducks before their bowl game, becoming the shortest-tenured Ducks coach since the 1940s.
They played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL. They were led by Head Coach Willie Taggart, who was in his third year. They finished the season 8–5, 6–2 in American Athletic play to finish in second place in the East Division. They were invited to the Miami Beach Bowl where they lost to Western Kentucky.
The 2016 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 2016 season is the 20th season for the Bulls, and their fourth as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). They played their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida ...
The 2015 Miami Beach Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 21, 2015 at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida. The second edition of the Miami Beach Bowl featured the champions from Conference USA , the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers against the South Florida Bulls of the American Athletic Conference .
The Willie Taggart era is over at Florida Atlantic after three seasons. The Owls (5-7) will miss a postseason bowl for the second consecutive season.
This was the first bowl game in school history for the Hilltoppers, being one of two teams making their bowl debut this season (along with fellow Sun Belt member the Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks). On December 7, Hilltoppers head coach Willie Taggart accepted the vacant head coaching position at South Florida .