According to reports from CBS and other news outlets, Utah State head coach Jerrod Calhoun will be on the move to a new job. He will be hired away from Logan by the University of Cincinnati to take over the Bearcats’ struggling program.
The news, broken by Matt Norlander of CBS, came while Utah State’s chartered plane was still in the air. It had not yet been 24 hours since the Aggies had suffered their season-ending loss to Arizona. According to Norlander, Calhoun is signing a six-year contract with the Bearcats and a public announcement is expected to occur in the coming days.
Calhoun’s hire by Cincinnati ends a brief two-year tenure. One where he accomplished as much and more than his also short-tenured predecessors. Calhoun won 55 games with the Aggies, including 29 in the 2025-26 season where Utah State laid claim to the regular season and conference tournament titles for the Mountain West.
The frequency with which Utah State has had to cycle through coaches has become a just-as-common national headline. In the last eight years, they’ve had Craig Smith (2018-21), Ryan Odom (2021-23), Danny Sprinkle (2023-24) and Calhoun (2024-26) lead the program. Smith is the only one of those four to coach the Aggies for more than two seasons.
Despite this turnover, USU has maintained a high standard of success over the last eight years, winning 201 total games, six Mountain West regular season and tournament championships, qualified for the NCAA Tournament seven times and won two games in March Madness.
