USF coach Willie Taggart will be named coach at Oregon, ESPN's Brett McMurphy reported earlier this morning.
Bulls athletic director Mark Harlan didn't immediately respond to a text message. Widely deemed a can't-miss prospect for a Power Five coaching job the last two seasons, Taggart, a 40-year-old married father of three, has won 17 of his last 21 after a 7-21 start.
He was completing the first of a five-year, $9 million deal with USF, which he signed last December. Terms of the contract call for him to pay USF a $1.7 million buyout, which the Bulls could use to pay off former football coach Skip Holtz (owed $500,000 a year through Dec.