Southern Miss just can’t catch a break.
It wins the Conference USA West championship, brings back almost all of the key pieces from its 2015 roster and gets to Jan. 24 with its promising young head coach still in Hattiesburg. Recruits are committing left and right. Good ones too, and from Mississippi -- the kind Jeff Bower used to always get.
So of course on a Sunday afternoon less than two weeks before National Signing Day Todd Monken accepts a job as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator. He’s a heck of a coach and if he wants to go to the NFL then good for him.