Rhule named Baylor Head Coach

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published December 6, 2016 at 12:11 PM CST

Baylor University has named Matt Rhule as its new head football coach. In a release from the university, Rhule will take over as the 27th head coach for the university. He is expected to be named to the post tomorrow.

Arkansas State Head Football Coach Blake Anderson's name was reportedly in the running for the position. Anderson has a contract extension at Arkansas State that will pay him $700,000 a year through 2019. He has won two Sun Belt Championships while at the helm at the Red Wolves.

Arkansas State plays in the AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, December 17th at 4:30. The game will be broadcast on the CBS Sports Network.

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Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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