Arkansas DC Odom reportedly interviews for vacancy at Tulsa

College of Arkansas soccer coaches hit the street on Friday for an intense weekend of recruiting and one in every of Coach Sam Pittman’s coordinators seems to have peeled off a spell for a job interview.

Dean Blevins of KWTV-TV of Oklahoma Metropolis reported on Friday that Odom had interviewed through Zoom for the vacant head teaching place at Tulsa.

An Oklahoma native, Odom has in depth ties to the state and started his soccer teaching profession in Ada, Okla., in 2000 after graduating from Missouri.

Odom has been defensive coordinator and a confidante for Pittman since December 2019. Previous to that, Odom had a 25-25 file in 4 seasons as head coach at Missouri.

Tulsa fired Coach Phillip Montgomery on Sunday after eight years and a 43-53 file.

The Athletic talked about Odom as one in every of a number of potential candidates for the opening for the Golden Hurricane, whose enrollment of lower than 4,000 college students is the bottom within the Soccer Bowl Subdivision. One other potential candidate, G.J. Kinne, was employed Friday by Texas State. Kinne, a highschool participant in Gilmer, Texas, for present Texas-San Antonio Coach Jeff Traylor, was on workers at Arkansas in 2018 with Traylor underneath Chad Morris.

Different candidates, based on The Athletic, embrace Texas huge receivers coach Brennan Marion, a former Golden Hurricane receiver; Justin Fuente, a Tulsa native who has a 69-54 file in 10 seasons as a head coach at Memphis and Virginia Tech; former Texas Tech Coach Matt Wells; Purdue receivers coach Garrick McGee, a former Arkansas offensive coordinator underneath Bobby Petrino, who can be a local of Tulsa, and a number of other others.

One other candidate may very well be Ohio State offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson, a former Indiana head coach. Wilson spent 9 years on Coach Bob Stoops’ workers at Oklahoma and coordinated prolific offenses for the Sooners from 2006-10. He gained the Broyles Award as the highest assistant coach within the nation in 2008 when the Sooners scored 60-plus factors in 5 consecutive video games.

Odom is making a wage of $1.85 million this season, the very best ever paid for an Arkansas coordinator.

In line with The Athletic, Montgomery’s wage at Tulsa, a personal college, was about $1.8 million final season.