The University of Cincinnati is expected to hire former Ohio State defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs, sources told ESPN, marking a return to the city where he spent more than two decades as a high school coach and a school where he began his college coaching career.
Coombs is expected to coach cornerbacks and be the special teams coordinator for the Bearcats, working on defense under second-year coordinator Mike Tressel. Coombs got demoted from play calling duties at Ohio State in September this season, and his departure from Ohio State sets up a reunion with a school where he'd spent five seasons as an assistant under Brian Kelly and Butch Jones from 2007-11.