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The Michigan Panthers and New Orleans Breakers were the final two United States Football League teams to announce their head coaches Thursday.
The Panthers may have made the splashiest hire of the eight USFL teams.
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Jeff Fisher, former NFL head coach, watches the action from the sideline during an Alliance of American Football game between the Memphis Express and the San Diego Fleet at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium March 2, 2019, in Memphis. (Joe Murphy/AAF/Getty Images)
Michigan announced it hired Jeff Fisher as its head coach. Fisher has 30 years of NFL coaching experience and served as head coach of the Tennessee Titans and the Los Angeles Rams. He guided the Titans to a Super Bowl appearance and lost.
Fisher's last head coaching job in the NFL was with the Rams in 2016. He was replaced by Sean McVay. Fisher recently served as an adviser at Tennessee State, whose head coach is Eddie George. Fisher coached George with the Titans.
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Fisher, 63, was 173-165-1 as a head coach.
Head coach Larry Fedora of the North Carolina Tar Heels directs his team against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets during a game at Kenan Stadium Nov. 3, 2018, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
The Breakers announced they hired Larry Fedora as their head coach for the rebooted season.
Fedora, 59, was last an assistant for Baylor in 2020. He was the head coach at Southern Mississippi from 2008 to 2011 and at North Carolina from 2012 to 2018. He was 79-62 as a head coach.
The Fisher and Fedora announcements round out the coaching hires for the USFL’s eight teams.
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A breakdown of USFL coaches:
- Birmingham Stallions: Skip Holtz
- Tampa Bay Bandits: Todd Haley
- New Orleans Breakers: Larry Fedora
- Pittsburgh Maulers: Kirby Wilson
- Houston Gamblers: Kevin Sumlin
- Philadelphia Stars: Bart Andrus
- New Jersey Generals: Mike Riley
- Michigan Panthers: Jeff Fisher
The eight teams that will be competing in 2022 in the USFL. (USFL)
The season begins in April.
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