Being the head coach of the University of South Florida football team isn’t an easy job.

Just ask Jim Leavitt and Skip Holtz, the last two coaches. USF decided to take a step in a new direction when they announced the new head football coach would be Willie Taggart. At 36, Taggart is the youngest, and first African American, head coach in the school’s history.

Taggart is leaving a post at Western Kentucky, where he compiled a 16-20 record in two seasons. Taggart was a high school standout at Bradenton Manatee High School, where he was a first-team all-state and all conference selection as a senior. He became a star quarterback at Western Kentucky from 1995 through 1998, and the school retired his jersey.