Sources: Bowling Green targeting SUU’s Simon

2:44 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Bowling Green is targeting Southern Utah coach Todd Simon to be

its next coach, sources

informed ESPN on Tuesday.A deal is anticipated to come together in the upcoming days, sources said.Simon is set to change Michael Huger, who was fired in the wake of an 11-20 season. Simon emerged as the leading target of brand-new athletic director Derek van der

Merwe after winning 20 or more games in 3 consecutive years at Southern Utah. That consisted of a Big Sky routine season champion in 2020-21. Simon has actually been at Southern Utah considering that 2016 and assembled a 118-106 record there. He was UNLV’s interim coach throughout the 2015-16 season and went 9-8 throughout a 17-game stint.Prior to his time as an

assistant coach and interim coach at UNLV, Simon coached for 7 years at prep powerhouse Findlay Preparation. He went 35-1 as a head coach in 2012-13 and the program was 192-9 throughout his entire time there.Southern Utah’s 23 wins in 2021-22 were the second-most in school history and he oversaw the shift from the Huge Sky to the WAC this season. The Thunderbirds went 22-21 this year and finished third in the WAC with a 12-6 record.Bowling Green has a

history of working with strong coaches, as Jim Larranaga, Dan Dakich, Bill Fitch and Chris Jans all coached at the school. Bowling Green has actually not made the NCAA tournament given that Fitch was the head coach for a lone season in 1967-68.