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Former college and NFL quarterback Brock Huard has been involved in FOX’s college football coverage since 2019. However, he announced recently he will step away from broadcasting for a unique coaching opportunity.
Instead of broadcasting, Huard is opting to get into coaching via an assistant coaching job at Valor Christian High School in Colorado. That just so happens to be his son’s school, where Mike Sanford Jr., a former offensive coordinator throughout college football, will be the head coach this fall.
“I’m going to be the tight ends coach at Valor Christian High School,” Huard said on the Real Hawk Talk podcast.
Since joining FOX in 2019, he has served as a color commentator for FOX’s No. 2 college football booth. The marquee team for FOX still consists of Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt, but Huard has served for coverage of the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12 during his broadcasting career while also serving for UFL games for the network.
Huard was clear to indicate he’s not hanging up his broadcasting career for good, but the allure of being involved with his son’s team was too much to pass up.
“I’d like to still do (announcing) down the road, but for these years, these formative years, my son’s gonna be a sophomore. These are years I’ll never, ever, ever get back—and I’m gonna jump into it,” Huard said.
Titus Huard is indeed a 6-foot-5 quarterback for Valor Christian in the 2028 recruiting class. He is currently unranked by the 247 Sports Composite.
Among the challenges Huard will face, he described making the transition from “reaction mode” to learning how to prepare for an actually game from the coaching perspective:
“I’m going to learn a lot of football,” Huard continued on the podcast. “I told him, for 18 years, I’ve been in reaction mode. So much of my radio show, so much on game day. Yeah, I project, and I try to see how the game’s unfolding. But most of it is just reacting. (I’m) kind of excited and anxious to see what it’s like on the other side, to prepare, to be in ‘go mode’ from the coaching end of it—and learn a lot. I think I’ll be a better broadcaster, I think the radio show will be better.”
Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.
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