TAMPA, FLA., JAN. 27, 2026 – South Florida Football Head Coach Brian Hartline continues to build out his first Bulls staff, announcing six more support staff members.
Joe Hall Jr. has been named director of player development. Hall Jr., a former running back at Kansas State, comes to South Florida after serving as the director of student-athlete development in the Kansas State football program the last seven seasons.
David Terry, a four-year football letterman at Temple, will continue to serve as the assistant director of player development. He joined the Bulls in that capacity in June of 2024.
Krystian Garner has been named the director of on-campus recruiting. She comes to South Florida after working in the NFL for a year as a player relations associate. She previously served on Tennessee's football recruiting staff for four seasons (2021-24).
TyGee Leach will serve as director of player personnel/high school relations. Leach comes to South Florida after serving two seasons as director of recruiting operations for Cincinnati.
Jeff Inderhees and
Ben Steib will lead Bulls football equipment operations. Inderhees will serve as assistant athletic director/football equipment and comes to South Florida after three years with the NFL's New Orleans Saints serving as an equipment assistant. New Orleans was the last of seven NFL stops for the longtime professional sports equipment manager who has served in equipment roles with professional teams from 2000 to 2025.
Steib will serve as assistant director of equipment operations. He comes to South Florida after five seasons working with Inderhees with the New Orleans Saints.
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The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 29th season in 2025. In 2025, Bulls went 9-4, earned a third straight bowl appearance, made the program's first College Football Playoff ranking appearance, and were ranked four times in the weekly AP Top 25 poll. USF completed construction on a new $22-million Indoor Performance Facility in 2023 and a $349-million on-campus stadium and football operations center broke ground in the fall of 2024 and is slated for completion by 2027. The Bulls have posted 18 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections (including two consensus selections, the last coming in 2021), as well as 35 first-team all-conference honorees. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft while the Bulls have made 13 bowl game appearances (going 8-5), which is tied for the third-most in the first 25 seasons of a program's bowl eligibility. USF posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016, while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 campaigns and reached as high as No. 2 in the Associated Press rankings during the 2007 season.
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