CBS Sports, SI.com, ESPN and the Los Angeles Times’ sports blog have all picked up news of Norm Chow‘s impending appointment as the next head coach for UH Football. 

It’s a big move for Chow. Nice little bio from CBS:

Chow, 65, is a Honolulu native who began his coaching career at BYU in 1973 and spent 26 seasons with the Cougars before stints as an offensive coordinator at N.C. State, USC, the Tennessee Titans and UCLA as well as Utah. While at USC he won the 2002 Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant and played a major role in building the Trojans’ national championship- and Heisman-winning offenses.

More on his USC time from LA Times: 

Chow served as the Trojans’ offensive coordinator from 2001-04, during which time USC won two national titles and had a pair of Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks in Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart. He turned down an offer to become Kentucky’s head coach in 2002. 

He left USC for the Titans job in 2005 and was replaced by Lane Kiffin, who has been the Trojans head coach for the last two seasons. Chow also served as offensive coordinator at UCLA from 2008-10 and spent last season in the same role at Utah.