College basketball has started a trend — former star players joining the coaching ranks — that college football seems to slowly be picking up on.

You have seen it on the hardwood, with Juwan Howard, Jerry Stackhouse, Speedy Claxton, and now it is happening on the gridiron.

Former Titans star running back Eddie George is expected to be named the new coach at Tennessee State, according to multiple reports.

George would join Deion Sanders of Jackson State as NFL players who are now coaching in college. The two schools face each other annually in the Southern Heritage Classic.

While George played for Ohio State in college, he obviously has ties in Tennessee, due to his playing days in the NFL, and Tennessee State does play some of its home games at the Titans’ home stadium.

It should be noted that the 47-year-old George, a College Football Hall of Famer and four-time NFL Pro Bowl selection, has never coached before. He retired from playing in 2006 and went back to school, earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.