Update: Montana has announced the move, saying Hauck is retiring. A press conference is planned for Wednesday morning. Original story below. 

Bobby Hauck is expected to resign as Montana’s head coach, and the Grizzlies will promote wide receivers coach Bobby Kennedy to replace him, sources confirmed to FootballScoop on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Skyline Sports in Montana. 

Hauck went 151-43 in two stints with the Griz, his alma mater, sandwiched around a 5-year run at UNLV. He took Montana to the FCS semifinals in 2025, falling to eventual champ Montana State in the biggest sporting event in the history of Montana. He took the Grizzlies to four FCS national title games, most recently in 2023. He won at least a share the Big Sky Conference title in all seven seasons during his first 7-year run from 2003-09, including three trips to the FCS title game and four semifinal appearances. He exits as the winningest coach in Big Sky history. 

That success earned him the head coaching job at UNLV, where he went just 15-49 in five seasons. After three seasons as the special teams coordinator at San Diego State, Hauck returned to Montana in 2018. He won the 2023 Big Sky title and reached the title game, while making four trips to the FCS quarterfinals. His 2025 team went 13-2, losing only to Montana State. 

Hauck won six conference/regional coach of the year awards, and was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year in 2006 and ’23. 

Kennedy, the FootballScoop Wide Receivers Coach of the Year in 2008, joined the Montana staff in August 2025. He was Rice’s wide receivers coach in 2024 and spent 2023 out of coaching after a 5-year run at Stanford. This will be his first head coaching position. 

A former quarterback at Northern Colorado, Kennedy spent the entirety of his career at the FBS level until joining Hauck’s staff last summer. After GA stints at Illinois and Penn State, Kennedy crafted a career as one of the most respected wide receivers coaches in college football, with stops at Wake Forest, Washington, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, Stanford and Rice (plus one season coaching running backs at Arizona). Kennedy interviewed for head coaching roles over the years but never landed one, until now. 

To be clear, Montana AD Kent Haslam is saying Bobby Kennedy is the new head football coach of the Griz. Nothing interim about this.