Former Tennessee defensive coordinator John Jancek will be hired as the safeties coach at South Florida, according to a late Thursday night tweet from Sports Illustrated's Thayer Evans.

Ex-Tennessee DC John Jancek will be new safeties coach for South Florida coach Willie Taggart per source. — Thayer Evans (@ThayerEvansSI) January 29, 2016



Jancek came to Tennessee from Cincinnati with boss Butch Jones in 2013, coordinating the Vols' defenses each of the past three seasons.

Despite coaching a group that showed improvement from year to year in several important statistical categories and finished the 2015 season second nationally in third-down defense, Jancek was dismissed — it was publicly disclosed as a mutual parting of ways —Â after Tennessee's 45-6 win over then-13th-ranked Northwestern in the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day in Tampa.

Jancek was replaced at Tennessee by Bob Shoop, who left Penn State for Knoxville and a three-year, $3.45 million deal before incentives.

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