We should take a look at Texas OC Sterling Gilbert

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Looks like Tom Herman will not be retaining any of the coaches from Charlie Strong's staff. If Debord's contract is up and he is gone, Gilbert would be a really good pickup.
 
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Agree. He's an Art Briles disciple and really improved their offense this year. Not exactly the same scheme that Butch runs, but close enough that the personnel would fit and not involve a big learning curve.
 
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Debord should never have been hired. Its a joke that we took a guy out of retirement to coach a offense he never ran before.

That decision right there shoulda told us Butch Jones wasn't the answer.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
There is a really good reason he isn't, don't you think?
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2000 yard rusher and a pretty darn good passing attack with a true freshman QB. Herman has his own people...that's the "really good reason".
 
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Jones all but lobbied for an extension for DeBord last week when he said he hoped to be coaching with him for a long time.

I don't see any changes coming on offense.
 
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butchna said:
He took the president and AD with him...after the hire initially fell through.
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Oh yeah. I gotcha I knew something like that went on because I remember people roasting Strong after he got turned down by a guy from Tulsa. I'd take him IMO but won't happen.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Debord should never have been hired. Its a joke that we took a guy out of retirement to coach a offense he never ran before.

That decision right there shoulda told us Butch Jones wasn't the answer.
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scored a ton of points this year. The offense was the team strength. I didn't like the DeBord hire either--but we had some talent at some key positions this year (Dobbs, Kamara) and he used it productively. What head coach is going to drop an OC after the year our offense had? It might happen, but I rather doubt it. We DO need a QB coach--I don't think that's a DeBord speciality, is it?--and we certainly need better offensive line play. But our injuries and defense killed us this year. Even when healthy, very few teams can play defense anymore--it is completely an offensive game nowadays, and really defenses do well to keep a good team from scoring 30.
 
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I should have prefaced my earlier comments by saying that I'm not sure Debord needs to be replaced, but if we were going to, then Gilbert would be a fine choice.

I don't think Butch is going to give up on running his "infallible" offense the way he thinks it should be run, and Debord is his proxy for doing that, so an outside hire seems unlikely. It was a real mixed bag this year, the first half of the season it looked like a real dud (other than the 2nd half of the UF game), and then it carried us down the stretch when the defense fell apart. My guess is that Butch will just blame its problems on execution and keep Debord. Truth be told, if the O-line can ever get to be an average to above average unit, with Guarantano this could be a real productive offense no matter who is running it.
 
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rickyb712 said:
Did Texas score as much as VOLS did?
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Texas's offense is ranked #20 nationally in total offense with 491.3 yards a game. Tennessee is ranked #51 with 437.3 yards a game.

We are #26 in scoring offense 36.3 points a game and Texas is ranked #50 with 31.9 a game.

raw
 
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DeBord and UT's offense have been good 'statistically' but have been inconsistent for most part in last two years. The play calling under pressure has been really weird in past two years. Some days they are amazing with Dobbs run and neat passes, some days they look horrible. Whether it is run-up-the-middle in late game scenarios that cost us games, Dobbs' intercepted pass in OT against TAMU or Kamara out of bounds at Vandy, there are plenty of such examples.
Debord looks like a 'rhythm' guy .. he gets going and he unstoppable .. if he can't find rhythm, then it looks awful.
 
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