Coach Heupel - Oklahoma

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Just received an e-mail from a good friend that lives in Oklahoma and graduated from their law school. He sent congratulations on UT hiring Coach Heupel and spoke very highly of him as a person, former Oklahoma QB on a national championship under Stoops and as an assistant coach at Oklahoma for several years under Stoops. He personally saw Heupel play and coach for his years with Oklahoma stating that UT had made a great hire with him.
 
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That's why I will reserve judgment and will save some comments on here about how bad he is going to be. He might not cut it and I am not saying he will win big, but I am willing to see before I throw him under the bus. He evidently knows offense, if he can produce a top notch SEC defense he may do well. I just hope he realizes that this is the SEC and everyweek is tough and it's a LOS league no matter the style of play. Finesse ball will not win here. GBO!!!!!
 
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Spook1 said:
Just received an e-mail from a good friend that lives in Oklahoma and graduated from their law school. He sent congratulations on UT hiring Coach Heupel and spoke very highly of him as a person, former Oklahoma QB on a national championship under Stoops and as an assistant coach at Oklahoma for several years under Stoops. He personally saw Heupel play and coach for his years with Oklahoma stating that UT had made a great hire with him.
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L. O. L.

You have mean friends.
 
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I hope he’s a good fit in Knoxville. Trying to remain positive about this hire. I hope he’s able to come in and put the team in position to win some big games. I’m over hitting this reset button every few years.
 
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rocketskates said:
I sure hope he's right. He did get canned when he was OC at Okie though.
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While that's true, I think that was more of a scapegoat for Stoops. The OU offense had 465 yds/game and 36 points/game in 2014 and only scored less than 30 twice before being fired in 2015. While I am not sold or saying he's going to be great here (because lets be honest no one knows for sure yet), his offenses at OU were still producing.
 
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volsrock09 said:
While that's true, I think that was more of a scapegoat for Stoops. The OU offense had 465 yds/game and 36 points/game in 2014 and only scored less than 30 twice before being fired in 2015. While I am not sold or saying he's going to be great here (because lets be honest no one knows for sure yet), his offenses at OU were still producing.
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Good point. I'm cautiously optimistic--but no more allegiance to coaches until they earn their check. Ive been through this circus enough.
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
That's why I will reserve judgment and will save some comments on here about how bad he is going to be. He might not cut it and I am not saying he will win big, but I am willing to see before I throw him under the bus. He evidently knows offense, if he can produce a top notch SEC defense he may do well. I just hope he realizes that this is the SEC and everyweek is tough and it's a LOS league no matter the style of play. Finesse ball will not win here. GBO!!!!!
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Pretty sure he was OC at Mizzou when they won the SEC East...
 
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rocketskates said:
Good point. I'm cautiously optimistic--but no more allegiance to coaches until they earn their check. Ive been through this circus enough.
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Me too. Ill be honest and say I was pissed at first. I became a fan in 04 when I moved to live with my dad at 13. I don't remember when UT was dominating in the 90's and I hate that I missed the good ole days of UT football. I'm growing tired of constant losing seasons with a decent one or 2 thrown in. With this hire, I'm going to not get too invested in it until I see real improvement that's consistent.
 
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volsrock09 said:
Me too. Ill be honest and say I was pissed at first. I became a fan in 04 when I moved to live with my dad at 13. I don't remember when UT was dominating in the 90's and I hate that I missed the good ole days of UT football. I'm growing tired of constant losing seasons with a decent one or 2 thrown in. With this hire, I'm going to not get too invested in it until I see real improvement that's consistent.
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Dude you missed a great time. I remember years went 10-2 and fans were livid lol.
 
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jeff1vol said:
Ask him WHY he got **** canned by his alma-mater?
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Kiffin, the sexy choice that some were wanting to pay way to much for, got ****canned at his dream job with a more talented team than we’ve seen here in a long time. ****canned from Oakland before he got unpacked, and hasn’t won anything but social media awards.

This isn’t my first choice, but the man deserves a fair chance for having enough confidence to take over this dumpster fire.
 
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I'm not going to be weird and hang out on your board but I'll clear up why Heupel left Oklahoma.


Heupel and Stoops had different visions for what they wanted the offense to evolve into for the future. Coach Stoops wanted to incorporate power run into the spread. Huepel basically said that's not the offense I run or the one you hired me to run. This resulted in Huepel never getting full control of the offense from Stoops and some bad vibes started to form as the offense, while productive, hit a wall.

Then comes coach Stoops shiny new toy Lincoln Riley who ran the offense Stoops wanted for the future.

Heupel was eventually pushed out and its reported he was fired over the phone. Which you can all imagine he didnt appreciate.

And that's it. He immediately went on to coach offense for other schools until the head coaching gigs came along and now he's with you guys.

It's not an interesting story but it's the background you all didnt have on him. He didnt fail at Oklahoma. Oklahoma and Heupel just grew apart.
 
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OffTackleVol said:
Not sure, but I thought it was during the transition of changing coaches.......Stoops to Riley.
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Actually, Stoops replaced him with Riley, the offense went from good to elite, then 2 years later Stoops retired.

(But, Isooner's response is way better than mine on this.)
 
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isooner said:
I'm not going to be weird and hang out on your board but I'll clear up why Heupel left Oklahoma.


Heupel and Stoops had different visions for what they wanted the offense to evolve into for the future. Coach Stoops wanted to incorporate power run into the spread. Huepel basically said that's not the offense I run or the one you hired me to run. This resulted in Huepel never getting full control of the offense from Stoops and some bad vibes started to form as the offense, while productive, hit a wall.

Then comes coach Stoops shiny new toy Lincoln Riley who ran the offense Stoops wanted for the future.

Heupel was eventually pushed out and its reported he was fired over the phone. Which you can all imagine he didnt appreciate.

And that's it. He immediately went on to coach offense for other schools until the head coaching gigs came along and now he's with you guys.

It's not an interesting story but it's the background you all didnt have on him. He didnt fail at Oklahoma. Oklahoma and Heupel just grew apart.
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Thanks for this. Sounds exactly right.
 
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CJH has two years as an OC in the SEC at Missouri.
2016: 31.4 pts per game. 5th in SEC
2017: 37.5 pts per game. 1st in the SEC which included hanging 50 points on Tennessee and Florida.
 
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