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Tennessee Football: Top 5 Candidates Who Should Replace Mike DeBord as Vols Offensive Coordinator

By Caleb Calhoun

Oct 15, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers head coach Butch Jones runs on to the field before the game against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 15, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers head coach Butch Jones runs on to the field before the game against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Apr 16, 2016; University Park, PA, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joe Moorhead looks on during a warmup prior to the Blue White spring game at Beaver Stadium. The Blue team defeated the White team 37-0. Mandatory Credit: Matthew
Apr 16, 2016; University Park, PA, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joe Moorhead looks on during a warmup prior to the Blue White spring game at Beaver Stadium. The Blue team defeated the White team 37-0. Mandatory Credit: Matthew /

3. Joe Moorhead

The offensive coordinator on the other side of the Rose Bowl was not so bad either. Tennessee football stole away Penn State’s defensive coordinator last year in Bob Shoop, who brought mixed reviews to Vols fans.

But that doesn’t mean they can’t steal away the Nittany Lions’ new offensive coordinator now.

He would be going to a weaker division if he left Penn State for Tennessee and would be more likely to star as an offensive mind, so Butch Jones could definitely lure him away.

And as impressive as Tee Martin was this year, Moorhead was more impressive.

Before Moorhead arrived in Happy Valley, James Franklin’s first two teams Penn State both had offenses ranked outside of the Top 100. And that happened with a five-star quarterback and future NFL Draft pick in Christian Hackenberg (although Hackenberg is the most overrated and mentally weakest player ever).

Yet this year, with a three-star athlete playing quarterback who is barely six feet in Trace McSorley, Moorhead implemented his spread/pro-style mix of an offense and turned the Nittany Lions into a Top 30 offense overall, improving them dramatically.

There’s no way to understate how impressive that is.

Moorhead is clearly an offensive genius, evidenced by the unprecedented success he had at Fordham as head coach for four years and his success with the UCONN Huskies, where his offensive mind allowed a terrible coach like Randy Edsall to take a terrible program like Connecticut to a BCS bowl.

So yes, you can’t get much better than him. And if Butch Jones could lure Moorhead to Knoxville, that would be amazing. But he’s not the most proven guy on here.

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