Tennessee football: Top 5 remaining potential OC candidates for Vols
Despite less FBS coordinator experience than everybody on this list except for Joe Osovet, Jeff Lebby would be the best hire by far for Tennessee football. With Kendal Briles joining the Florida State Seminoles, this is a great consolation hire.
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There is enough evidence out there that the Art Briles offense is the trendy one that works. That’s why his son was such a hot commodity to begin with. But beyond what Kendal Briles did, look at what Lebby did.
He served with the Baylor Bears from 2012 to 2016, studying under Art Briles through 2015. He is actually Briles’s son-in-law. And during that time, he was the running backs coach producing five 1,000-yard rushers.
The splash numbers on Lebby’s resume, though, are 2017, his one year as a head coach. Sure it was in NAIA, but the stats show that he is cut from the same cloth as Kendal and Art Briles. While coaching the Southeastern Fire, he went 8-2, winning the Mid-South Conference and failing to break 40 points only once. He went over 60 four times.
Simply put, Lebby knows what he’s doing offensively. Add in an extra year of studying under Josh Heupel while coaching quarterbacks, and Lebby would be a huge pickup for Tennessee football. He’s the best promotional hire a team could get. And he’s probably pretty affordable, if that matters in any way.
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Not only is Lebby cut from the Briles cloth, but he also avoids any of the Briles baggage. Kendal Briles had a bit of baggage related to the Baylor Bears sexual assault scandal. Before him, the best hire was Hugh Freeze, who clearly had baggage. Lebby hasn’t been implicated in anything, however, so the Vols could make a quiet splash by bringing him in.