It’s why there’s really not a prototypical Heupel quarterback. Drew Lock, McKenzie Milton, Dillon Gabriel and Hooker have different strengths and weaknesses, yet all of them blossomed under Heupel.
He’s had 4 very different starting quarterbacks during his last 6 seasons. He’s a set-it-and-forget-it offensive mind.
Nonetheless, Heupel is at a place that few outside the Volunteer State probably realize. Had Hendon Hooker not gotten hurt against South Carolina last year, that would’ve probably happened. Heupel is still trying to get his first signal-caller to New York. Riley, who succeeded Heupel as the Sooners’ OC after he was fired, obviously has the edge because in his 6 years as a head coach, he led 3 different Heisman quarterbacks. In other words, Heupel is in a class of offensive minds that includes Riley and Day. And Ryan Day is basically on this list if you want to say that his head coaching started in 2018 (he was Ohio State’s interim coach for the first 3 games while Urban Meyer served his suspension.) Saban obviously doesn’t have his hands all over the offense like Riley and Heupel. Just for a little perspective, that tied the longest such streak that Steve Spurrier had at Florida from 1993-97. In the past 5 years, here’s the list of head coaches who have had a top-10 scoring offense every season: 1 overall scoring offense this past year.
If we want to just focus on Heupel’s 5 years as a head coach, he’s got 5 top-8 offenses, including the No.
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That’s at Mizzou, where he was an offensive coordinator with full autonomy on that side of the ball, UCF and Tennessee. Six years, 6 consecutive top-15 offenses. Heupel’s talent as an offensive mind - I realize he’s technically not a primary play-caller but he oversees the offense - is second to none in the sport. The entire reason I’m not bailing on the idea of Joe Milton figuring things out in his third job as a starting quarterback is because who his head coach is.
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