Thank you Josh Heupel

[cherokeebrewer]

What a magical season we had in 2000 and we'll always be grateful for that and the good work you've done to help others. Wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavors. I have no doubt you will land on your feet. God speed...

[BoulderSooner79]

Many good coaches have been let go sometime in their career. If they learn and are resilient, they bounce back.

[Pricetag]

Yep. He was like a coach on the field in 2000. I still haven't given up on the possibility of him being a great offensive coach.

[swardboy]

He'll probably wind up at Clemson and wreck havoc on defenses in the ACC....oh wait, that's too farfetched to even consider.

[BoulderSooner79]

He'll probably wind up at Clemson and wreck havoc on defenses in the ACC....oh wait, that's too farfetched to even consider.

Now they will have the #1 offense to go along with the #1 defense. :applouse::applouse::applouse:

[jkjsooner]

Agreed. We owe almost as much to Heupel as Stoops for the resurrection of our program.

[SoonerBorn]

Best wishes to everyone who is leaving. And, thanks Josh also for your foundation, which helped a child I was working with many years ago be able to go to a camp.

[Pride1Mom]

One of the GREATEST in teaching QBs around! I still think the biggest problem this year was DEFENSE! What Josh did with Paul Thompson, Sam Bradford, Jason White, etc. was amazing. He will be back, just watch......

[Soonerjeepman]

thanks and good luck. Boomer~

[Piware]

Josh, you were an inspiration in 2000 and know you will go on to do great things. You gave it a good try but it just wasn't in the cards - yet. You will always be our Josh.

[blacktop]

Thank you Josh & Jay for your effort. As always, there is a time to move on. Thanks again, good luck in the future.

[beached_sooner]

Agreed. We owe almost as much to Heupel as Stoops for the resurrection of our program.

+1

[aero]

Much thanks Josh. A great Sooner.

[8timechamps]

Still don't completely agree that Josh wasn't the fall guy in all of this, but I appreciate all he did and I'm sure he'll land on his feet.

[odontia]

Josh is in Logan, Utah right now being offered the offensive coordinator job for the Utah State Aggies.

[odontia]

Josh is in Logan, Utah right now being offered the offensive coordinator job for the Utah State Aggies.

[Blue]

Thank you Soonerfans.com for being classy. I'm so tired of reading another board that completely shows how pathetic Sooner fans can be and completely gives the rest of the fanbase a bad name. TYJH (Thank you Josh Huepel).

[BoulderSooner79]

Thank you Soonerfans.com for being classy. I'm so tired of reading another board that completely shows how pathetic Sooner fans can be and completely gives the rest of the fanbase a bad name. TYJH (Thank you Josh Huepel).

Totally agree! That whole FUJH tags was incredibly immature and disrespectful.

[8timechamps]

Josh is in Logan, Utah right now being offered the offensive coordinator job for the Utah State Aggies.

That would be a good landing spot for Josh, and could eventually offer him a head coaching opportunity.

[soonergirlNeugene]

Best of luck to Josh wherever he lands. With any luck, he'll wind up repeating Venables' success with another program. (Hopefully not against us....so not EXACTLY like Venables)

[birddog]

Josh has always been a classy guy. No doubt he was put in a tough spot when Bob decided to use a mobile qb. He just didn't seem comfortable with the pieces on the field and seemed to make routine, basic plays for most oc's become really confusing, last-second calls. Some of the negative plays have to be player issues but without a real, defined system in place, long drives were really rare unless someone broke one off for 40+yards.

[SanDiegoSoonerGal]

Thanks, Josh, for making me believe in Sooner Magic again after the dark, dark days.

Thanks for showing nothing but Sooner class in 14 years.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. I hope in your case it's a big, sunny window you can step effortlessly through to achieve everything you wish to achieve in this life.

[BoulderSooner79]

Josh has always been a classy guy. No doubt he was put in a tough spot when Bob decided to use a mobile qb. He just didn't seem comfortable with the pieces on the field and seemed to make routine, basic plays for most oc's become really confusing, last-second calls. Some of the negative plays have to be player issues but without a real, defined system in place, long drives were really rare unless someone broke one off for 40+yards.

I don't know, if you take Bob's comments from today at face value, it was Josh or someone else that wanted to go with a mobile QB. Bob said he wants an offense and a QB that can throw the football and that that *if* the QB can run, that's a bonus (implying it's not required). He also added he has a pretty good idea what kind of offense he wants to see, so I take that to mean he'll hire an OC that in sync with him.

[graphster]

Josh has always been a classy guy. No doubt he was put in a tough spot when Bob decided to use a mobile qb. He just didn't seem comfortable with the pieces on the field and seemed to make routine, basic plays for most oc's become really confusing, last-second calls. Some of the negative plays have to be player issues but without a real, defined system in place, long drives were really rare unless someone broke one off for 40+yards.

I think part of the problem was that Josh was brought in initially to continue Wilson's system (who largely built on and improved the system that had been in place under Chuck Long), rather than to truly implement his own system. And then over time it seemed to gradually morph as we recruited mobile QBs who weren't great as pocket passers, and we got further and further away from what he was comfortable with.

My sense is that Josh is really more of a true spread guy who preferred something closer to what he ran when he was a player, but he wasn't ever really allowed to develop a "system" of his own. Seemed like there were external pressures pushing him to incorporate more power running in an effort to be balanced. Hopefully with a fresh start somewhere else, he'll be able to better develop a core identity/philosophy, rather than trying to take a mashup of several different concepts and make them work together.

[SanDiegoSoonerGal]

I don't know, if you take Bob's comments from today at face value, it was Josh or someone else that wanted to go with a mobile QB. Bob said he wants an offense and a QB that can throw the football and that that *if* the QB can run, that's a bonus (implying it's not required). He also added he has a pretty good idea what kind of offense he wants to see, so I take that to mean he'll hire an OC that in sync with him.

So Bob is firing Josh because Josh or somebody else wanted to go with a mobile QB etc etc and Bob, Josh's boss, didn't have the power to override Josh's decisions so he fired him because Josh wasn't running the kind of offense he (Josh's boss) doesn't want to see?

Does. Not. Compute.

Bosses boss. That's always been my experience anyway.

[BoulderSooner79]

So Bob is firing Josh because Josh or somebody else wanted to go with a mobile QB etc etc and Bob, Josh's boss, didn't have the power to override Josh's decisions so he fired him because Josh wasn't running the kind of offense he (Josh's boss) doesn't want to see?

Does. Not. Compute.

Bosses boss. That's always been my experience anyway.

I'm not claiming to know the internal workings of the staff. Bosses also delegate and give authority to their reports to do their jobs the way they think is best. But there is also accountability of how things work out. I work at a large software company and that's exactly how things work here. VPs are given broad power of how to run things within their budget and they get fired if they fail. But they make a lot of coin during their tenure - similar to the amount Josh was making in fact.

Maybe Bob was all over the dual threat QB thing when we went that way and he's changed his mind now. He sure sounded certain TODAY that he wants a QB that can throw the dang ball.

[Blue]

No doubt Huepel was not working. Glad he was shown the door.