Mississippi State head coach Jeff Lebby speaks very highly of Tennessee football head coach Josh Heupel.
It's not uncommon for head coaches in college football to have crossed over with one another at some point in their careers. Part of the process to becoming a head coach is working your way up the totem pole and that usually requires a coach to make stops a multiple schools. That's exactly howLebby joined the UCF coaching staff the same year Heupel was named head coach back in 2018.
“Josh Heupel was the one, at UCF, that gave me the opportunity to coach the every single day,” said Lebby. “And he’s the one that created so much confidence for me in being able to help a guy, to be able to fix a guy, to coach the fundamentals of the position. Not just how to get to his decision making and where to go with the football and situationally understanding things, because that’s one thing.
Lebby is on the verge of entering his first season as the head coach at Mississippi State after a few years at both Ole Miss and Oklahoma calling plays. Both Heupel and Lebby are now head ball coaches at SEC programs and. The first-time head coach will have a tough task ahead of him in correcting the ship out with the Bulldogs, but it sounds like he has a lot of confidence in himself thanks to Heupel.
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