Former Oklahoma Sooners offensive coordinator Seth Littrell landed a brand new gig on Tuesday, becoming a member of one other acquainted face to Sooner Nation.
Tennessee Volunteers head coach Josh Heupel has employed Littrell to affix his workers in Knoxville, in response to the Knoxville Information Sentinel’s Adam Sparks. Sparks famous that Littrell will doubtless slide into an analyst function since all 10 assistant roles on the Tennessee workers have already been crammed. As of Tuesday evening, the workforce had not but introduced the transfer.
Littrell will be part of his former school teammate from 1999 to 2000 at OU. He was a fullback on the 2000 nationwide championship workforce that Heupel quarterbacked to the title. The duo served as captains collectively for the Sooners championship run.
Paradoxically, Heupel and Littrell have been each offensive coordinators at their alma maters and have been fired from their posts almost ten years aside.
Littrell lasted simply eight video games as OU’s offensive coordinator, and coached simply seven video games within the 2024 season. The Sooner offense reached a low level underneath Littrell’s management, and he was dismissed after a 35-9 drubbing by the hands of the South Carolina Gamecocks in October. He was initially employed as an offensive analyst by Brent Venables in 2023, after serving as North Texas’ head coach from 2016 to 2022.
It could have been difficult for anybody to have a lot success with the gamers Oklahoma had out there on offense. Throw in a quarterback change midseason and it was going to be robust for Littrell to seek out a lot of a rhythm offensively.
Ben Arbuckle was introduced in to take the reins of the offense in Norman to show round a unit that underperformed in 2024.
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