UTC offensive coordinator Jeff Durden leads quarterbacks Jacob Huesman (14) and Terrell Robinson (17) in pass plays during Mocs’ football practice.Quarterback Jacob Huesman has had a new instructor this semester – new offensive coordinator Jeff Durden.
Yet Huesman already has played a teaching role in the curriculum that University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football players learned in the weeks leading up to spring practice, which started Friday and will continue through April 20.
“There was a few things that we wanted to keep our way, and he said, ‘OK,’ but there was a lot of different vocabulary and lingo to pick up on,” said Huesman, who likely will be the starting quarterback on Aug. 29 against UT-Martin.
“We’ve hung out a lot with him and we’re getting a grasp of it,” Huesman said of Durden. “We were up there [in classrooms] at least a few days a week, voluntarily, learning.”
Durden and head coach Russ Huesman have said this semester that the Mocs’ base offense will be similar to what they ran last season when they went 6-5 overall and 5-3 in the Southern Conference. But there will be some changes — and likely an increased pace of play when the time is right to teach that advanced curriculum.