I put this in the story about his hire, but figured it deserved it's own post. One day during fall camp, Odom was talking about how he wanted the defense to generate more turnovers, and he said he reached out to Gibbs for advice. Here's the quote, from Aug. 10:
"David Gibbs, guy that’s the defensive coordinator at Texas Tech, when he was at Houston, one year they forced 36 turnovers, and I called, 'You guys share ideas?'" Odom said. "He said, 'Nah, we make an emphasis of it.' But I know there’s more to it than that. And then the next year he had something like 34. And then he goes to Texas Tech, and they’ve been in the top five of the country in forcing turnovers. So there’s ways and ideas that you get and you try to implement in your program, and we’ve taken so many of his thoughts on the approach and hopefully that helps us out.”
"David Gibbs, guy that’s the defensive coordinator at Texas Tech, when he was at Houston, one year they forced 36 turnovers, and I called, 'You guys share ideas?'" Odom said. "He said, 'Nah, we make an emphasis of it.' But I know there’s more to it than that. And then the next year he had something like 34. And then he goes to Texas Tech, and they’ve been in the top five of the country in forcing turnovers. So there’s ways and ideas that you get and you try to implement in your program, and we’ve taken so many of his thoughts on the approach and hopefully that helps us out.”
