Miami offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Rhett Lashlee is set to become SMU’s head coach.
Lashlee served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at SMU under head coach Sonny Dykes from 2018-19. Dykes is set to become TCU’s head coach.
Lashlee served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Auburn from 2013-16. Tennessee’s wide receivers coach Kodi Burns served as a graduate assistant at Auburn under Lashlee. Lashlee served as a graduate assistant during the 2009 and 2010 seasons when Burns played for the Tigers.
First-year Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel discussed Burns on his staff in October.
“I actually recruited Kodi out of high school,” Heupel said of Burns. “I had a pretty good background of who he is and what he is about. Then watched his success as a player at multiple positions, in his coaching career as well. We actually hired him at UCF before we came up here to Tennessee.
“He’s smart, he’s competitive. He understands it from multiple perspectives, having played quarterback and wide receiver — extremely smart. He, just like all the guys in that staff room, are a big part of how we game plan and what we do each and every Saturday. He’s got a great future in this business.”
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