Bob DeBesse

Bob DeBesse
Sport(s) Football
Biographical details
Born September 30, 1959 (1959-09-30) (age 52)
Place of birth Boston, Massachusetts
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1981–1982
1983–1989
1990–1991
1992–1996
1997–2002
2003–2005
2006–2007
2008–2009
2010–present		 Texas State (GA)
TCU (RB/QB)
TCU (OC)
Minnesota (OC)
Texas State
Purdue (WR)
Texas A&M (WR)
Consol HS (asst.)
Sam Houston State (OC)
Head coaching record
Overall 27–39
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Robert Damien "Bob" DeBesse (born September 30, 1959(1959-09-30) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American football coach. He is the offensive coordinator of the New Mexico Lobos.

DeBesse attended Stratford High School in Houston, Texas and earned his bachelor of science in Education at the Texas State University-San Marcos in 1982.[1]

He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Texas State,[2] before being hired as an offensive assistant to Jim Wacker at Texas Christian University. In 1990 he was appointed offensive coordinator. DeBesse followed Wacker to Minnesota in 1992.[1] He succeeded Jim Bob Helduser as head coach at his alma mater in 1997.[1] After mediocre success, DeBesse was replace by Manny Matsakis in 2003.[1] He joined Joe Tiller's staff at Purdue as wide receivers coach.[3]

From 2006–2007, he coached the same position under Dennis Franchione at Texas A&M.[1] Coach Dennis Franchione resigned from Texas A&M University at the end of the 2007. Bob Debesse wasn't retained by the newly hired head coach of Texas A&M University and has since been hired to coach the defensive backs at A&M Consolidated High School located in College Station, TX. In January 2010. Bob DeBesse was hired as the Offensive Coordinator at Sam Houston State University. He will coach the quarterbacks. [4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e gobearkats.com (2007). "Bob DeBesse - Football Assistant Coach - Offensive Coordinator". Sam Houston Bearkats - Football. Sam Houston State University. http://www.gobearkats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=19900&ATCLID=204899366. Retrieved January 1, 2011. 
  2. ^ search.txstate.edu (2010). "Texas State University - San Marcos". University News Service. University News Service. http://search.txstate.edu/search?q=Bob+Debesse&site=txstate_no_users&client=txstate&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=txstate&sitesearch=www.txstate.edu. Retrieved January 1, 2011. 
  3. ^ purduesports.com (2010). "Bob DeBesse Profile". Purdue Boilermakers - Football. CBSSPORTS.com College Network (CBS Interactive). http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/debesse_bob00.html. Retrieved January 1, 2011. 
  4. ^ Richard Croome (2010). "SHSU has new coach, plenty of new players". BrazosSports.com. BrazosSports.com. http://www.brazossports.com/football/SHSU-has-new-coach--plenty-of-new-players?utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BAggieSportsFootball%2B%2528Aggie%2BSports%2BFootball%2529&referring_uri=/person/bob-debesse-0x58dfa&referring_title=Evri. Retrieved January 1, 2011.  Note: Quarterbacks coach, the same position DeBesse held at Texas Christian University, University of Minnesota and Texas A&M University.

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