Sun-Sentinel · Aug 23, 2017
FAU installs Kendal Briles' offensive system — without a physical playbook
When DeAndre McNeal was at Texas, he asked offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert for a copy of the playbook. Gilbert didn’t give him one. He didn’t have one to give. There was no playbook.
Gilbert — a descendant of the Art Briles coaching tree and purveyor of the up-tempo, spread scheme popularized by Briles at Baylor — had a scheme, but not on paper.
“‘What do you mean there’s no playbook?’” McNeal, now a receiver at Florida Atlantic, asked Gilbert. “‘Look, this offense is so simple, but it’s so hard to defeat that you don’t need it.’ So we don’t need it. It works for me, I like it.”