Oregon promotes Matt Lubick to be Ducks' offensive coordinator

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SAN ANTONIO — When Matt Lubick was mulling whether to accept an Oregon job offer in 2013 after three successful years at Duke, he was nervous about becoming the new guy on a staff with some of the deepest ties in college football.

It appears any worries were unfounded.

Three seasons later, Lubick has been promoted from wide receivers coach to offensive coordinator, where he will succeed Scott Frost.

"Matt is extremely detail-oriented, he's a very good recruiter and players really take to him," said coach Mark Helfrich, whose staff has undergone a shakeup against the backdrop of the Alamo Bowl twice in the past three seasons, after the retirement of defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti in 2013.

"Just tireless," Helfrich said of the 43-year-old Lubick at an Alamo Bowl news conference alongside TCU's Gary Patterson. "He was kind of the outsider that came in and added a bunch to it and at the same time meshed into a great group."

Helfrich, who himself was promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach, has now hired both play callers of his head-coaching tenure from within, which continues Oregon's penchant for continuity by design. The job was vacant for the past month after Frost departed to become Central Florida's coach Nov. 29.

"As a group our continuity as an offensive staff is a big strength," Helfrich said.

The promotion of Lubick was expected, as he was viewed as the presumptive favorite to land the job after receiving praise from Oregon's staff and players not only this past month, but the past three seasons, for his attention to detail. In early December, Helfrich noted UO had "total confidence" in him, and Lubick played a key role right from the start after Frost's departure as among the first UO staffers to contact incoming graduate transfer Dakota Prukop.

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