Robert Damien "Bob" DeBesse (born September 30, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American football

American football

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 coach

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.

DeBesse attended Stratford High School in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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 and earned his bachelor of science

Bachelor of Science

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 in Education at the Texas State University-San Marcos in 1982.

He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Texas State, before being hired as an offensive assistant to Jim Wacker

Jim Wacker

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 at Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University

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. In 1990 he was appointed offensive coordinator

Offensive coordinator

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. DeBesse followed Wacker to Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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 in 1992. He succeeded Jim Bob Helduser

Jim Bob Helduser

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 as head coach

Head coach

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 at his alma mater in 1997. After mediocre success, DeBesse was replace by Manny Matsakis

Manny Matsakis

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 in 2003. He joined Joe Tiller

Joe Tiller

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's staff at Purdue

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 as wide receivers coach.

From 2006–2007, he coached the same position under Dennis Franchione

Dennis Franchione

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 at Texas A&M

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. 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.