UNIVERSITY PARK -- Graduate assistant G.J. Kinne will call plays for SMU during the Frisco Bowl game against Louisiana Tech, quarterback Ben Hicks said Thursday.
Former head coach Chad Morris and offensive coordinator Joe Craddock have both accepted the same jobs at Arkansas, as have most of SMU's former offensive staff. New head coach Sonny Dykes runs an Air Raid offense, not Morris' power-spread attack, so the responsibility of calling plays falls into the hands of Kinne, who worked mostly with the offensive line during his first season at SMU.
Hicks, who is playing a large role in SMU's game planning for the Frisco Bowl, said that he will have some freedom to make his own decisions at the line of scrimmage while Kinne monitors from above.