This is not just a Dana issue with transfers not working out. With the portal, the volume has increased dramatically so we will continue to have the potential for more not to work out but there have been heralded P5 transfers that never really panned out at UH. Some of it probably was talent level and some of it probably fit or coaching (Kyle Allen comes to mind). I recall a highly regarded Tennessee transfer on the DL that picked UH and was expected to crush the lowly C-USA OLs facing UH. There were flashes of that but in no way did he dominate.
We all want the best for UH. Probably best to avoid getting too high or too low on the program, the recruits, the transfers, etc.
Truth is that more than half of ALL recruits (HS or Transfer) donât work out at any college FB program.
Itâs simple math really - each year, a program wants to sign 25 new scholarship players so they have to reduce their roster to 60 carryover scholarship players (85 total - 25 new = 60 carryover.) And so with 4 previous recruiting classes (including a red-shirt season) there were originally 4 x 25 = 100 recruited scholarship players of which only 60 can still remain on scholarship - for an overall 40% wash-out rate. Then, when you consider that this includes all the redshirt freshmen, sophomores, juniors & seniors - this also means that while the redshirt freshmen & sophomore classes will likely still have more than 60% carryover, the junior & senior classes will likely have less than 60% carryover.
So in most programs, the senior class will have less (often far less) than 50% of their originally recruited players. And this doesnât really change whether they were HS or Transfer players. So itâs normal and systemic and it is to-be-expected!
By way of example, the 2018 UH class (with QB Clayton Tune) going into the 2020 season roster had already lost 10 of the 24 recruited players - a to-be-expected wash-out rate of 42% within 2 years. And so next year (Tuneâs redshirt junior year) we can reasonably expect to see the wash-out rate from his class increase to ~50% - which is typical and systemic across all of college football.
You never know with recruits now and the portal is a quick way to exit. I wonder if Elandon Roberts would have hung around for his breakout senior season if the transfer portal would have been there.
The UT LB had a good freshman year and then got hurt last season. If he gets healthy, he will be a nice pick up for whoever gets him. Auburn RB looks solid, he is from south Florida so maybe UCF or USF will go after him.
I think Tennessee wanted him on the OL and he didnât want to play thereâthatâs what Iâm remembering anyway. Briles once said that that was the guy you have get off the bus firstâintimidatingly big. But not a great career. As I recall, he had some injury issues (including a bout with MRSA or something like that).
4 years. Cinci has had 5 coaches since art was hired to our 6. Luke took over for a 4-8 tommy tubberville that had 3 winning seasons in a row. He went 4-8 his first year, 11-2, 11-3 and 9-1 and has basically been ranked since.
Also it just hit the news that their qb will use the covid exception and return next year. They are light years ahead of us and currently have a ridiculously good recruiting class for next year already while wrapping up a great year this season. I hate that we are behind anything that comes from a city where they put spaghetti noodles in their chili.
How about 4 years of coaches (Herman and Applewhite) that did nothing to help the program?
Herman rode the coattails of someone elseâs work meanwhile undermining our team. Applewhite did us no favors other than ride down further into the ground what Herman started. Another few years of those two and we would have been U Mass.
We are still recovering from that gruesome twosome and from what I see, very nicely.
Yes, Iâm the one acting 11 when Iâm just calling out a dude who he himself created a topic whining about our recruiting numbers. Donât want to be called out, donât make premature posts. Not sure where you fit into all of this. I guess uninformed complainers will continue to defend uninformed complainers. Oh yeahâŠ
Yes xsmithcoog - all those premature posts whining about our early recruiting numbers are looking more and moreâŠwell, letâs be nice and sayâŠunintelligent.
Whatever. The recruiting #s are not good , the W/L recrds are not good , heâs not wrong. Just bc you are a Big CDH supporter, doesnât mean us non- believers in CDH canât mention the shortcomings so far these 2 yrs. UC is light yrs ahead of Coogs in both categories, I mention. Ok back to your thing now, u can include me also if u want.
Edit: I applaud the transfers but it still doesnât do anything for the fact that he hasnât made any inroads w H.S. Coaches in the Greater Houston area these last 2+ yrs. Thatâs where his long term success is going to need to come from.
. Youâre acting abt 11.