Because of where UTEP is, and the conference they are in, they will never (going forward) be able to recruit players other than the ones others didn’t want and heavy on the JUCO’s. It is not where i would want to coach in an effort to move up from there.
What is there overall record against us? We have endured some butt kicking’s from them in the past!
Houston 6
UTEP. 4
Sounds like a bunch of excuses. Didn’t stop our other coaches from doing great things.
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He had a lot of good assistant coaches.
Yup, he just needs to accept that he was a subpar head coach. Learn from your mistakes, improve on them, and don’t blame others or throw others under the bus.
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You forget that Dana came in after Kim Helton had ruined Houston’s communication with most Texas high school coaches. Dana reopened the pipeline which others have built upon.
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What did he say that was wrong?
When he got here in 2000, our program was in the crapper. Helton somehow went 7-4 in 1999, but got fired anyway. Those teams in 2000 and 2001 were laughably untalented. Our facilities were absolute garbage. And our attendance was pathetic to non-existent.
Dimel was comically overmatched as a head coach, but as V says, he had a pretty good group of assistants. And he got some kids to come here that formed the basis for those early Briles teams.
I still wonder what would have happened if the Marshall coach Bob Pruett hadn’t backed out. Or If Tom Osborne had followed his gut and taken the job himself.
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Dimel bit the bullet and redshirted his entire class in 2001 and took the oh fer in order to rebuild the program the right way. If Barrick Nealy doesn’t blow out his ACL I think we have a winning season in 2002 and that might have saved his job. If you look at the roster of the 2006 CUSA Champs there were a lot of redshirt seniors that Dimel recruited so he does deserve a little credit for getting us back on the map after a decade of mismanagement by the previous regime.
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True statement jerrycoog92. Dimel laid the foundation for Briles to be successful in 2006. And for that, we should thank Dimel. Could he have made the progress that Briles did with the talent, that is up to debate. But he did re-open the doors to high schools in the area and he took it on the chin one year by redshirting basically the whole class that as jerrycoog92 stated was a big part of the 2006 season success.
Really starting with Dimel, each coach has brought value to the organization.
Dimel - questionable game coach but laid the foundation for Briles
Briles - Brought us up to another level and got our name back into the conversation
Sumlin - Took us another level, and if he had not been so short sighted, could have a Sugar Bowl win on his resume (we would of killed Michigan in that game) ESPN Game Day national recognition.
Levine - Questionable game coach and bad judge on asst coaches but had an incredible eye at identifying talent. Laid the groundwork for Herman.
Herman - Peach Bowl victory (national media almost every week)
Applewhite - Your next.
We have all aged over the last 15 years.
We all aged twice as fast when Helton was coaching.
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yes we did age twice as fast under Kim Helton.
Yes he had well rated classes on signing day. On the first day of practice though, a high rate of those guys had not actually made it into school. Of the ones that did, a high rate were gone after the first year.
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I don’t see how anyone can get upset on anything Dimel says about UH during his stay here if it’s not an outright lie. If you look at how many years we gave for Helton to attempt to shutter UH football, firing Dimel after just a third season seemed a bit preemptive. He inherited a team that had no local support from fans, media, students or high school coaches that was playing it’s home games in a high school stadium.
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