Darrell Wyatt WR Coach Replaced by Kenny Guiton

coachv · April 21, 2017, 8:22pm

There’s more to it than that. I suspect that this was decided before now as Wyatt tried very hard to get the WR job at Zona .

UofHouston13 · April 21, 2017, 8:23pm

So what are your thoughts on Kenny Guiton?

ForeverCOOG · April 21, 2017, 9:14pm

Never knew this.

CougarRed · April 21, 2017, 9:36pm

He should know the offense (assuming we are using the same terminology). He played for Herman at Ohio State and coached here and at Texas with him.

And he’s from the Houston area.

Karst · April 22, 2017, 12:37am

He’s also been a GA here at UH for the past couple of years, so he should be very familiar with our offensive system.

pray10 · April 22, 2017, 1:12am

Rather a head coach make a move with his coaching staff now rather than after the first game.

UHGrad2019 · April 22, 2017, 1:39am

This may be a hard question to answer but I wonder what Kenny Guiton brings to the table that Darrell Wyatt doesn’t

Lovetherock · April 22, 2017, 4:39am

Kenny brings the juice.

pray10 · April 22, 2017, 5:11am

Could be that Wyatt didn’t have his heart in it as he was never really considered for the OC position even though he was held over from the previous staff. Could be that he’s upset that he wasn’t taken to UT with the rest. Could be that he was sending resumes out to find another job (see @coachv’s comment about going for the UA job and he was also linked with the Lamar head job) and Applewhite has stressed he wants coaches that want to be here. Could be that he wasn’t happy with the spring performance of the receivers or our recruiting efforts. Could be that he just didn’t mesh with our new OC. Whatever happened, Wyatt just found out in the last 3 days because he just tweeted out that he was ready to hit the road and begin recruiting.

With Guiton, they get a young guy that’s looking to prove himself and was well respected as a GA in the locker room so he’ll fit easily back into the locker room while also knowing the chain of command. Guiton was doing some recruiting for us prior to the bowl game so they probably were impressed with him in that area as well.

pray10 · April 22, 2017, 5:57am

https://twitter.com/CoachGuiton/status/855510457213493248

uhmump95 · April 22, 2017, 1:47pm

From those tweets former players are happy. This seems like a win dor us.

pray10 · April 22, 2017, 11:43pm

Another one:

https://twitter.com/G_Ward1/status/855796041681166336

ForeverCOOG · April 23, 2017, 8:54pm

Outside looking in, he seems to have buy in from the WR group and former players already. And he is only 25 I believe. Nice!

sarkcoog · April 24, 2017, 3:08am

We will never know what lead to this. I will say that the wide receiver performance at the Spring scrimmage was very poor. Looking forward to Coach Guiton coming back and getting this group ready to perform at a high level next year.

92010Coogs · April 24, 2017, 3:20pm

How unusual is this? You tell me. This is between two or more individuals. That should always stay there.
Now we could extrapolate but that is JUST extrapolate. I’ll take a try at it. Again, I am just guessing out there.
On the surface I don’t like it. Just a few months after getting the job we already have one issue. This issue should have not happened. Reasons that it happened? Did Major see it coming? Then we should have part ways when Major put his staff together. There were plenty of candidates available at that time. Bad receiving plays during our Spring game? That is usually the sum of weeks of training and here is lays the problem. Receivers and QB’s have distinctive assignments. They are not answering their duties right now. It is valid for both Wr’s and Qb’s Let’s hope this will be turned around quickly. Supposedly we are using the same playbook but players have graduated. Keep in mind that we now have in Allen a QB that is not Ward. They are very different from one another. The real problem for our offense is that we have two potential QB’s injured. That is a much bigger problem than it seems. It affects everybody. Allen needs the competition. He needs to have two/three players pushing him to excel. Postma has to have the worst luck possible. I still believe that if Postma had been given the proper chance he would have pushed Allen to the limits. This would have been a huge plus for us. Postma brings a different dimension to the position that Allen does not. This is where having RB’s performing well is a big plus. Let’s hope our OL can dominate the line of scrimmage and give us a running offense that will open up options for Allen. Good luck to Guiton. He has no time to waste.

UofHouston13 · April 24, 2017, 3:23pm

What does worrying about something you don’t know the answer to do for help?

2002Coog · April 24, 2017, 4:08pm

All Coog fans just shuddered.

WoodMarkCos · April 24, 2017, 4:49pm

As for me, I’ll just let Coach Applewhite do his job. He can make whatever staff changes he deems are prudent at any point in time. Preseason, mid season or post season, its doesn’t really matter to me.

ForeverCOOG · April 24, 2017, 9:14pm

In all actuality, Fall camp is when it really matters. I am anticipating some true freshmen competing for significant playing time. Let just hope we are not doing any coaching changes come August.

Coogfans2ndAdmin · April 24, 2017, 11:00pm

92010Coogs:

How unusual is this? You tell me. This is between two or more individuals. That should always stay there.Now we could extrapolate but that is JUST extrapolate. I’ll take a try at it. Again, I am just guessing out there. On the surface I don’t like it. Just a few months after getting the job we already have one issue. This issue should have not happened. Reasons that it happened? Did Major see it coming? Then we should have part ways when Major put his staff together. There were plenty of candidates available at that time. Bad receiving plays during our Spring game? That is usually the sum of weeks of training and here is lays the problem. Receivers and QB’s have distinctive assignments. They are not answering their duties right now. It is valid for both Wr’s and Qb’s Let’s hope this will be turned around quickly. Supposedly we are using the same playbook but players have graduated. Keep in mind that we now have in Allen a QB that is not Ward. They are very different from one another. The real problem for our offense is that we have two potential QB’s injured. That is a much bigger problem than it seems. It affects everybody. Allen needs the competition. He needs to have two/three players pushing him to excel. Postma has to have the worst luck possible. I still believe that if Postma had been given the proper chance he would have pushed Allen to the limits. This would have been a huge plus for us. Postma brings a different dimension to the position that Allen does not. This is where having RB’s performing well is a big plus. Let’s hope our OL can dominate the line of scrimmage and give us a running offense that will open up options for Allen. Good luck to Guiton. He has no time to waste.

You’ve never worked with anyone who is good and then takes a nose-dive? I have. People change, things happen. Using what you said, we don’t know, and speculation is just idle chatter. It’s much better this is found out now then in the fall.

Again, I think there are many fans who want to create an overt and covert narrative that Applewhite doesn’t know what he is doing, he’s in over his head, and so on. I think the real issue is that most of us feel deeply maligned by Herman, and want to displace those feelings on to Applewhite.

Applewhite may not work out and that will suuuuck if he does not. However, I don’t like all the negative pre-judgement. I think it hurts the program. My opinion.