I usually notice a slower start when weve been off for a long time like thursday off saturday and play the following saturday. Regardless long stop and short breaks hurt us bad with our dept.
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If you break it down into 4 game blocks, I like us going 3-1 in each. Pretty balanced schedule.
Sat. 9/1 at Rice
Sat. 9/8 Arizona
Sat. 9/15 at Texas Tech
Sat. 9/22 Texas Southern
Rice and TSU are gimmies, Arizona and Tech are tough so splitting would not be bad. 4-0 is possible if the offense gets rolling quickly (FAU had a slow start last year though)
Thu. 10/4 Tulsa (ESPN)
Sat., 10/13 at ECU
Sat. 10/20 at Navy
Sat. 10/27 USF
No bad Tulsa or ECU loss allowed, at Navy and USF are tough so a split would not be bad.
Sat. 11/3 at SMU
Sat. 11/10 Temple
Thu. 11/15 Tulane (ESPN)
Fri. 11/23 at Memphis
Dont care the game is in Dallas, SMU and Temple need to be wins. Tulane on a short week is hard and at Memphis should be fun. If coaching is good and no major injuries, we can go 4-0 here and nothing less than 3-1 is acceptable.
9-3 with 6-2 in conference may or may not get us in the championship game depending on who we lose to. Having Memphis and Navy on the road is not good for us.
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I kind of read it the same way. If we donât go at least 9-3 with this schedule then MA needs to be in a win or get fired situation for 2019.
AAC title game or bust!
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www.sports-reference.com starts UH football in 1949. We have won 54.3% of our games since then. Without the 9 years of darkness, 1993-2002, our winning percent jumps to 58.6% good for 36th place on the all-time winning percent list.
The recent history starting with the 2003 season shows we have won 62.6% of games in the last 14 years. To say last year was a rebuilding year is not inaccurate. If EECOOG69 wants to call it âFallenâ fine. It was an off year in any case.
I know we canât ignore what happened in the dark ages. The goal should be to see that it nevers happens again.
UH is a perennial football winner, the dark ages notwithstanding. We are also perennially competitive with the so-called P5 programs, even the best of them.
Sometimes, last season especially, we play like a second tier program but that isnât who we are. Last year was an outlier. I am ready to get back to normal. GO COOGS!!!
I forgot the stats on the original post. Gotta have stats!!
| Coach | From | To | Yrs | G | W | L | T | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clyde Lee | 1949 | 1954 | 6 | 60 | 32 | 26 | 2 | 0.550 |
| Bill Meek | 1955 | 1956 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 0.675 |
| Hal Lahar | 1957 | 1961 | 5 | 49 | 24 | 23 | 2 | 0.510 |
| Bill Yeoman | 1962 | 1986 | 25 | 276 | 160 | 108 | 8 | 0.594 |
| Jack Pardee | 1987 | 1989 | 3 | 34 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 0.662 |
| John Jenkins | 1990 | 1992 | 3 | 33 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0.545 |
| Kim Helton | 1993 | 1999 | 7 | 78 | 24 | 53 | 1 | 0.314 |
| Dana Dimel | 2000 | 2002 | 3 | 34 | 8 | 26 | 0 | 0.235 |
| Art Briles | 2003 | 2007 | 5 | 62 | 34 | 28 | 0 | 0.548 |
| Kevin Sumlin | 2008 | 2011 | 4 | 52 | 35 | 17 | 0 | 0.673 |
| Tony Levine | 2011 | 2014 | 4 | 38 | 21 | 17 | 0 | 0.553 |
| Tom Herman | 2015 | 2016 | 2 | 26 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0.846 |
| Major Applewhite | 2016 | 2017 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0.583 |
| From - To | Years | Games | W | L | T | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 - 1992 | 43 | 472 | 269 | 189 | 14 | 0.570 |
| 1993 - 2002 | 9 | 112 | 32 | 79 | 1 | 0.286 |
| 2003 -2017 | 14 | 190 | 119 | 71 | 0 | 0.626 |
| 1949 - 2017 | 66 | 774 | 420 | 339 | 15 | 0.543 |
| 1949 - 92; 2003 - 17 | 57 | 662 | 388 | 260 | 14 | 0.586 |
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And that, friends, is how you make lemonade from lemons. Bravo. 
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Well,
On a personal note, it is easier for me to make the Thursday night games (as âbusiness tripsâ) so I can pencil in two games for this year, and I usually bring 2-3 others with me!
One only disturbing fact of the list is that Kim Heltonâs coaching tenure was #2 behind Bill Yeoman and his winning percentage ranks as the second worst of our history. Remind me again how he was able to earn 7 years as UH head coach?
Our administration didnât give a crap
Wait until 2019 ??
I hear what youâre saying. The Tulane game last year was not a function of a long layoff. It was the result of poor coaching and poor preparation.
We, the fans on this board, love to duke it out over poor coaching vs poor player execution. Only the players know for sure. Manster did a great job showing how we had a LOT of missed assignments defensively vs Tulane. We were in the correct defensive call but our guys just muffed it.
Offensively, I donât know. I tend to lean toward bad play calling. Going for it on 4th down early in the game while well within field goal range is a bad call. We go to OT if we kick it there like we should have.
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Thursday games, yuk. But, they are at night.
For a conference that loves to stick us in the 11am Saturday slot, these are night games, yes.
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That is pretty much how I have begun to look at it.
That is 7.5 wins per year since 2003, which according to everyone here is unacceptable. Remember⊠one season of 7-5 or 8-4 is not a problem, but consistently achieving these marks will get you fired. IMO, that is a good thing, but 7 to 8 wins per year is our average. The 2015, the 2011, and the 2006 teams are the only teams to get to double-digit wins in that period, which shows we are due for a really good team every 4 to 5 years. With the coaching turnover, it is no wonder.
We have 1-2 inexplicable losses every year. Last year, it was Tulsa and Tulane. SMU in 2016. UConn in 2015, and so on⊠year after year. You are either new to UH football, or you are forgetful.
According to the very numbers your threw out there⊠no⊠no, it wasnât.
This is true. We do compete with the P5, because we are really good at getting talent. Hanging on to coaches is the issue. Any coach that shows he can coach that talent to beat P5 teams is automatically on everyoneâs next head coach at X university list.
I am not saying that we should not aim for better. I believe our current administration is trying to do just that. I applaud them for it, but some of the fans on this board tend to believe that we are a lot better than we really are right now, and that the teams we play are a lot worse than they actually are.
When people buy in to those delusions, they start making irrational predictions, comments, and rants about how Applewhite should be fired and Kendal hired; or we should never lose to Tulane, when Tulane has been on a serious upward trajectory since hiring Fritz; or like you, posting past records without realizing those records are proof of what I am saying.
Facts donât care about our feelings, folks. Facts:
Since 1996 (the inception of CUSA), UH has the following:
- 3 conference championships in the last 22 seasons
- only 4 bowl wins in 13 appearances⊠4 against 13!
- 2 top 25 finishes in 22 seasons
- a record of 138-123 across all competitions for a 52.9% win percentage or an average of 6.27 wins per year.
- 7 head coaches
- only 3 seasons with double-digit wins
I love this team, and I love this school, but those are the facts. Have we been on an upward trajectory? Yes. Do we have the facilities and administrative support to continue that trajectory? Yes. Are we there yet? No. Are we in a competitive conference, where if we donât bring our A-game, we will get our butts handed to us⊠even by Tulane? Absolutely.
This is where we are folks. Doesnât mean you have to be happy about it, but this is where we are.
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That TSU game is just out there and is an island. I wish we had negotiated a ten year deal with them with basketball instead. Not to be an elitist, but when you are not P5, you need to schedule as tough an OOC schedule as possible. The TSU game does nothing for our sos or anything else.
SOS seems rather meaningless unless youâre talking about potentially being selected to participate in the 4 team national championship FB playoffs. And since no Non-P5 team is really eligible under the current selection program, what difference does strength of schedule make? IMHO, letâs go out and complete an undefeated season (including our bowl game) and then - and only then - should we be concerned about our strength of schedule.
We need to focus on more national publicity and visibility and that includes being more than happy to play and win even more nationally televised games on Thursday nights. In that regard, letâs become the next Louisville.
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I donât know about that. Heâs only been there 2 years and theyâve achieved exactly 1 additional win each year heâs been there. A little soon and a little lackluster to call it a âserious upward trajectoryâ at this point.
i agree. much rather face them in basketball than football. only swac school worth playing in fb is grambling or alcorn st.
Look at the dramatic improvement in SRS ratings. Johnsonâs last team was 2 touchdowns worse than the average team, while Fritzâs team last year was only 2 points worse than average.
See explanation of SRS calculations here:
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