2018 UH Football Season Previews from Jimmy Schofield

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2018 Spring football primer: Offense

2018 Houston Cougars Football Spring primer By: Jimmy Schofield [image] photo courtesy houstonchronicle.com With the University of Houston men’s basketball team having its most successful season in decades, the football team looks towards its own version of “March Madness” as they take to the practice fields for 15 spring practices starting Monday March 5 with the annual Red-White game to be played on Saturday April 7 at TDECU Stadium. What needs to improve under second year head coach Major…

2018 Spring football primer: Defense

2018 Houston Cougars Football Spring primer: Defense By: Jimmy Schofield [image]photo courtesy uhcougars.com With the University of Houston men’s basketball team having its most successful season in decades, the football team looks towards its own version of “March Madness” as they take to the practice fields for 15 spring practices starting Monday March 5 with the annual Red-White game to be played on Saturday April 7 at TDECU Stadium. What needs to improve under second year head coach Majo…

2018 Spring game analysis/Summer primer

2018 Red White Spring game analysis By Jimmy Schofield [image]photo courtesy uhcougars.com The 2018 Houston Cougars held their annual Red/White game this past Saturday afternoon with the Red (first team offense and defense) over the White by a final of 31-17 on a cool windy day inside TDECU Stadium. While analyzing a spring game is difficult with the amount of “mixing and matching” as well as players not playing, our love at Coogfans supersedes that, so here we go! Offense After splitting t…

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2018 Houstons Cougar Football Preview Series: QB

2018 Houston Cougars Season Preview: Quarterbacks By: Jimmy Schofield [image] photo courtesy uhcougars.com With Fall practices quickly approaching, Coogfans.com takes a look at what’s in store for the upcoming season by previewing each position. Today we take a look at the quarterbacks. Under second year head coach Major Applewhite, the Coogs are looking to improve an offense that ranked 65th nationally in scoring average (28.2 points-per-game), 40th in total offense (429.8 yards-per-game), …

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: OL

2018 Houston Cougars Season Preview: Offensive line By: Jimmy Schofield [image] With Fall practices quickly approaching, Coogfans.com takes a look at what’s in store for the upcoming season by previewing each position. Last season’s run blocking game was quite offensive leading second year head coach Major Applewhite to hire veteran offensive line coach Randy Clements to revamp the blocking schemes. One misconception about new offensive coordinator Kendall Briles is that his offenses are pas…

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: Running Backs

2018 Houston Cougars Football Season Preview Series: Running Backs By: Jimmy Schofield [image] photo courtesy uhcougars.com During the magical 2015 season in which your Houston Cougars were crowned American Athletic Conference champions and culminated in winning the Peach Bowl over Florida State, one thing was constant; a dominating running game. The offense averaged 235 yards-per-game on the ground that year, ranking 13th nationally. In 2016 that total dropped nearly 100 yards to 147 per g…

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: Wide Receivers/Tight Ends

2018 Houston Cougars Season Preview WR/TE By: Jimmy Schofield [image] photo courtesy USA Today Wide receiver is a position which boasts plenty of talent on the 2018 squad, just a lot of inexperience. In losing multiple year starters Steven Dunbar and Linell Bonner to graduation, the duo takes with them a combined 380 career receptions, 4,700 yards and 24 TD’s. More importantly the receiver’s meeting room lost a lot of leadership. Who steps up? For the purposes of this article we’ll only loo…

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: Defensive Line

2018 Houston Cougars Season Preview: Defensive line By: Jimmy Schofield [image]photo courtesy uhcougars.com Entering his second full season as head coach, Major Applewhite is expecting big things from a defense that carried the team to a 7-5 record last year. More of the same will be expected this season as a new offense is installed. The “Third Ward Defense” allowed 274 passing yards-per-game to rank 120th nationally in 2017 under first year defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio. That’s out…

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: Linebacker

2018 Houston Cougars Season Preview: Linebackers By: Jimmy Schofield [image] The Houston Cougars defense has had some talented linebackers over the last decade, from Marcus McGraw to Derrick Mathews to Steven Taylor to Elandon Roberts, Tyus Bowser, Matt Adams and D’Juan Hines all at least getting a cup of coffee in NFL training camps if not playing in the league today. This year’s linebacking core hopes to keep the tradition going with an athletic if not experienced group under second year …

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: Secondary

2018 Houston Cougars Football Preview Series: Secondary By: Jimmy Schofield [image] Entering his second full season as head coach, Major Applewhite is expecting big things from a defense that carried the team to a 7-5 record last year. More of the same will be expected this season as a new offense is installed. The “Third Ward Defense” allowed 274 passing yards-per-game to rank 120th nationally in 2017 under first year defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio. That’s out of 130 FBS teams. New as…