When Art Briles arrived on campus after the disaster of the Helton/Dimel years, he was quoted as saying “Were not on the five year plan, were on the five minute plan”. With the changing landscape of college football, I think we find ourselves in a similar situation. After our performance yesterday, do we really have time for 3-5 year Willie Fritz rebuild, if he can indeed accomplish that? By that time Willie will be almost 70, and were probably looking for another HC anyway.
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Can’t average 30k and expect a couple people that prop up athletics to foot another bill. Just try and be realistic for a moment.
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Art Briles is the role model that all coaches should follow
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Art briles rocked while he was here but year one was not stellar
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Fans should realize that teams with big piles of NIL cash will most often be those teams which succeed. UNLV has a couple of flashy players? Not for long, as everyone is a free agent every year.
Willie can coach. He was coaching and teaching right to the final whistle. Now it is up to Nunez to help him get money to recruit and retain players. Without the money, we may occasionally be decent, but not consistently good to great.
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He also had a coach that recruited talent before him to work with. Willie might as well been left with mannequins and blowup dolls.
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Incentives and inducements for players are different now. Did you see Clemson get pwned yesterday? Clubbed like baby seals. Dabo is a terrific coach who will now get second-tier talent without buckets of money. Even five years ago many schools built nice facilities to help recruit because they couldn’t openly give players money.
$$$$ We can be okay without it, though not consistently great. And we don’t have $$$, at least not now. Fans need to move into the NIL/Pay-for-Play Era along with the players. Briles couldn’t do squat in this era without NIL cash. Saban bowed out. Not a coincidence.
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Year one was amazing! After 0-11 and Helton and dimel we went to the Hawaii bowl in year one.
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Memory failed me. You’re right. First bowl game in ages. Dayum
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What I saw from Fritz last night were flashes of disciplined, structured football. I saw a lot of it actually despite what the scoreboard reads.
I rarely saw that with Dana.
Now, having said that, last night was terrible. Our offense needs help. Our defense less so.
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Year 1 Art Briles was amazing. I was a 3rd year student at that time. That’s the season that turned me into a UH Football lifer.
Brules inherited a program in far worse shape, and there were big signs of hope and excitement from day 1.
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How’s Art Briles doing? I heard he’s doing well in the Italian football league. lol.
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It helps that Briles brought along Kevin Kolb from Stephanville with him and understood his system already.
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Briles was exciting but he only beat one top 20 team to my recollection. Fritz is the anti-Briles. A coach putting in the infrastructure to have winning seasons against far better competition for a decade.
I can stomach having our Oline run over game after game. But only for a year or so. Thereafter it’s just Astros tickets for me. I’m too frugal to pay money just to get angry.
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70 in 5 years is the only problem I have, while i beleive Fritz will turn it around; it will be slow much thanks to things like NIL and the portal that will work against the coogs being one of the lower P4 in financial resources. Could be competitive in year 2 or 3 but getting to the top of the conference going to be hard under 5 years without a lights out QB and todays college football makes it really hard to land and keep one of those. About the coogs best chance is that they are in Houston, one of the largest areas to pull local talent that may want to stay home. otherwise, going to be a long road.
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Btw, Briles went 16-20 in his first 3 years at UH. So it was ok to give Briles time to build with a future starting NFL QB (Kolb) with Briles having success in year 4, but we don’t allow Fritz some time to build? lol ok.
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It’s a shame our $200k+ year alums (which are many) don’t want to support our program. They could make the difference. We have a small cadre of super alums that foot our facilities. It’s the 3rd and 4th tier that could really make a difference.
Hopefully our new AD has plans to meet with those folks. There are literally hundreds within a 25-minute drive of campus. They could be our designated NIL faction.
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Nah, Briles ran an offense with two and three star players at the G5 level. He just had a knack for finding talented QB’s and ran a scheme that no one could figure out. He would do just fine without a loads of NIL money.
Unfortunately, UH fans are looking for fireworks on offense. Sadly, those days are now long gone and quite frankly, I’m a little jealous of teams like UNLV that run exciting creative offenses.
It’s just my opinion, but I’ve never thought you have age would have the overall talent to help muscle teams in the trenches like some of the pay for schools. I’ve always believed we need to run a creative offense to beat teams with more talent. I mean, if it was up to talent alone, then A&M and UT would be playing for championships every year.
Without him losing players to the promises of a bag of cash. This is different. We built facilities to not be at a disadvantage, but the game changed and now we are again at a disadvantage.
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Year 2 under Briles was pretty bad though.
3-8 as I recall.
That was Briles’ “freebie” sucky season.
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