Remember when he stole these guys? Yea, they were at our tailgate eating Popeye’s chicken. The future looked bright.
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I think Art is going to blow it out in short order. He has the Odessa/Permian area, which is booming, to recruit. There’s minimal talent in El Paso but you can pick up a couple.
I bet in 2 years, a bigger school will come calling
Baylor loves the guy, they had a short clip of him in their pregame video.
My grandpa grew up in various dugout homes outside of Clovis, during the Dust Bowl era. His parents were sharecroppers, but were able to eventually buy some land after he and his brother moved out. Half the land is contaminated with PFAS from Cannon AFB and the other half has no topsoil… just caliche.
I’ve seen what it looks like in modern times, but can’t imagine how bad it was during the Dust Bowl.
It boggles the mind that humans could survive in that environment, living solely off that barren land. Those were some tough SOBs.
Briles isn’t at the absolute bottom of the barrel, but he’s not far from it. ENMU plays in a 4,000 seat stadium in a state that just doesn’t produce many football players. Lucky for him he’ll get a few guaranteed wins every year in Sul Ross and Western New Mexico.
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He’s 70 years old so IDK how many schools are going to make a long-term investment in a coach past the twilight of his career, but I can see he and Kendal taking a job together and having a few good years before handing of the reins.
I agree he is a great coach. Probably only second to bill yeoman at uh. To bad we couldn’t keep him.
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True. There’s still enough El Paso kids that can play at the D2 level.
Hmmm…wouldn’t put him ahead of Jack Pardee or Bill Meek. Probably not Herman or Sumlin either.
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LOL… Oh wait, you are serious…
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Agree. The Baylor years have a Mandela effect on people’s memory but Briles did not do all that much here.
Pardee, if only because of this:
1987 Houston 60 - texas 40
1988 Houston 66 - texas 15
1989 Houston 47 - texas 9
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You can’t be serious. Four bowl games and a conference title BESIDES reviving our left for dead program. Pulllllease.
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How many ranked finishes did he have?
How many Heisman winners did he produce at UH?
Did he ever beat UT or aTm?
All right then.
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Not only no ranked finishes, but the team never had a ranking at any point, his entire five seasons here.
No bowl wins. I don’t think he even had any ranked wins. One 10-4 season in a very weak CUSA where we lost to ULL.
I’m thankful for his contributions, but Fritz is already about to pass him up.
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No doubt there but we wouldn’t be having this discussion without him.
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It should be possible to keep two thoughts in our heads, “he did good things for Coogs FB” and “he likely should not be a head CFB coach again”.
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He also had to have Dave Maggard bully him into firing a DC that made Mark D’Onofrio look like Buddy Ryan.
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You purposely not include HC John Jenkins. By finishing 10-1 this IMO an amazing coach accomplishment while on probation for his entire tenure tenure and a reduced roster.
HC John Jenkins was the Run N Shoot, not Jack Pardee. HC John Jenkins CHOOSE to stay on with UH while knowing we were on probation and with a reduced roster. I love Mr. Pardee but he took the Oilers job.
Furthermore and for everyone that compares UH HC’s. Mr. John Jenkins finished 10-1 while in a power conference not in a g5 conference.
Following the World Cup draw, your post law deserves a red card. You have made that omission multiples times.
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John Jenkins had two losing seasons out of three.
Herman, Pardee, and Meek all did better.
Jenkins did have one Top Ten finish though, and had wins over aTm and UT.
Even he is ahead of Briles in that regard.
You purposely ignore the facts. HC John Jenkins should have never been fired. It set us back years.
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Back to back 4 win seasons will get a lot of coaches fired.
Just ask Dana Holgerson.
I agree that Helton and Dimel were far worse.
But you’d be one of the few that would say that Jenkins’ record at UH was better than the people I listed.