Go Coogs
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Applewhite put UH football on life support.
Dana tried to finish it off.
Fritz did CPR and an emergency surgery.
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Fritz came in with the Narcan 
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If we had hired Fritz in 2018 instead of Dana, he most likely would be starting his 9th year as our HC.
How much better off we would be today given his personal and professional attributes: experience, work ethic, temperament, devotion, intelligence, and humility versus Holgerson’s?
I know, I know……
Could’ve, should’ve, would’ve.
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Fritz didn’t turn Tulane around until 2022
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But he had turned SHSU around by then…
Fritz registered a winning season at Tulane after two years. Holgerson registered a winning season at UH after two years.
It took Holgerson three years to register a double digit winning season. Fritz in his second year.
Are you suggesting Fritz would not be as successful if he was hired here earlier?
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No
My point is that Fritz wasn’t even on anyones radar at the time.
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Might’ve gotten poached before his 9th year…remember, in 2018 we were still in the G5 with no serious viable option to sneak into the P5.
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Just wishful thinking on my part. Tilman wanted Dana and the rest is an unfortunate page in UH history.
What we do know is CWF is a darn good HC who truly wanted the UH job.
He was. He had been on our radar for years.
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Lol we also coulda had the Meme Meister, Lane Kiffin, right after Herman.
Could you imagine Lane stopping by at Rooftop?
Yik-Yak would’ve been popping off with LEGENDARY rumors about him
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The last thing UH needed was another Herman type using us as a pit stop on his way to the SEC.
Kiffin was at Florida Atlantic 2017-2019.
He went to Ole Miss in 2020.
If we hired him in 2018 and Ole Miss came calling, away goes Kiffin and we would have once again demonstrated to the football coaching world that the UH football program can’t be taken seriously.
Fritz would have been the better choice and indeed is proving to be so.
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Fritz went 2-10 in 2021 at Tulane. His best record at Tulane up to that point was 7-6 . So his first 6 years at Tulane his record was 30-51.
True enough, but you left out some compelling data.
His record at Tulane in 2022 was 12-2, which included winning the Cotton Bowl, and a win over UH.
In 2023, Tulane finished 11-2. Fritz’s overall record as the Tulane HC was 54-47.
Let’s leave out the 35-1-1 record at Blinn, which resulted in two NCs and focus on his overall record at Central Missouri, Sam Houston State (two NC runner-up title games) and Georgia Southern where he comprised a combined W/L record of 149-69.
Add Tulane to the mix…184-120.
Bill Yeoman’s overall record was 160-108-8.
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Timing in life is maybe everything. I’m sure his record would have been different here but I’m not sure where other than Tulane he would have gotten to stay after going 2-10 in his 6th year
Fritz has worked wonders every place he has been. I wanted him to come to Houston from Sam. After some of the hires we’ve had, Fritz is a blessing.
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Fortunately Tulane kept him and they were rewarded with a 23-4 record the next two years.
Come on, we’re talking Tulane with a limited athletic budget, not to mention a university that lies below sea level. 
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I like the product on the field. I think the timing worked out
He took over a program that was, historically speaking, one of THE WORST in all of college football. Look at the trend line…
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/tulane/index.html
He obviously had them getting better year after year after year, took them to bowl games and won them. 2021 was a year where no program in college football faced what the Green Wave had to deal with. There are numerous stories about it, here’s just one of them.
Rebuilding Tulane, with their incredibly high academic admissions requirements. Was NEVER going to be an easy task for anyone. And the leadership and grit he displayed in 2021 made that 2-10 season a high mark, not a low one.
UH is blessed to have him as their Head Football Coach. Your attempts to belittle his success is laughable, at best… more likely just shortsighted and petty.