Coach Jenks turns 73 today. Some Run & Shoot highlights to celebrate…
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Loved the run n shoot. Great time to be a Cougar. Happy birthday coach.
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Mr. Jenkins after Mr. Yeaoman our best H.C.
Loved his passion, the red UH Boots, wearing all UH stuff all the time. Great guy!
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Pardee and Briles were better coaches…but hey, happy birthday coach!
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Pardee and Sumlin were better coaches !!
How is that?
10-1
10-1 while on probation.
10-1 with a reduced roster.
10-1 in a power conference.
I love Mr. Pardee but he never finished 10-1.
Briles and scumlin never coached UH in a power conference.
What Mr. John Jenkins did in 1990 is remarkable.
After that season still on probation and depleted roster we hit rock bottom. Our administration made one of the biggest mistakes that we could ever do. What happened after he left exemplifies how good he was.
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The SWC wasn’t very strong in 1990. The conference champion, Texas, got crushed by Miami in the Cotton Bowl. A&M was pretty good. They finished the regular season 8-3, and we split with UT and A&M. Only other team in the league with a winning record was Baylor with 6 wins. So we only played two bowl teams in conference (split), and we didn’t play anyone decent in non-conference games. UNLV was in the Big West and only won four games. Eastern Washington was an FCS school that we destroyed, and Arizona State only won four that year. We must have had one of the easiest schedules in college football, and the next two seasons we were a combined 8-14.
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And who was it that got us put on probation?
I liked Jenkins, but to me he was kind of goofy. He lost me when he pulled that crap against Illinois. We had the game intact, time running out and we had the ball. So he elects to have Klingler fake a knee and throw a touchdown pass…real classy…
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Jenkins to me was a great offensive coordinator but not head coach material. We threw him into which wasn’t what he was good at.
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Not very strong? You have power conferences that dominate their leagues but get beat in the playoff like Georgia. Are you telling SamHouston1 that the SEC is not strong? The answer will be no.
What Coach Jenkins did with the limited resources had was masterful.
Was he blackballed or just had no interest in returning to coaching?
That is a great question. Many coaches were not happy when we beat down on smu and many others. Mr. Jenkins is a genius. You can be sure he “unofficially” helped may coaches. I am curious to read comments from Coach on this.
Jenks had a great offensive mind and took advantage of schemes and mismatches, but I have to agree he was not a great head coach. A head coach has to balance offense, defense and special teams, and Jenkins was obsessed with offense. When defenses caught up to the Run & Shoot, his singular focus on offense, and inability to adapt, caused UH’s decline from 10-1 in 1990 to back-to-back 4-7 years. Notwithstanding the video controversy that got him fired, I know a lot of fans were tired of his arrogance and wanted him gone. You can be arrogant and the fans will look the other way when you are 10-1. But if you are arrogant with back-to-back 4-7 seasons, you are simply an arrogant you-know-what.
No, I’m not telling you the SEC is not strong. I’m telling you the SWC in 1990 was not very strong. As I mentioned, two of nine teams went bowling (UH would have if not for probation), and the conference champion was destroyed in the Cotton Bowl. UH, Texas, and A&M were good, but no one else was. SMU was terrible, and Arkansas only won three. Rice, TCU, and Tech had losing records; Baylor was 6-4-1. The conference was extremely strong in the 70s and into the first half of the 80s, but by the 90s, multiple probations and other issues made the SWC more like the ACC than the SEC.
Wasn’t Klingler. It was Donald Douglas.
We were on probation with a reduced roster. Do you guys even realize what a huge coaching accomplishment this is?
Finally the limited roster caught uo with him the following year and next. You can’t create gold with hot air.
There is no telling what Coach Jenkins abd our team then could have accomplished with no probation before his tenure and during his tenure.
No orher coached wanted to come to our program because of our probation. Guve credit where credit is due. Our admin made one of the biggest blunder if not the biggest to fire him.
We all know what came next.
I am always amazed of some the comments that I read on Coach Jenkins. That 10-1 season amazing and played in the dark just like Andre played.
Whether it was Klingler or Douglas, I know for a fact that David was outraged and embarrassed for the call…and so was I…and guess what, it truly came back to bite us and Jenkins did not survive long as head coach.
The Texas and TCU games were on TV. We had a great offense, but we probably weren’t a Top 10 team given that we barely got past TCU and only beat Rice by two. We got beaten badly by Texas, and defeated A&M in the last minute largely because they had six turnovers. I would rank the ‘90 team after 79, 73, 76, 78, 74, 69, ‘89, and 71. Pretty close with a few others like ‘70, 68, and 15. It probably was one of our ten best teams.
We were on probation with a limited roster. Why is it so hard to give Mr. Jenkins his credit for an historical season? Were you offended by the tape? Big freaking deal. Firing him was the biggest mistake that we made. We had kept him and got out of probation who knows where we could have been. Instead of fighting this uta/ncaa infused probation our administration wanted to kill our football program. I was in school at the time. That entire administration did not know what the f…k they were doing. They wanted to kill our football program. That was their intentions.
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