Can you accelerate the time frame please? Some of us are happy if we make it to dinner.
Actually, Alabama just hired a GM to do exactly that.
With Saban gone, the “program” has the leverage not the coach.
In the Pros…you can always tell who has the power hierarchy…the GM or Coach.
Long overdue for that model to permeate down to the college level… especially with NIL level Free Agency now the norm
Let the Coach worry about X’s and O’s, let the GM worry about recruiting and NIL strategies
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Willie don’t have seven years
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Then I can understand why Saban retired.
I don’t blame him for not wanting to work under a GM.
The head coach sets the culture.
That said, I think we probably should hire an “Assistant AD for NIL Coordination,” or something to that effect.
But a GM that would outrank the head coach?
No.
Does Bama do that in any other sport, just out of curiosity?
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Just for the record, the “GM” hire was a DeBoer move. It happened after Saban’s departure.
Times are a-changing, Law.
Your old opinion of college football doesn’t hold water and soon schools will realize that throwing crazy NIL $$ around (i.e. Texas A&M and FSU) does not equal quality players.
You still have to build a cohesive complementary team
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You are missing context and it’s been clarified many times on here but people keep bringing it up. She was saying just because you go 8-4 doesn’t mean you’re automatically safe from being fired. She was not saying 8-4 isn’t good enough and that, that will cause you to be fired.
The HC doesn’t need a GM to do that.
The HC sets the culture, not a guy in a suit.
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I don’t think a lack of NIL is the culprit by itself. I think the loose transfer rules are. UT has always paid players. It’s just that now they don’t need to offer millions in inducements to every hotshot recruit as a freshman. When they have a hole to fill they can just steal them one at a time. So, we were able to have great seasons before when we were outspent. But we had great systems to win with. I think Willie can get there. But not with Barbay. We’ll never outspend UT. We just need to learn to win with great game plans and using each player’s talent to our advantage.
Case in point. Our defense isn’t heavy NIL but they’ve played teams well enough to win in all but one game so far. Do the same with the offense and we’re instantly competitive.
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More schools are contemplating GMs to handle roster management and NIL. You need an administrative type to handle these responsibilities. I remember reading a few months ago that Jimbo Fisher refused to hire a GM and that was one of his many downfalls.
It doesn’t really matter what the title is, as long as you give that responsibility to an administrator, and let the coaches do what they do best, coach football, you cover two of the changes in college football that are hurting some programs.
Let’s be smart about this and use the rules to UH’s advantage.
Maybe next we will only play regional games and travel by train. Times are changing.
I think you are a little hard on Levine. He had a winning record, coached us in 3 bowls, including beating a ranked Penn St. He was a good recruiter for Sumlin and it was mostly Levine’s guys in Herman’s big first year. Remember the administration’s comment "We fire coaches with 8-5 records. Just saying.
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False. He missed a bowl game by one (lost two games by a total of three points) his second year and then went to three consecutive bowls his third through fifth years. He made Tulane, which essentially isn’t much different from Rice, a Top 10 team–remarkable. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a year or two to rebuild what the program was turned into under Holgerson.
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The other elephant in the room is the large under-construction operation center, I think we will start seeing an uptick in the recruiting once it is completed. This was always going to be a throw away year, we lost and ran off guys that got large paydays at other programs and replaced them with working class players that did not need NIL and wanted to play from Fritz. Once we figure out this new RRO offense hopefully we will win the 2.5 games we were projected to.
I like where your head is at….but I’d be broke in no time.
Not to be that guy but Levine only coached in two bowls as he’d already been let go before the Pitt game in 2014. As for the Penn St game, that win belongs to a certain 6th year senior QB. CTL deserves minimal credit for that one.
Wasnt Kliff still around? I think he would get a lion share of credit as well.
Well they were good hires for those guys as they are very wealthy now. None of them have a sh!t about UH.
Apple Boy was a reactionary bad hire from the get go !!
I am still wondering if UH interviewed any other coaches before CWF was hired !
I posted about this a few years ago but hitting rock bottom for football in the big 12 might be a necessity. As long as it remains a power conference with this strong schedule, business leaders will step up in the $ game and make us better. The tax revenue for 35-40% of Texans games in Harris County is too alluring to ignore. We have a new AD that will splash this. How long will it take? I don’t think 7 years.
If the coach would seriously embrace the air raid offense, you will get top shelf QB and WR recruits regardless of NIL or any of that. Air raid guarantees the QB and receivers will be in the media spotlight and have the opportunity to put up numbers that the NFL recruiters will notice. That’s what UH football culture is all about. People will watch high scoring shootouts regardless of whether UH wins every game or not.
Now if a certain coach is lukewarm on air raid, then that’s not a recipe for success at UH.