The UH Athletic Department announced they have hired Benny Wylie as new S/C Coach. I hope he can be as big an influence on our Players as Coach Hester,who was highly thought of by all involved. Coach Wylie has the best credentials and experience so I wish him all the best in taking care of our young men.
Go Coogs in 2026 !
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I see a lot of negative reactions in the Twitter verse. Hope this isn’t a D’Onofrio type of debacle
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There were a lot of “negative reactions “ about Coach Armstrong when he was hired as well.
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Based on what? His time at USC? Oklahoma?
Sounds impressive to me
During his time in college football, 56 collegiate stars trained under Wylie before hearing their name called in the NFL Draft. His teams won 16 bowl games, made two College Football Playoff or National Championship appearances and appeared in two BCS Bowl games.
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He’s a real fat ass. Obviously doesn’t know much about the gym.
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Sounds like Riley had to cut him and other staffers to save his neck from what I’ve read…
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Yes, a real slacker
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Does he even lift?
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Being buffed up and designing and implementing effective strength and conditioning programs are two completely different things, but the look doesn’t hurt… (Athletes like to know you can actually do it or actually did it, in the weight room.) His bio is impressive as heck and he sounds like he has a great deal of practical experience. I love he has track and field experience as well. His references are great and he sounds like he has good people skills. The bottom line is Strength & Conditioning is a people business and you have to have good people skills or you get zilch in the weight room. Wyle will be a great addition to UH athletics.
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The Houston Cougars have officially found their next strength and conditioning coach with the hiring of Bennie Wylie. The Texas native joins the Cougars after spending a year at Huntsville High School.
Before his time in Huntsville, Wylie spent time at the collegiate level with schools such as USC, Texas, and Oklahoma. He also spent time at the professional level with the Dallas Cowboys. In late April, the strength and conditioning coach was suddenly let go by USC head coach Lincoln Riley.
Houston set to hire Bennie Wylie as strength and conditioning coach
I think that since he spent 4 years with Riley at OU and 3 at USC, I think he must have been pretty good.
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He will be great for us because he has experience at the next level. Each level you move up requires a certain commitment that is greater than the level you’ve been at. The better you understand that and can transmit it to your athletes the better. He has that valuable experience.
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From what im reading he doesnt focus on football related strenght and conditioning but p90x and tae bo type workouts. Which is funny because armstrong was said to not be a good defensive coach and he was good with us. Sooooo idk hit or miss.
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Programs want guys to be big and strong, but the game of football itself is about SPEED, I’m talking about speed expressed in milliseconds. He will be fine
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Willie Fritz is in charge of S&C just like he’s in charge of the offense. Someone else has the title, but he isn’t changing what he wants in S&C. The focus will be similar or identical to what Kurt Hester did here.
Hester was not focused on heavy lift/bulk. 60 seconds with me from his first spring here:
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So there’s a rumbling that the USC p90x light and fast work was an ask from Grinch everyone everyone light and fast. Which on the front if you’re running a defensive scheme of aggressive hand use and gap shooting that can work save with if you want you o line zoning and getting in space.
But really who know hopefully this is just a case of Roller saving his butt and we’re getting lucky break of a guy falling in our lap.
When things go south it’s never the head coach in the beginning. It’s always the working stiffs that get first blame. I’m sure he’s a very good SC coach. Maybe Wiley wanted to keep playing Notre Dame. Lol
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This looks like a good hire to me. He was the S/C coach for Riley at both OU and USC. If there was a problem Wylie, that doesn’t happen. Plus Wylie was S/C coach at TT when Mike Leach had good teams there, and he was also S/C coach for Mack Brown at the end of his run at Texas.
I also noticed on his bio that he was a player and team captain at Sam Houston. That was prior to Fritz coaching there, but I wonder if Fritz already knows him from a connection there.
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I thought Riley’s early teams were soft. They were a lot tougher this year.
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It’s funny that you posted all that as if people don’t it.
Personally, I think he’ll make a great coach just because he’s in great shape. 
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Underrated post. The ND decision set him off, lmao
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