I don’t care if the new DC has struck a deal and is waiting for after his bowl game or playoffs to be announced. It’s one thing for a coach to be looking during the regular season or before a championship game, it’s another thing for a coach to do interviews during the Christmas holidays.
Whoever the coach is, his team has been ready for their bowl game for a while now. The tapes have all been reviewed, the plays have been set. There is nothing wrong with announcing a new job/promotion before a bowl game. It definitely didn’t distract Ohio State a couple of years ago.
If we really don’t know who the new DC is yet, that’s even worse.
I disagree. You saw what happened to our team when the players knew coaches were leaving. It shows Major wants to win with integrity and cares about his coaching staff.
We went the high road on all this as we could have had art briles. Will it pan out? I think we should wait till the end of the season next year to judge. On other note Art has never been convicted of a thing and isn’t it strange that a guy that consistently beats UT all of the sudden has all these issues? Strange to me.
Are you kidding me? You are going to blame Briles turning a blind eye to several rapists on the football team on UT? So far two players have been convicted and another is under indictment.
Applewhite has been handed the keys to a program with great facilities, a lot of talent on the roster, 20K+ season tickets, and a reasonable nonconference schedule.
If he does well next year or even 2018, we won’t really know if it’s him or if it’s “program momentum.” Year 3 will tell the tale on whether he was a good hire. See Rod Carey at Northern Illinois. Or Bill Blankenship at Tulsa.
Blankenship
8-5
11-3
3-9
2-10
Carey
12-2
11-3
8-6
5-7
On the other hand, if Applewhite is a bad hire, we’ll know sooner than Year 3. Seven wins or less next season and we’ll know we made a mistake.
Ridiculous comparison ! I could argue that Herman would go 4-8 by his 4th year using
THAT comparison…and save that program momentum BS…how much program momentum did Levine have going from 13-1 to 5-7?? yeah, ZERO, as it turns out, because he was a lousy coach. …If Major wins next year, that is HIS team, period…He’s the HC and we will be playing how HE wants us to…scheme wise…i expect us to be very successful…
Well, CTH went from 13-1 to 9-3. so, obviously next year he would be 7-5 and the following year 5-7 and then 3-9. Good thing he left before he took us on that skid! Man, we dodged the bullet there.
Funny thing is, I am not really mad that he left; just how. But, it is just another reason to hate the evil empire in Austin.
You’d expect us to be very successful next year, no matter who we hired.
And that’s the point.
Applewhite is inheriting a Rolls Royce. No Houston football coach has inherited a better set of (talent + facilities + fan support) his first year on the job.
UH’s FB program is steadily growing, but it is certainly not a Rolls Royce.
[NOTE: While there aren’t too many “Rolls Royce” college FB programs out there, the few that do exist have 100,000+ in average home attendance and a $125,000,000.00+ athletic program budget.]