What was the original guarantee on his contract? Just giving him that 3 year extension and guaranteeing the original years would have been a nice gesture to Dana. Giving him an additional fully guaranteed year plus two 50% guaranteed years was a lot. We should be looking at a $4.5 million buyout right now, maybe like 7 max.
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He is flat out lazy.
No way in the world any P-5 program much less one in Houston, Tx. Should be this poor.
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True he has done wonders for the school. Does that give him carte blanche on wrecking the football program? Not for me.
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The problem with recruiting and bringing CDH back is telling recruits âwe are building something special at UH and we want you to be a part of itâ rings hollow. That vision, like Elvis Presley, has left the building. CDH has had 5 years to build something special and will finish this season at sub .500. No recruit will fall for that recruiting pitch.
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He got a new contract replacing the old one that was basically the same buyout as the first. It wasnât just 3 years added at the end.
If he sucks at recruiting then what in tarnation makes anyone think he can resurrect the program with 2nd and 3rd stringers from other schools.
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Can we start a Gofundme for Danaâs buyout?
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Most people on this board donât believe recruiting will change under CDH.
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West Virginia warned us about CDH and his lazy recruiting and mediocre record and his unprofessional ism demeanor âŠ
Miami warned us about Coach No DâŠ
Maybe we should listen when other fan bases point out there are more red flags surrounding our hire than at Chinese communism rally
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Yeah, some called it a 6 year extension, but was a new contract with 4 additional years added on (22 and 23 were the same salary as original deal). I was asking how many of the original years were guaranteed. It appears it was 3, then 60% guaranteed for years 4 and 5. An extension just guaranteeing 100% of 2022 and 2023 along with partial guarantees of 2024 and 2025 seems like it would have made a lot more sense and still been fair. At most, give him some of 2026 too. We were at a point where we had to extend him, but doing 4 years made no sense, especially with that much guaranteed.
We negotiated against ourselves. The extension was the right thing to do but the buyout was insane.
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Yup. Extension made sense but not the buyout. No P5 AD would hire him at that $ w buyout after 2 horrible seasons & 2021 the easiest schedule in school history.
A huge 2022 would have put him in the mix.
Considering Top 40-50 in HC and staff salaries, etc.
Youâd like to see this DH at .500 vs .500 and over teams,
WVU refusing to extend him before his last coaching season at WVU was the Dana warning.
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The problem is those nimrods always warn us too late.
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Itâs too bad that Fertitta will never make anything of himself because he apparently didnât read some stupid self-help book you think he should have. Good post! /s/
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He made into himself into THE DON OF HOUSTON!
Iâd definitely say he made himself into something.
Nice try if you think hiring his drunk lazy friend, who also happened to be a BAD coach, was a good idea.
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Even zagillionaires can make mistakes.
IMO it was just good old fashioned nepotismâŠâŠhe got his burned out buddy one last big paycheckâŠ.
The university was straight up fleeced.
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I agree, well said Mike.
Yeah, it is. Just not overtly
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much like the wrestling vernacular - we the fans are just âmarksâ - unfortunately
whilst guys like Dana get wealthy beyond their imaginations
âTo be a wrestling âmarkâ is to be someone who buys into the emotion and characteristics of the storyline and characters . All wrestling fans are marks, some to different levels of it than others. It isnât a bad thing, you enjoy the entertainmentâ
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- Perhaps he feels suffocated by Feritta in terms of being the fall guy and having his hands tied on certain decisions, including the structure of the CDH contract possibly, that he feels he shouldnât have to âownâ
- Perhaps he is fed up with UH and our fansâŠI mean we donât have a huge fan base and we demand a lot for the fickle support we provide admittedly.
- Perhaps he wants to get out while his stock is still somewhat high and he doesnât fester as AD with a lame duck head coach for multiple years losing in football season after season. Seeing a writing on the wall in the near term kinda thing. Anytime you move to a new school it resets the clock on expectationsâŠ
- Perhaps he just wants a new challenge
- Perhaps he just wants to move out of Houston - I mean he did come from beautiful NORCAL prior to this and Houston other than pockets here and there is pretty objectively ugly
- Perhaps he thinks he deserves a raise from all the bball success, football ops building, and going into the Big 12 and admin isnât giving it to him
- Perhaps hypothetical discussions of moving on from CDH have taken place between Fertitta and Pez and it is clear Fertitta is going to pick whoever he wants as the next HC and Pez is powerless in that aspect.
Point being, who really knows, but it could be a number of reasons why heâd want to move on. As long as Fertitta is the Godfather of UH sports then whoever the AD is will largely just be a figurehead for some of the major decisions like football coach hiring and extensions.
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