Simply put. Was DH imposed on Pezman?
The question has to be asked. Furthermore this is usually the A.D. that hires/finds a H.C. At the very least he would put his “stamp” of approval.
The extension makes no sense whatsoever and was it even Pezman’s idea?
Let’s say DH was imposed on Pezman. Would you want to look elsewhere? I would.
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Still doesn excuse his terrible season ticket management and pricing strategy, and he also botched the Whitting extension and many other sports at UH have vastly declined under his leadership.
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It wasn’t the right thing to do. We bought at the peak of the market.
Some of us had no confidence in Dana and weren’t fooled by a fluffed up record against bad opponents.
All that being said, this is Tilman’s rodeo. Our entire athletic department is basically his plaything.
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If the buyout was reasonable, it wouldn’t have mattered much. It’s always the buyout. We screwed ourselves with that.
Fertitta got him. He has the money to get rid of him. This is as simple as that.
Example:
atm got rid of their HC because donors ponied up. The same donors paid for Jimbo to come in hence the contract.
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He’s a VP of his department. If he has no voice in expenditures then I trust Renu would not sign off on the title. It makes no sense paying someone for an executive position and give him no influence on his department’s expenses. You essentially make him un-fireable. And that doesn’t mesh with her leadership style.
I think the man has more influence than you and I know. And its mostly bad.
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From now on put the buy out or the money owed at the lowest like 1 million. I’d rather them leave us getting a million than keep someone and lose more to fire.
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Agree. The impact of getting stuck with a coach because of a high buyout is much worse than losing a good one.
And I don’t think a buyout at this level would keep a coach here anyway. It would deter some schools but not the schools that took our last two coaches.
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I’m sure Pez is better at some AD tasks than others. If he leaves, let’s get someone who excels at the tasks that Pez was not good at. Pez seems to a numbers guy and schmoozing with BMDs, but it doesn’t seem to be a priority meeting one-on-one with modest donors and making them feel as important. Athletic marketing leading up to the season was, in a word, pathetic, in my view. It was almost as if “Why bother? UT fans will bail us out with ticket sales.”
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Great post. Its all cost-benefit analysis.
If you hire a coach and they do very well, then well, 1. you won with them so that’s good for the health of your program 2. another school will pay their buyout so that $ can go towards a new HC 3. you will likely have better candidates interested because the program will already be in good shape having come off a successful season(s). 4. There is a small chance you have found your Patterson type that will stick around. Not many drawbacks there by going after the absolute best coaches and dealing with the rest later.
If you hire a coach and give a foolish buyout like we have with an underperforming coach like CDH, well as you say, 1. they are losing or underperforming so the program is in shambles with them 2. You are tied to them with a huge buyout which prevents ease of moving on 3. As you say, if a top blue chip school wants that coach, they will still get them and pay the buyout anyway. You are really only hurting your own flexibility to pivot off that coach if things go sour by having such a punitive buyout.
The CDH extension, as it was structured, was downright negligent towards looking out for the best interest of UH - I don’t care who greenlighted it - Pez, Tillman, Khator, or a combination of them. It was extremely foolish. Think about it, we sit here 1 year into a P5 conference and if we fire a coach that has had 2 disappointing seasons in a row and 3 of 5 losing seasons we will have to payout like a top 10 buyout ever in college sports at UH. Not UT or Alabama. Insane. Inept. Foolish. Negligent. Criminal. Amateur. Not enough adjectives to describe it.
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I’m not blaming you, nilson, but my corgi could have said that headline…without sources. Every team loses assistants after the last game
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The nil makes it legal to give where as before we’d get ncaa probation while UT cheated and still wouldn’t get hit. They are paying more to get what they already have or less bc transfers leave without playing time. So all the new rules help us more.
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NIL is just saying you can’t tell anyone they can’t sell their face in a commercial or advertisement. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Its not a government agency supplying forgivable loans to message board posters. Previously people could be excluded from amateur alliances for receiving money for taking money for ads.
Wonder how legitimate this is
Here is the ncaa trying to justify itself.
There are definitely going to be coaches fired after the season. There has to be, because as TF said, UH is “off” expectations. The outcome Saturday only determines how far “off” the Coogs are.
The problem is, the scapegoat route seems to be the route Pez prefers as a way to keep garbage coaches. I believe that was the story with baseball that landed TW his recent inexplicable extension.
I do believe the Coogs will lose Saturday, but any buzz about coaches jobs are at stake is unfortunately a leading indicator of CDH keeping his job. Of course, if the Coogs get slammed like they did vs K State, the entire house may yet get cleaned.
We’ll know soon enough.
As I said. I’m not renewing if he stays.
Get the Oregon OC as Coach.
I warned everyone from the beginning and no one wanted to listen but here we are. So now I don’t want anyone else’s opinion about who is better out of traitor, gritz, Harry or Dayna. We need new blood. Guys the players can relate to.
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We lose, he’s done
Rumors will negatively impact the team imo
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I would reach out to both coordinators at Oregon first and then the DC from Georgia. The OC from Oregon and DC from Georgia have connections in Texas. And the DC from Oregon is one of the best recruiters in the country and is from the Saban coaching tree.
All 3 would be hungry and do what it takes.
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