He never established an identity for the program. What do we hang out hat on?
Also I think being at WVU he didn’t have to worry about marketing the program since it’s the only game in town. The FB program was basically asleep for 9 months a year with very little content or news. In Hou you have to consistently promote and engage with the fans.
He really inherited an amazing team from the coach that he replaced. Wasn’t the guy winning consistently, if memory serves me correctly. They were set up to be the next Clemson.
CDH simply couldn’t win consistently. Take away the 12-2 season, his record would have been 19-26.
You could basically only count on him to beat sub .500 G5 teams. Everything else was a toss-up or a loss. Honestly, it was pretty miserable to live through other than 2021.
History told us that CDH was not the coach we wanted him to be but our hope and dreams prevailed. That is why I stress that the next coach have proven head coaching experience.
CDH was never going to be the coach we wanted him to be.
Joke was on us for signing him…TF wanted him here, so ended being here, this time I’m not hearing TF name as much on the next hire which is good thing. But what do I know.
He served the #1 purpose - to show the Big 12 that we were serious in hiring a Power coach.
The drinking buddy nonsense needs to stop. TF has plenty of people to drink with.
He wanted one final pay day!!!
100% this. That was the only positive thing about the hire. It showed we meant business. Objective achieved.
At the time, bringing CDH here was a flex.
The contract extension was the flub.
I actually saw Dana once at my local sports bar in montrose not long after him being hired. Him and few coaches were just hanging out watch golf. Tillman was not there.
this is a fact and he knew UH was all too ready to serve it up as we’ve done in the past for others
I think this was it. He probably knew the inside story about us not making the Big 12 previously and heard that UH would never be let in. He saw that we were a top 5 G5 job and thought it would be easy to beat Tulane and Tulsa every year.
This should have been a red flag on Belk too. If you want to be the best, you wont do the minimum regardless of what the boss requires. Belk is happy with 15 generic pieces of flair.
If this quote is true then his firing was long, long, long overdue…
"He said, “I was not really pleased with all of our players. I am tired of doing it, man. I am tired of yelling at them. I am tired of motivating them. I am tired of all that crap.”
I hope CDH realized that his comment reinforced UH’s decision to fire him. The coach is ultimately held responsible for the players he brings in. If they were not listening to him, that explains the slow starts, penalties and poor tackling.
There is a simple solution. Get someone that the players respect and will listen to.
Has Holgerson spoken since he was fired?
John Granato left the gloves on and even gave Dana a back rub on air today because they’re buddies. He was iterating in a round about way that Houston ranks near the bottom in facilities and it’s hard to win under those conditions. When Granato went to see Dana last night, Dana said he thought he’d get another year. John asked him how the relationships were in the building and he said it was great, but the fanbase turned on him and didn’t know why.
John said if you don’t win football games then that is the reason.
He also chimed in that UCF and Cincy were better prepared for the jump than we were. Absolute f*cking trash excuses on the airwaves this morning.
A good coach can win with less. It’s been proven over and over again. CTH won with a lot less than Dana had.
Add self-aware as one of the qualities UH needs in a head coach.
My personal point about why he failed is this.
It is one thing to take the head coaching job in Houston, doesn’t matter what sport it is here and be glad to be in such a great city.
but, if you don’t put the tireless effort behind the scenes to be successful, create a winning atmosphere 24/7/365 around every aspect that you’re responsible for, you will fail miserably.
For every Rudy T or Van Chancellor that has put together championship cultures during their time in Houston, there are the negative examples of Bill O’Brien and Dana of what coaching failure looks like.
By the way, all the recent coaching changes in Houston sports in the past year or so, whether it’s the new Astros manager or the new Texans head coach, or the Houston Rockets new head coach or the Houston Dynamo head coach, it makes me glad to see such changes happen so often now than before growing up in Houston because the people in charge finally understand that the days of Houston settling for being mediocre no longer apply to this generation of fans who want a winning product RIGHT NOW.
Remember, Houstonians will not spend money on what they feel is an inferior sports product.
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