- 1993
- 1994
- 2001
- 1986
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After your linebacker post without Hodge on it I have no idea.
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I’m not a fan of this question or poll. Let’s relive the worst of UH football. I realize it is for “entertainment purposes only”, but having witnessed those years, all of them are the worst.
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I don’t know how yall older fans went through it but my bad years since I’ve been a fan from 2008:
2010 Keenum’s injury
2012 Levine’s first season
2019 Holgorsen’s first season
2023 First Big 12 season
That 0-11 team in 2001 under Dimel was NEXT LEVEL sucky.
Got embarrassed week after week.
Second worst was 1994 under Helton.
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Better record than 3 CDH seasons.
1993 was really bad. I went to a game in the Dome vs Cincinnati where I was the only one left in a lower level section late in the third quarter.
Dimel’s winless 2001 was the worst. It was almost deliberate, because Dimel redshirted a lot of the talented players he did have, and just decided to take the beatings…figuring we’d be better in future. We were, but not enough to save his job after an 0-11 season. That winless season would linger…i think he got told he would need to win 8 the next year to keep his job.
I was on the 2001 Wikipedia page for that team. That last half of the season… holy… blowout after blowout
2001 was bad but there was some talented kids redshirting that led to the turnaround. The 93 and 94 teams were bad and the prospects going forward were just as bad. There was a game at the dome and Clay Helton played QB and people said his father should have been charged with child abuse for the beating he took in the game.
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I’d rather ponder the best UH team of all time.
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Maybe the best team was the year we lost only one game, 7-0 to Auburn.
D.C. Noble was a magician running the veer!
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Dimel did not have a team that could compete. I was at Hattiesburg to watch UH vs. So Miss -left in the middle of the 2nd quarter. No offense what so ever. Passing attack was badly incomplete or an interception if close to the players
I had season tickets that year and 2001 was definitely rock bottom for me. I’ll never forget looking at the sidelines one game and seeing players joking around and laughing. It really made me question my decision. Fortunately, things would get going when CAB came to town.
01 please that is easy. I could play for the 01 team…now…at my age.
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I liked the team that beat Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl. Also all of the teams that beat the cows. Following one of those victories in Austin, I had a juiced up CB in my van and played the Cougar fight song over and over while driving around town. I know I upset a bunch of bone heads . . . . .
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As my screen name suggests, I saw all of these woeful clubs’ games, and I concur that Dimel’s 3 years at UH (2000-2001, during which we won at total of 8 games), and Helton’s 7 years (1993-1999, in which we won a total of 24 games), were both awful. But they were different.
Dimel’s goal was to build a competitive football program in CUSA. His successor, Briles, finally accomplished that using a lot of Dimel’s recruits who had been redshirted. In other words, Dimel was coaching to change UH’s football future for the better.
Helton, on the other hand, was coaching to change UH football to be different than what it had been in the past under his immediate predecessor, Jugular John Jenkins. Shortly after he was announced as UH’s new head football coach Helton gave a speech to UH supporters at a luncheon downtown. He was very clear that he was going to change the style of play and that UH would never again be accused by its critics of running up the score on any of its opponents. When he said that everyone who heard it instantly thought about UH 95 - SMU 21 in 1989, which had become a cause celebre for winers. Well, Helton surely kept his word about not running up the score. He ditched the pass often offense that Jenkins ran and tried to play SEC style run-run-run football, which is what Helton had played and coached before. With regard to running up the score, UH became the runee instead of the runner. In other words, Helton’s plan was to destroy UH football and then rebuild it from the ashes by playing games as if we were the University of Florida. Helton coached here for 7 years, in only 2 of which did we win more than 3 games.
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Dimel’s last year was reminiscent of Yeoman’s 1975 season. He redshirted a lot of talent with the expectation of vastly improving the next season. It worked for Yeoman, but Dimel never got the chance.
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Horrible thread.
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