Outside of Rice, Tulane is the toughest job in D1. If UH is not seen as a better stop by a coach than Tulane then we’ve already lost.
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That’s silly. If Oliver, King, and Carter hadn’t been injured, much less Davis, Owens, Turner, Williams, Chambers, etc., we would have been in the championship game.
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I agree that the reality of the situation is that he will be HC again next year. As pissed off as I am tonight, I really want him to succeed for the good of the program but my support is waning after today. I really need 9 wins next year. 
I’m not saying I agree with keeping him but I don’t see him getting jettisoned after 2 years. Not only would we be late to the coaching carousel but we would piss away a crap load of money. I think we gave chuck-fil-a man 3 years.
We wouldn’t get a decent staff and it’s a bad look to even good coaches to fire CMA after 2 years. Let’s face it- we don’t exactly have a lot of great young coaches lining up to coach here (at least not this year).
Next year we put out the feelers early in the season with the 0-3 start and then we find our next coach.
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I think UH is a better job, but I’m not sure it’s so much better that a guy like Fritz jumps at it. Tulane is is in an area with a ton of talent (Louisiana sends more players per capita to the FBS than any state), it’s AAU, they just built a new stadium, etc. But I don’t know. He very well may leave for UH.
Sam, his body of work gives us no reason to say it’s going to be better even full on. He’s lost 3 bowls in infamy. But even if he could right the ship, he’s lost the fanbase. We have no D-Coordinator, seniors who think skipping bowls is better a better option, and an opportunist at O-Coordinator. And add to it our non-conference slate next year…
NO compelling reasons to keep status quo. NONE.
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New Orleans don’t compare to Houston talent wise, not close!
Yep. I know the feeling. We do need to win the West Division next year. We’ll have the best QB, a solid OL, and most all our skill players return. I was very concerned about the defense, but now that we’ve gotten some impressive JC DL and will have a new coordinator, I think we should be okay there. We get Memphis, SMU, and Navy at TDECU next year. Lose one in conference, maybe UCF, and at OU. Yeah, 9 wins and a divisional title should be the benchmark.
He is 0-2 for the west division and 0-3 in bowls games. What makes you think he is going to win next year?
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No, but Louisiana does, and that’s a small state that Tulane can recruit from the Sabine to the Mississippi.
The players. You know they do matter. Had we not lost an inordinate amount of them to injury, including our best offensive and defensive players, guys in the top 10 in Heisman voting at one point, we would have won the division this year.
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So what will be the excuse next year? He has won nothing at UH.
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Fan base will be fine if we win the division next year. Yeoman had lost the fan base in his third year; in fact, they were hanging him in effigy. Thought he was a terrible coach.
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Applewhite is 0- for nothing but we winning the division next year.
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You don’t think losing your two best players matters? Or another eight or so difference-makers? It’s just yo to the coach to get true freshmen to play like All-Americans? We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
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We were playing Army most them guys are going to go fight next year. It’s not like we playing Clemson or Alabama.
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I’ve heard this story for decades. I think times are different now. In the meantime, empty stadium on the quest to an unlikely division title. We lost an entire of generation of UH fans in the 1990s. With possible realignment (yeah right i know) on the horizon, we don’t have the luxury of middling around,
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Thank you, Helton…“the love coach”…Gave great relationship advice.
Tilman Fertitta’s email would be much more useful. Those two would have to call him anyway to ask him to pay Major’s buyout.
I have been a Fritz fan for a while and he was my choice to succeed LTH when I thought he was leaving after the 2015 season, but LTH stayed another year allowing Tulane to grab him. So, he was in his 1st year at Tulane when we hired CMA.
I’m not proposing we fire Applewhite, just stating how I was thinking before. Should our administration decide they want to change, and I don’t think they will this season, I think Fritz would be a good choice. If not him, at least another head coach with a proven record.