We’re six places above San Jose St. How do you not see this as a fifth year success story?!
And we’re ranked 37th in teams without an Ops Building. So lets keep it in perspective.
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SJSU has won five conference games in a row including a home win over Fresno. Big game at UNLV coming up.
Brent Brennan, a San Jose native and second-generation Spartan, enters his seventh season as the San José State University football head coach in 2023 and led the Spartans to a 7-5 record in 2022 including a trip to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Brennan is the first head coach to lead the Spartans to two bowl games since Claude Gilbert in 1986 and 1987.
SJSU needs to invest in computer science and engineering rather than football. It can be a strong alternative to Cal Poly for CS majors in the Valley.
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I agree this is a bad year. I’m just glad we didn’t see more Applewhite seasons. How much was CMA’s buyout? He was the first of coaches with onerous contracts.
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2.5 to buy him out and another million to buy Dana out. Could’ve waited a year, avoided redshirt gate, paid no buyout and signed Dana for a contract under 3 million. Might still be in the same situation but it would’ve come at a reduced cost. Major shouldn’t have been hired to begin with but imo it was a mistake to fire him in year 2.
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One of those was a COVID year.
Throw that out and CDH’s second real season was 12-2.
Every coach has a Covid year, throw out the entire year for everyone?
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Why throw the Covid year out? If anything it didn’t even accurately reflect how terrible we were because several games that would’ve likely been losses got canceled.
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There were games cancelled that we likely would have won.
That season was a freebie for everybody.
That’s why it doesn’t count against eligibility.
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We’d have beaten Rice and UNT (probably). We’d have also lost to Wazzu, Tulsa, and SMU. Dana doesn’t deserve a mulligan for that year. 3 awful years, 1 mediocre year, and 1 good year. That’s how his scorecard reads.
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Not sure about those three.
Probably win a few.
And they cancelled a likely winnable Baylor game.
That was a boondoggle season that didn’t count.
In his second season that counted, he was far more successful than in Applewhite’s second season that counted. In CDH’s second real season, he produced a Top 20 team with a bowl win over a P5.
In Applewhite’s second season that counted, he got us embarrassed by a dang service academy.
No contest.
The Baylor game was a product of the Covid season itself though. I’ll give you that game was a toss up. But if Covid wasn’t a thing at all it wouldn’t have been on the schedule at all. Instead we would’ve had a trip to WSU. I don’t think we’d have been ready for that. SMU in Dallas we’d have been about -6 or -7 point dog. And Tulsa was actually the 2nd best team in the league that year so I don’t think we’d have won it either. I wouldn’t rule it out that maybe we could have won 1 of those three but as we learned this year even games against Rice and UNT aren’t guarantee wins with Dana. 2-3 would’ve been the most likely outcome. But maybe that would’ve been a blessing in disguise because at 5-7 we wouldn’t have been bowl eligible and so we wouldn’t have had the loss to Hawaii lol
So to recap, in Dana’s first two seasons that counted he was substantially worse than Applewhite.
Major: 15-10 (60%)
Dana: 7-13 (35%)
Case closed
CDH hands down has to be the worst coach UH has had in the last 10 years.
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12-2 with a schedule designed to be 12-2.
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this is a giant joke…you are trying to blame his first season on Major and ignoring that it was not Major that pulled the “give up” that year to “build for next year”…then you are ignoring after that "build for next year (even with covid that every program faced) he could not beat a 6-4 UCF team (at home no less) nor could he beat a 5-4 Hawaii team
you are ignoring that he took over a team that had won 7 or 8 games each in the prior two seasons (but of course you are blaming Major for destroying the program), but again dana could not recruit to have a better covid year (so he gets a pass), nor could he beat anyone other that totally horrible teams even after giving up the prior season and resting players for that next year (something that no other program did while they all faced covid issues)
then you are saying how great his (according to you) “real second season” was…but then you ignore that he followed that up with 8 wins (same as what gets coaches fired at UH) and then he has followed that up with 4 or perhaps 5 wins this year…but somehow it is Major that destroys programs not the guy that went from an “amazing second season” (actually his 3rd) back down to below the “standards” of UH and then went down further to 4 or at best 5 wins
you are also ignoring that even with that covid season there was nothing “covid related” about recruiting so in the second season (that you want to ignore) he should have had two classes of his players to compete with plus he had rested a bunch the first year to keep them fresh for that second season…and still only managed to win 3 games and lose 5
you are also ignoring that no matter what he had 4 recruiting classes before his fall back to 8-5 and he had 5 recruiting classes before his further fall to 4 or 5 wins at most this season
you are ignoring that Major and Levine did not have the advantage of “super seniors” because of covid and you are further ignoring that Major and Levine did not have “super seniors” that had been benched to rest up their first year for that “big second year break out 3-5 season”
but somehow it is still the fault of Major that a guy that clearly cannot coach managed to only get 3 wins in his second season, 4 wins in his first season, 8 wins in his 4th season and at most 5 wins (probably 4) in his 5th season…all while having the transfer portal, NIL, super seniors, and the red shirt joke of a first year that Major and Levine did not have
pretty ridiculous the nonsense and total twisted logic people will come up with to try and make a one hit wonder surrounded with loser seasons and with a massive amount of advantages into some type of a decent coach or a coach that is better than one that just went out and won more games that he lost both seasons he coached and was let go because it “was not enough”…but the guy that beat a horrible schedule one season after two horrible seasons and with massive advantages and then turned that right back into a decline is somehow better
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We beat 3 teams with a winning record.
That season was Fugazi.
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Records against FBS teams with a winning record
Major: 7-5 (2 seasons)
Dana: 8-22 (5 seasons)
Try to let that actually sink in smh
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But 2021 was rated #30 overall and equal to the #29 for 2015.
It’s okay, Law has said that he might be willing to change his position if CDH has another poor season next year. Looking at the schedule and our recruiting, another sub .500 season seems inevitable. We might win him over yet, he could just be a late believer. 
Or CDH could get fired soon and we can close our eyes and reopen them hoping the last 5 years (sans 2021) was just a horrible nightmare. Hopefully he is in our rear view mirror SOON!
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is that counting the potential “but covid” wins?..what if some of those teams with losing records had been able to get more wins, “but covid” took all their weaker easy win games away
it should probably be more like
Major 7-5 two seasons
dana 15-18
plus we really need to not count the first season because Major ruined it for dana
so dana 15-19 in 4 seasons and 15 wins / 4 seasons = 3.75 vs. 7 wins / 2 seasons = 3.5 Major and dana had the 12 win season and a bowl win
so massive advantage dana BoOm!1!1!1!1
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A schedule not too unlike Applewhite’s.
Same conference.
Sir, we’re one of the worst teams in the country in offense, defense, and recruiting. Is it possible to rurn a burning apartment around?