http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...raculous-2011-cougars-experience-true-miracle It is crazy to think 1) an injury like that could occur in football and 2) someone could survive it. There's a ton of college football teams, and only a handful of them have access to that level of trauma care at a moment's notice. Which puts the odds even further into the astronomical territory. Hope he makes a full recovery and gets a try-out with an NFL team one day. Edit: Crawford Jones named starting QB for final game. Rumor has it Piland wants out. Supposedly Levine's job situation will be "evaluated" after the game. Yikes.
Big East unveils 2013 schedule Houston Home: Memphis, San Diego State, SMU & USF Away: Boise State, UCF, Rutgers & Temple
I know I'm like late but I have to throw my two cents in here. After last season, you had dibs on all your assistants and instead you let them go one by one to other schools and you picked the special teams coach when you had a prodigy sitting on your lap, who went on to the aggies and now in the final two to be the head coach for TexasTech. http://espn.go.com/college-football...s-texas-tech-red-raiders-coaching-job-sources
I can understand letting Kliff walk. At the time, he was 32 years old and only had 2 seasons as a lieutenant offensive coordinator/QB coach under his belt (one of which was the 2010 season, which sucked). But letting Jason Phillips go to SMU was downright stupid.
That was part of it, but not the main reason. The AD was sick of watching their HC leave after success (Briles & Sumlin) and wanted a coach that would stick around. They believed Kliff would be gone in a year or two if he did well at UH as a HC.
I'll take the coach more likely to succeed over the coach more likely to stay every single time. Better to have a winning coach use you as a stepping stone than to have a loyal coach who sucks. Of course, you'd love to have a loyal coach who's also successful. But if you're still considered a stepping stone school, it rarely works out that way. Boise St. is a notable exception. Your only real hope is to keep winning under multiple coaches, raising your profile until it puts you in a position (conference) where you're no longer a stepping stone.
I understand what you are saying, and there is truth to it... however the AD did not think their choice would suck, although his first year was a disaster.
I am sort of surprised that Levine didn't resign out of embarrassment. He looked absolutely lost as a head coach. Another year like this one and surely he is done. His team was the most undisciplined team in recent memory. They had "poorly coached" written everywhere. Actually thought they had some very talented players.
I hope they are overconfident. I'll be at the game. I know the competition has been weak so far but it’s been a thrill to watch UTSA build the program from scratch. Next season we’ll be able to gage how far along UTSA is in building a program. Home games against OK State and Houston.
That stadium looks cool, but that scoreboard is puny by today's standards. The scoreboard need to be at least four times larger than what is pictured.
There's a live streaming camera at Robertson. Pretty cool to see things coming apart so quickly. http://www.earthcam.com/clients/manhattanconstruction/universityofhoustonstadium/?cam=2
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Sources: UH hires Oklahoma St. inside receivers coach Doug Meacham as the Cougars new offensive coordinator. School not commenting.</p>— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/287664631831482368" data-datetime="2013-01-05T20:59:27+00:00">January 5, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>sources: UH interim offensive coordinator Travis Bush will be co-offensive coordinator and assistant head coach.</p>— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/287664810978598914" data-datetime="2013-01-05T21:00:10+00:00">January 5, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
