I don't see Houston winning more than a couple of games this year. They will beat Rice at least, but there aren't many other sure things on the schedule. It's going to be a really long year, but the program will survive. They have been horrible before.
2016 Tulane 4–8 2017 Tulane 5–7 2018 Tulane 7–6 2019 Tulane 7–6 2020 Tulane 6–6 2021 Tulane 2–10 2022 Tulane 12–2 2023 Tulane 11–2 Imagine a UH football coach surviving those first 6 seasons Willie had in New Orleans. I don't know how long of a leash Willie has. Perhaps Renu and Tilman have tempered their expectations since we're not in the AAC anymore. Renu caught a lot of **** for that "we fire 8 win coaches" comment, but I supported that attitude when we were in the American. There was no good reason UH's football program shouldn't be putting up double digit wins in that conference. The Big 12 (16) is a totally different animal and it will take some time for us to get up to par. I expected this would be a lost year, but it could be even worse than I imagined. We might be looking at a legitimate 1 or 2 win season. It's that bad.
Attendance: 25750 Oh my god. New coach, home opener? That's pathetic. Maybe it's a good thing nobody showed up given what transpired. Jeez.
Honestly that's pretty good, the capacity is only 40k and it was disgusting outside. UH could have hired Saban and I wouldn't have gone.
I can understand a lack of talent but UH had just as much talent, if not more than UNLV. Yesterday was about coaching. I blind man could see Donovan wasn't ready on yesterday. And that the offensive linemen didn't know who to block. I never had concerns about UH's offense, they always had talent on that end. If it takes 6yrs to turn this program around, there won't be 25,000 in the seats, it'll be 2,500!
Home openers vs. non Rice/P5 teams... 2010 vs TXST 32,119 2013 vs TXST 32,207 2014 vs Southern 26,205 2015 vs Tenn Tech 30,479 2019 vs PVA&M 29,360 2023 vs UTSA 37,862 To find a worse home opener attendance-wise you have to go all the way back to 2009 vs. Northwestern State (22,043)
And yet the basketball team has some of the highest ticket prices in the country with consistent sellouts. Wonder what the difference could be.
Watched post game press conference. It appears that CWF is planning to roll again next week with Donavan Smith at QB. Wish I could think of something good to say about Smith but I can't. Watching this game lowered my expectations for the year for the Coogs to near zero. I still hope they win every game but being realistic unless they figure out a way to play better than they did against UNLV it is going to be a long year. The last drive where they finally scored with Ale in as QB was a breath of fresh air. It was against backups but still he looked great. And the punt and kick returners looked good. They had a couple of big returns called back due to penalties. At times I thought the defense played okay. Other than that I can't remember much good from yesterday's game.
An abysmal hope-crusher of a game. I was looking forward to the new-look Coogs, but I saw absolutely nothing new. I wasn’t even expecting good, just competitive. It seems that’s going to be out of reach this year AGAIN. Don’t even ****ing talk to me about attendance until we get some semblance of a football team on campus.
This program has yet to recover from the Tom Herman departure. Not even talking football but just the buzz that Herman and his staff generated is something none of the guys after him have being able to replicate. The whole #htowntakeover thing and the constant selling of the program/school was just on another level. ****ing hell, Tom
I think people were being naive to how bad the talent on this team. The few players we had hit the portal unless they had already transfered once and didn't want to sit out another year. The oline was bad last year and we had a guy get drafted in the 2nd round on it last year. These guys this year are all portal guys except for Pancake Hunter.
TX St, PV, SU and UTSA all have a decent amount of alumni that live in the area or it's not that far of a drive.
This is the uncomfortable truth. Blaming this on coaching is just cope. The 2022 team (which arguably underachieved) had talent (substantial talent on offense, and a few bright spots on defense) but Dana basically hadn't recruited anyone worth a **** since covid (except some WRs whom all have left the programs since lmao) and it finally caught up to us. The 2023 transfer class, with very few exceptions (AJ Haulcy, Stephon Johnson), sunk us. That was Dana's hail mary to save his job after completely ******** the bed on the recruiting trail for years. It didn't work, and now we're seeing the results.
Yeah, when Dana just flat out decided to not give a crap about recruiting, you could see this type of season coming from a mile away.
Not giving a crap about recruiting and then publicly saying it to the media got his ass fired. The buyout would have saved him for one more year had he actually cared and tried to recruit some players but telling the media the ship had sailed on the class of 24 in November when he had 6 commits was what pissed off Dr Khator to pull the plug even after Tillman told her he had no money to pay Dana's buyout. This is a 3 yr rebuild the Oline is the hardest position group to fix so they will be mixing and matching guys from the portal until Fritz's oline recruits are ready to play which might be in 2 or 3yrs.
