Lemme get this straight
Houston wants to fire their HC after a
2nd straight 8-5 season, whereas
some colleges will let a guy hang around for 11 years for averaging slightly worse than that
Kudos to Houston for having
high standards
Upon Applewhite’s hiring, both UH Board of Regents chairman Tilman Fertita and president Renu Khator famously stated, “We’ll fire coaches at 8-4.”
Let this be a cautionary tale, Applewhite was a shoo-in for P5 level jobs just below the Texas-TAMU level but he got greedy wanting to wait for one of the "destination P5 jobs", he read his press clippings and thought he was too good for a mid-level P5 job and now he might be jettisoned to the scrap heap having to drop back to OC for 5 years before he gets another shot
Examples like this is why HCs jump for the next best opportunity as soon as it arises, you never know when your team is gonna go into a funk that severely limits your career path
In other news, look out for F$U, Taggart did the smart thing and hired Kendal Briles as OC, and that is a home run hire IMO, that Big-12 spread em out offense in the ACC being run with premium Fla Recruits might make some noise in the near future
Taggart probably saved his job with this hire