Coaching Search - SMU V. Houston

[Digetydog]

When Sumlin left for TAMU, I suspected that he took all the top talent with him and left Cougar High with the C students lead by Levine. While he surpassed June by beating the patsy and keeping it close against BYU, he got crushed by UTSA and it's hard to imagine them getting bowl eligible. Thus, they have to be considering a change.

With that in mind, would you rather be:

A) Houston - waiting for the shoe to drop with a coaching search to follow; or

B) SMU - with the position open and plenty of time to find the right candidate? (and to convince some rich guys to fund someone good)

[SMU 86]

Rich guys have already been convinced.

[NTXCoog]

When Sumlin left for TAMU, I suspected that he took all the top talent with him and left Cougar High with the C students lead by Levine. While he surpassed June by beating the patsy and keeping it close against BYU, he got crushed by UTSA and it's hard to imagine them getting bowl eligible. Thus, they have to be considering a change.

With that in mind, would you rather be:

A) Houston - waiting for the shoe to drop with a coaching search to follow; or

B) SMU - with the position open and plenty of time to find the right candidate? (and to convince some rich guys to fund someone good)

While UH may be considering a coaching change, I don't think it's that hard to imagine UH as bowl eligible.
1 win already on the books.
Should wins the rest of the season:
UNLV - only win squeaking by Northern Colorado 13-12
USF - only win squeaking by Western Colorado 36-31
Tulane - Only win is vs FCS SE La (35-20). Lost to a bad Tulsa team
Tulsa - Squeaked by Tulane and got destroyed by FAU (50-21)
SMU - write your own comment (interim coach might have some impact on this story)

That makes 6 and a bowl appearance. And that's not counting games against Memphis and Temple which will probably be listed as toss ups or close games.

Whether Levine stays is up in the air. Change in OC is almost guaranteed, the 5th OC change in 3-4 years.

[Digetydog]

When Sumlin left for TAMU, I suspected that he took all the top talent with him and left Cougar High with the C students lead by Levine. While he surpassed June by beating the patsy and keeping it close against BYU, he got crushed by UTSA and it's hard to imagine them getting bowl eligible. Thus, they have to be considering a change.

With that in mind, would you rather be:

A) Houston - waiting for the shoe to drop with a coaching search to follow; or

B) SMU - with the position open and plenty of time to find the right candidate? (and to convince some rich guys to fund someone good)

While UH may be considering a coaching change, I don't think it's that hard to imagine UH as bowl eligible.
1 win already on the books.
Should wins the rest of the season:
UNLV - only win squeaking by Northern Colorado 13-12
USF - only win squeaking by Western Colorado 36-31
Tulane - Only win is vs FCS SE La (35-20). Lost to a bad Tulsa team
Tulsa - Squeaked by Tulane and got destroyed by FAU (50-21)
SMU - write your own comment (interim coach might have some impact on this story)

That makes 6 and a bowl appearance. And that's not counting games against Memphis and Temple which will probably be listed as toss ups or close games.

Whether Levine stays is up in the air. Change in OC is almost guaranteed, the 5th OC change in 3-4 years.

If you keep him with a marginal record, it would be a mistake. He is mediocre at best.

[Rayburn]

Cougar High can't find it's backside with both hands. The proof is they hired Tony Levine. As bad as June turned out to be, the logic of the time was far better than the logic of picking the special teams coach to be the head coach!

I'd always rather be SMU that UH.

[Rebel10]

Cougar High can't find it's backside with both hands. The proof is they hired Tony Levine. As bad as June turned out to be, the logic of the time was far better than the logic of picking the special teams coach to be the head coach!

I'd always rather be SMU that UH.

We could do the exact same thing if Mason makes a decent showing like Levine did in their bowl game against Penn St. And we could be stuck in possible mediocrity. So let's not make fun of UH yet.

[sbsmith]

We could do the exact same thing if Mason makes a decent showing like Levine did in their bowl game against Penn St. And we could be stuck in possible mediocrity. So let's not make fun of UH yet.

If that happens we'll end up being a lot worse than mediocre.

[tristatecoog]

Cougar High can't find it's backside with both hands. The proof is they hired Tony Levine. As bad as June turned out to be, the logic of the time was far better than the logic of picking the special teams coach to be the head coach!

I'd always rather be SMU that UH.

I believe the Coogs hired Sumlin for under $700k the same year SMU hired JJ.

[Rebel10]

Cougar High can't find it's backside with both hands. The proof is they hired Tony Levine. As bad as June turned out to be, the logic of the time was far better than the logic of picking the special teams coach to be the head coach!

I'd always rather be SMU that UH.

I believe the Coogs hired Sumlin for under $700k the same year SMU hired JJ.

Well you do have a point with that.