Our Long, Dana Holgorsen Nightmare is Over

Posted on by Jorden
It's Danaver.
It's Danaver.

I really haven’t spoken up about Dana’s tenure lately, because there has been nothing to say. Every point or quip I had would have been recycled from previous blogs. And there was nothing new to add; Dana was terrible and a horrible recruiter and an expert at blaming everything other than his coaching. But finally, the reprieve came.

I know everyone and their uncle who has an inside source inside the Athletics Department knew that Dana’s time was up, but I wasn’t ready to believe. There were sprinkled rumors that UH’s sugar daddy, Tilman, was going to make sure he stayed. Even with the new money rolling in (even though it is for academic purposes. I’m no expert but I think “accounting” can change), I thought Pezman would keep him around. I was as wrong as reaction tests are about CJ Stroud.

Follow Dana Down

I wanted Dana to succeed. Maybe it’s because the 12-year old in me who only played Air Raid-style football on NCAA Football 09. Maybe it’s because I was coming off the Applewhite hangover (I wasn’t the first college student to say that), but UH was getting a legitimate coach. We were on the come up again.

Even after the first year where UH went 4-8, I had hope. We all forgive coaches for the first year downs; people are still giving Deion an insane amount of credit for winning a whole 4 games. And the jump from the Big 12 to the AAC probably caused some confusion (I am making excuses now, as I was then).

2021 may have been the greatest year in UH sports (oldheads please do not fact check me, I am not looking back to the 80s). Dana was a part of that. He was an integral part of that 2021 run; and we all had this hope that the sprinkles of Mike Leach intertwined in Dana’s coaching DNA would begin to appear. But just like Dana at a casino, those sprinkles failed to ever leave their metaphysical coaching cases.

Obviously, we’re here now, where I wrote blogs railing against play calling. UH only has 8 high school recruits coming for the 2024 season, and who knows how long that is going to last. Online forums have a Coach Prime thread every week (I have no clue if Deion Sanders even knows that the University of Houston exists). We’re here where the (former) UH football coach is focused on us being competitive, and not being good. It’s not like Dana had years of warning that UH would be joining the Big 12. And with that time, he decided to focus on his Red Bull mixology.

They put this up like the day after UH announced it was joining the Big 12. The AAC didn’t even have time for a good Power 6 mourning.

After what feels like three consecutive seasons of just begging Dana to play a little less conservatively, he’s gone. And I’m not happy. Like I said, I wanted him to succeed. If Dana succeeds, so does UH. And if UH succeeds I am happy (my happiness on Saturdays is dependent on what 20 year-olds and Europeans/South Americans in a northern English town do).

Habemus Coacham

Realistically, I have no solid prediction on when the next UH coach will be announced. Everyone seems to think Gary Patterson is the main target, because he can build a program. I’ve seen Kliff Kingsbury’s name thrown out there, but he’s a guy who embodies failing upwards with excellent QBs (i.e., Kevin Sumlin). Hey, even FAU was in Houston yesterday maybe our old ex makes a comeback (please do not this UH, I might throw away all my UH Football gear).

Right now, I’m actually not extremely focused on who’s next. Mostly because the season is over, and the coaching carousel is just beginning.

The next coach, though, needs to be everything that Dana was not. I did a somewhat thorough (for this blog) break down of why I really disliked Dana in this blog. The play calling was atrocious, the recruiting was FCS-level, and the personality was abrasive. The bad man is finally gone, and the UH football part of my brain can rest easy for a second that UH Athletics finally caught Dana’s berlin carriage and is now beheaded.

The king is dead, long live the [insert your favorite candidate here].

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