Comments on: Jack Pardee takes Viagra, projects staff

By: GatoRojo

GatoRojo — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:59:33 +0000

Well, well . . . maybe Christmas came a few weeks early. Sumlin appears to be back in the mix at UH and H’wood is out. Pardee is still being mentioned, but I’d think they’d have hired him straight away rather than consider Sumlin again if this wasn’t Sumlin’s to lose.

By: BRAGGonUT

BRAGGonUT — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:33:17 +0000

South ‘06, Sumlin is going to get one of these openings or stand pat at OU until he gets one next year IMO.

By: GatoRojo

GatoRojo — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:28:55 +0000

South - you and me both. The more I learned, the more I wanted him.

By: South '06

South '06 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:06:27 +0000

I can’t believe you guys passed on Sumlin. He is long overdue for a head coaching job.

I’m glad you did though. I want him as our OC. I think hiring Sumlin is the only thing ur fans have unanimously agreed on in my lifetime.

By: GatoRojo

GatoRojo — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:50 +0000

HJ - if he is a *fix* at all (short or long term), I will take it . . . meaning, if he can continue the progress made over the last 5 years, then I will be ecstatic. I fear that this would be a Drexler-esque situation, which as you may recall, was a fiasco.

By: HenryJames

HenryJames — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:10:14 +0000

Can’t see Pardee as anything other than a short term fix.

By: GatoRojo

GatoRojo — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:54:43 +0000

UH fan here - and I have to agree that neither of these guys would be my first or second choice. Or third. I think either has more downside than upside, especially in light of some of the other candidates that were discussed.

I’d disagree w/ Mockingbird, though, that we aren’t willing to spend the money. . . we were paying Briles almost a million a year, and would’ve given him a raise had he stuck around. And the rumors are (admittedly, rumors) that we are in the process of finalizing a plan/contributions to make upgrades to the stadium. However . . . we don’t have BCS money coming in or the other revenue sources that B12 schools do to match you guys dollar for dollar. That much is true.

But we do spend what we have, I think. We just don’t have as much. And, while we may never be on the national stage again (sadly), I suspect we’ll still be (generally) better than Rice.

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:40:55 +0000

Wow.

This is the slow death of the Houston football program. They clearly no longer have an interest in spending the money on facilities or competing. Seems like they’ve given up.

Rice may end up being the best team in that city.

Either coach will be great comedy.

By: McLovin

McLovin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:29:48 +0000

I keep trying to type up some witty (to me) retort, but nothing can top the reality here. Pardee versus Haywood? Torbush.