Houston QB D’Eriq King and WR Keith Corbin will sit out 2019 and return to UH in 2020
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They are 1-3 and apparently Holgerson does not believe they can turn the season around. So, sit your two best players, try to stock up on recruits, and hope you can get your system fully ingrained by next season.
I get the logic behind it, but I hate it nonetheless. I hate conceding defeat. That's essentially what they are doing for the season.
I get the logic behind it, but I hate it nonetheless. I hate conceding defeat. That's essentially what they are doing for the season.
Dana believes that UH will be a better team next year and he was actually supportive in those two guys sitting out the season.
It’s a dangerous game to play in College Football though.
I hadn't been paying attention to this because I assumed he was hurt or something (my sister goes there I should know this lol) but now that I've actually read it I'm shocked.
I don't even understand why someone would do this. I normally defend players but my god. And the coaches have to be behind it or supportive. Wild
I don't even understand why someone would do this. I normally defend players but my god. And the coaches have to be behind it or supportive. Wild
Just as I advocate in pro sports when pro teams "tank". The fans shouldn't show up or watch another game the rest of the season.
There are times when I have wanted my pro teams to tank. In the NFL, having the #1 pick in the right season can really turn around a franchise. Football truly is a "championship or bust" sport.
As long you don't mind continuing to pay premium prices or take out 3 1/2 hours of your day to watch a team purposely lose then I guess it doesn't matter. I'm just not willing to do that.
i guess my feeling is i rather suffer through one or 2 really bad years than 20+ years of, at best, mediocrity.
Look at the Giants as a great example of a franchise that tried to hold together a team with duct tape and chewing gum for the last 7 years. Ownership wasn't willing to blow it up and start over because they didn't want to make the fans upset, nor did they want to concede defeat. In the end, it ended up in the dumpster anyway, but only after everyone suffered through years of mediocrity.
Thankfully, for their fans, things finally got bad enough that the Giants couldn't win, and that forced them to rebuild. In another few years, they will have a formidable team. But the fans are going to have to suffer through another year or two of losses to get there.
If he truly is tanking, it's a myopic and idiotic move. You can bet every team he is battling in recruiting will use this against him.
I'm not saying it's not in the team's best interest to do that. But as a fan, I'm not footing the bill for it or eating up 3 1/2 hr's of my weekend for an entire season. I'll go do something else with my time and money.
This is a very un-Sabanesque thing to do. Coach Saban wants to win every game and arranges everything he has under his control to put Bama players into a chance to win.
I do not agree with Finebaum on much, but I think he is correct when he says that the odds of these two being at UH next year are exceedingly small.
I just see more downside than upside to doing this on the college level. I really don't like it on the professional level. But oh well, that's the current trend. As someone mentioned, UH will get torn up on the recruiting trail with this. You can guarantee an opposing recruiter will ask a recruit "What happens if you get there and the coach decides to tank the season and you're stuck there having to play through something like that?" This can be negatively framed in so many ways to hurt UH in recruiting.
If I am a UH season ticket holder I would be asking for a refund. If they refuse each ticket holder should sue them in small claims court. What a headache that would be for the university.
i’m shocked.
m.chron.com
UH quarterback D’Eriq King enters NCAA transfer portal
University of Houston quarterback D'Eriq King said Monday night he has entered the transfer portal.
m.chron.com
Lincoln Riley and Oeaux will be all over this. Riley never met a transfer portal QB he didn't love. And wouldn't know a defense from a picket fence.
Would be hilarious of King ends up somewhere BESIDES those two places. I even saw someone mention Arkansas, because of the tie between King and Kendal Briles.
Would be hilarious of King ends up somewhere BESIDES those two places. I even saw someone mention Arkansas, because of the tie between King and Kendal Briles.
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