Shannon Dawson is the New OC/QB Coach

[mossmadness]

They wanted him fired but not Doug belk who was hot as fish grease last offseason who had a defense ranked in the 100s this season.. tells your how smart most fans are of any fan base

Houston lost like 6 starters on defense to injury this year.

 

[theribdoctor]

Seems to me like they threw the ball a lot less and in 3 less games

the only regression I see is TD's/INT's he threw a lot less TD's and almost as many INT's as the year before.

 

[ScharfCane]

Houston lost like 6 starters on defense to injury this year.

Lame excuse. Injury is part of the game. It’s okay to regressed some due to injury. But to be ranked in the 100s is inexcusable.

 

[Negro-Wan Kanobi]

Players love it. For whatever thats worth.

That's what matters.

Let's roll.

 

[Geddy Lee]

Is D'Eriq King still at Houston?

 

[AK_Cane]

I was a grad assistant there!! Dana ain’t worth a ****

So you believe in Dawson?

 

[Canesfan1899]

This is a solid hire. I've bumped into this guy a few times. He's a scheming fanatic and will absolutely utilize our athletes in space. Young about to go off.

Did you say scheming? That would be a welcome sight on offense.

 

[supacane]

Oh so you know the vibes!! Man we used to walk across the street to TSU and sit in that cafe like we went to school there.

I be like coach, can i just stay and yall head back to the G. Trinidadian coach. He be like yu mada wud kill mi. U getting on dat bus. Lol man said every problem he had came from chasing tail.

 

[hurricaneman]

He was solid. He developed Mullens. I think it’s a solid hire with a high ceiling. The scheme is a perfect fit and Mario must have gotten that through his think skull

I do want to know if this is two years in a row we've struck out on multiple people before the inevitable hire. That's probably a really important discussion.

I obviously have much less confidence in the hire the further down the list we go.

 

[JustAFanHTX]

Houston lost like 6 starters on defense to injury this year.

Dude I’m a UH grad you can’t tell me anything about them I don’t know lol we still had enough talent to not be THAT bad. We lost a RB on offense that we thought would be a top rusher in the nation as well as our Wr’s including tank being banged up. No way no matter who we lost on defense should we have been ranked where we were

 

[423Hurricane]

Oh so you know the vibes!! Man we used to walk across the street to TSU and sit in that cafe like we went to school there.

What’s his personality like? Players like him?

 

[CFLCane]

This seems like a plan B choice and took way too ******* long. That being said I'm happy that we chose an exciting offense though and i'm ready to ride or die.

 

[scrantoncane]

I hope he brings WR Matthew golden with him. Kid is a stud in the making.

 

[jman94]

Dawson took over in 2016. I mean it's not a bad season but seems like Mullens regressed going from Monken in 2015 to Dawson in 2016.

Year	School	Conf	Class	Pos	G	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	AY/A	TD	Int	Rate
2013	Southern Mississippi	CUSA	FR	QB	9	136	276	49.3	1776	6.4	5.1	13	14	108.7
2014	Southern Mississippi	CUSA	SO	QB	10	218	365	59.7	2470	6.8	6.3	12	9	122.5
*2015	Southern Mississippi	CUSA	JR	QB	14	331	521	63.5	4476	8.6	9.0	38	12	155.2
*2016	Southern Mississippi	CUSA	SR	QB	11	243	384	63.3	3272	8.5	8.5	24	11	149.8

I don’t have much context but simply based off your chart: In 2015 Mullens played 3 more games & had significantly more attempts. Completion %, rating and yards per attempt were fairly similar in both 2015 and 2016. Rating had the largest variance.

If you prorate the 2015 stats to 11 games as opposed to 14 I would imagine the yards & touchdowns would be much closer.

Not sure if that could be a “regression” when the sample size under Monken seems to be larger. The “regression” conclusion is somewhat skewed, however your point is well taken.

 

[AtlAtty]

Putrid hire. Lower your expectations for the season.

Why?

 

[filmcane]

i think it's interesting Mario's complete 180...

last year we hired 2 big time coordinators from 2 big time P5 teams (although Steele left Maryland, he had been a DC at some big programs)... neither one known for being innovative necessarily...

this year he went the complete opposite direction.. 2 G5 guys... with virtually none or very little P5 experience...

On paper, I loved last year's hires and it mostly didn't work out. This year, on paper, I like this move to hungrier people who will actually have some dawg in them.

As always, we shall see...

 

[Suhrthing]

No one liked getting dumped. No one. So you deflect and act like you never liked the person that much.

Cormani is too skinny and Antoine is too immature.

 

[TrumpyCane]

Not many kind words for Dawson on the UH 247 site. Said the offense only got better halfway through the year when Holgerson took over play calling. They are really, seriously not upset and said yall told us about D'nofrio, now we are repaying the favor.

TrumpyCane will play devils advocate

Houston’s first 5 games the combined record of the teams were 42-25

Their last 8 games when Holgerson apparently took over was 41-59

TrumpyCane wonders what the difference was

 

[Zbrod95]

He bringing holgerson with him? Wouldn't it make sense to judge when he ran his own show

Except he didn’t

 

[JgDaCane]

Love it. Something different.