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State of the Program: Houston Cougars
Head Coach: Willie Fritz is in his 1st year as the head coach of the Cougars. Houston has loads of potential in this new Big 12 and Fritz is a coach who could unlock it. You can read more about Fritz and the hire grade here: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/04/23/college-football-coach-hire-grades-houston/ Program Outlook: I mentioned it above and I’ll…
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State of the Program: East Carolina Pirates
Head Coach: Mike Houston is entering his 6th year as the head coach of the Pirates with a 24-34 record. Houston has a history of success, most notably slaying the North Dakota State beast to win a FCS national title at James Madison. He took this program over when it was in need of a…
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State of the Program: Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
Head Coach: Timmy Chang is entering his 3rd year as the head coach of the Rainbow Warriors with an 8-18 record. This is a job with unique qualifications and not everyone is suited for it. It’s been a slow rebuild for Chang after he followed the mess that Todd Graham left. Chang is of course…
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State of the Program: Georgia Southern Eagles
Head Coach: Clay Helton is entering his 3rd year with Georgia Southern and has a 12-14 record with the Eagles. It was impressive how quickly he transformed the program from an option team to pass heavy team but both of his prior seasons have followed the same pattern where they started strong but fizzled at…
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State of the Program: Oregon State Beavers
Head Coach: Trent Bray is in his first year as the head coach of the Beavers program. He’s set to lead them into these uncertain times after Jonathan Smith left and dropped all his gear off at a local Goodwill. You can see his background and hire grade here: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/02/20/college-football-coach-hire-grades-oregon-state/ Program Outlook: On the field,…
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State of the Program: San Jose State Spartans
Head Coach: Ken Niumatalolo enters his first head as the head coach of the Spartans. He comes in after having a lot of success at Navy in his prior stop. You can read more about him here: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/05/23/college-football-coach-hire-grades-san-jose-state/ Program Outlook: San Jose State sits in a good place right now. The Spartans program has a…
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State of the Program: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Head Coach: Tyson Helton is entering his 6th season as the head coach of the Tops with a 40-26 record. He’s been the Hallmark of consistency for the program, the weird 2020 season is the only time they won less than 8 games and didn’t win a bowl under his watch. He’s pretty underrated as…
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State of the Program: Army Black Knights
Head Coach: Jeff Monken is entering his 11th season as the head coach of Army with a 70-55 record. He’s done an incredible job here, before he took the job in 2014 Army had just 2 winning seasons in the last 2 decades. Now winning is a regular thing and most importantly he’s shifted the…
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State of the Program: Kansas State Wildcats
Head Coach: Chris Klieman is entering his 6th season as the head coach of the Wildcats with a 39-24 record. Following the legendary Bill Snyder is no easy task but he’s done it so far, he led them to the Big 12 championship in 2022, before he was at Kansas State he dominated at North…
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State of the Program: North Carolina Tar Heels
Head Coach: Mack Brown is entering his 6th season in this stint with the program and 16th season overall with the Tar Heels. He has a 107-73-1 record with the program. His first stint was from 1988-1997. They were incredible at the end of his tenure finishing in the Top 10 of the AP poll…
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