Houston Cougars/Holgorsen Actively Tanking?

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Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him. 

All the money Holgorsen makes and he still looks like a hobo who just rolled into town on a CP freighter. And yeah--how the fuck does tanking help you in college football? How do players get better by NOT playing when they were starters? Lay off the bottle, Dana...

Must really want Tua or Chase Young in the draft

Well that just means they get a higher draft pick right?

This has been known for weeks.

Is he aware there isn't a draft in college football?

I saw one of his players on Twitter a week or so ago lamenting how he was not one of those asked to take the redshirt. This is a problem. If players were just inhuman pawns to jockey around, maybe this strategy works, but this is brutally unfair to the guys spilling their guts out to play football at the highest level they'll ever achieve in their lives. They will not get these games back. Their coach doesn't give a shit and wants to throw all that away to increase their chance of making the playoffs from 0.05% to 0.1%. It's shortsighted and cruel. High School kids will obviously notice this behavior and not look at it favorably.

It's a novel approach in CFB and not one I expect to go over well. I just wonder if schools will start adding tanking into the firing for cause clauses in new contracts?

LOL, wonder what the SRs think of this plan?

With a skullet like that he can do whatever he pleases. 

I like it, it seems like the antithesis of people sitting out bowl games. 

Smart move, going for the lottery picks.

And what happens when they suck again next year? This will destroy their recruiting (assuming they have any?) Would be shocked if Holgorsen is there in the next two years

This seems like it would hurt recruiting, no? They basically move their roster back one recruiting year so the incoming kids will have tons of overlap and probably a longer path to the field.

My buddies & I used to do this all the time back in NCAA '08 (last year we played).

Roster Management 101 involved redshirting anyone that didn't already have one during Year 1 of Dynasty Mode.  Took a minor hit Year 1, but your roster would get a major boost during Year 2.

Sometimes a Cougar just likes to go down for the hell of it.  Why not?

I mean many teams used to do this in the past. They would redshirt their entire freshman class and in 3-4 years yield a very competitive competent team

I honestly don't see much of a point in tanking in college. There is no draft, and doing bad one year puts you even further behind the 8-ball for recruiting next year. Even if your guys take a RS, they still get a year older, still prone to injury, still out of the game for that span of time, etc.

It's not like the NFL where tanking gets you closer to the #1 overall pick. College is a perfect example ever year of the rich get richer (i.e. winning usually begets more winning) and the poor get poorer (i.e. losing usually begets more losing).

Smart move. Possibly go after some transfers.  This will be the new normal. Especially for lower tier schools 

So much for the season ticket holders.

Hey, if they get the top pick and could add Chase Young to that defense, or maybe Jonathan Taylor, they could be nasty next year.

If anyone wants to know why the NCAA rulebook is nearly 300 pages and has odd rules that punish a coach for giving a kid a sandwich need only look at Dana Holgorsen and this spectacle. He decided to use the new 4 game redshirt rule which is very well intentioned to benefit players and bastardize it after an embarrassing loss to Tulane to get a do-over for the season.

The NCAA has its issues but a hell of a lot of it has to do with coaches who take rules for the benefit of the players and make it instead for the benefit of themselves.

Hoke did something that was a bit different at San Diego State but was motivated by the same idea: he sat his more experienced players his first year in favor of playing the young guys and recruits more, knowing full well that they would be the ones carrying the team from then on.

It did improve them to a winning season the next year. 

As far as Holgorson, he reminds me of his mentor Mike Leach: as off the wall as they come, and can be way off in many ways, but when they happen to be right, they happen to be REALLY right.