In a way it reminds me of Chad Morris getting the Arkansas job.
Everyone and their mothers knew that shit was doomed to fail, and sure enough, it did lol
Old friend alert
Don’t think I’m being hyperbolic when I say this one is going to be in contention as one of the worst coaching hires of all time.
This is a program that has been investing in football for well over a decade. Its athletics and NIL budget is in line with what most of its CUSA competition has to work with. This isn’t some resource-starved underdog trying to punch above its weight, nor is it a program that made the jump to FBS before it was ready.
He was handed a team that went 11-3 and, when their previous coach went to Temple, he took exactly one player with him. Most of the players returned to SHSU. And they went 2-10, one of those being against an Oregon State team that did not have a coach. There’s no obvious reason this team shouldn’t be capable of winning.
Sam Houston has fired coach Phil Longo. Sam Houston finished 2–10 in 2025 and are 1–7 in 2026, bringing the program's record under Longo to 3–17 overall and 1–11 in Conference USA.
@_PR_81 Bizarre stance, you typically stand perpendicular to the thrower and then move out if needed, he started standing parallel, which resulted in him correcting back into the baseline