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Case Closed: Willie Fritz's Magic Works at Every Level
The Houston Cougars are experiencing the Willie Fritz Year 2 bump and are bowl eligible with five games left to play. A Big 12 title game isn't out of the question.
Houston head coach Willie Fritz may have lost most of his voice over a 40-year coaching career but he still possesses the magic he’s used to turn struggling programs into contenders. We call him “Novocain” because his method will always work given time. He’s 30-25-1 in Year 1 as a head coach. He was 44-17 in Year 2 entering his second season in charge of the Cougars.
Few questioned whether Fritz could work that magic in Third Ward. Houston is a hotbed of recruiting talent and the Cougars would undoubtedly become conference contenders by Year 4 of the Fritz era. There were some doubts about how fast he could do it for a Cougars program moving into the Big 12 that wasn’t receiving a full media share yet.
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