Tell me why Arapier should get the job over Holgerson

Assuming we miss on the bigger fish, if the list is down to Aranda or Napier why wouldn’t Holgerson deserve an interview as well?


The guy was a very well respected assistant under several of the most innovative minds in college football history for a decade before taking the West Virginia job.

He won the Big East in year 1 and dropped 70 on Clemson in the Orange Bowl before they moved to the Big 12.

He was a favorite of a lot of people during the Miles to Arkansas talk in 2012.

The difficulty of recruiting kids to Morgantown to play in a conference based 1,000 miles away was pretty apparent, and after middling around the Big 12 for several (with another 10 win season in 2016), he decided to head back to the South where he had spent his career, and took over a Houston program that had fallen on tough times after a couple of good seasons under Herman.


He currently has Houston at 10-1 and ranked in the top 20 with a showdown with board favorite Fickel and Cincinnati coming up in two weeks.

He identified Doug Belk, a GA at Alabama for a few years, and brought him to WV for a couple of years as secondary coach before promoting him to DC when he brought him to Houston. He has proven to be a great find and hire and has the Houston defense ranked fifth in the country.


Houston is also averaging over 38 ppg and 400 yards per game, with a balanced attack of 268 passing 150 rushing.


When comparing his career to other candidates like Aranda and Napier, I don’t think there’s any reason he shouldn’t get a look before the trigger is pulled on either of those guys.


His elite offensive background, which he has proven he can adapt from pure air raid to a more balanced attack, and ability to find and retain quality assistants on both sides of the ball make him more than qualified.


And before the “he’s a drunk” idiots chime in, no he isn’t. There were a couple of reports that he was asked to leave a casino or bar in 2011 before he ever became a HC, that were later found to be noise drummed up by Bill Stewart’s camp who didn’t like that WV brought in his succesor, which is why he resigned before 2011 and Holgerson took over early.