{"id":471065,"date":"2023-11-26T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471065"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:56:13","slug":"houston-dismiss-manager-holgorsen-after-5-seasons","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/houston-dismiss-manager-holgorsen-after-5-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston dismiss manager Holgorsen after 5 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston today fired boss Dana Holgorsen, who had 3 losing campaigns in his 5 years as head coach of the Cougars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By firing Dana Holgorsen, Houston will owe him a buyout of about $14.8 million to no longer coach the football program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/idNG02C4cr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/idNG02C4cr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1728818784008581279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Houston finished 4-8 in its inaugural Big 12 campaign, which included a defeat against Rice in September and 3 consecutive losses to end the season. The Cougars finished 2-7 in the Big 12, with their victories coming in OT vs. Baylor and on a last-second, 49-yard TD vs. West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Houston will owe Holgorsen nearly 15 million dollars in buyout money. Still, his contract features a mitigation clause that could lower the amount if he became a head coach in a different school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout his 5 campaigns with the Cougars, Dana made strides in our football program in many aspects and laid the groundwork for our transition to the Big 12 Conference,&#8221; Houston&#8217;s athletic director shared after the news of Holgorsen&#8217;s dismissal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston today fired boss Dana Holgorsen, who had 3 losing campaigns in his 5 years as head coach of the Cougars. By firing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":471066,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19523],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[19525,22187,22186],"acf":{"announce":"The school fired the head coach after 5 years.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471069,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471065\/revisions\/471069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471065"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471065"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}