{"id":471761,"date":"2023-12-03T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471761"},"modified":"2023-12-03T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:58:33","slug":"willie-fritz-appointed-houston-manager-as-holgorsen-replacement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/willie-fritz-appointed-houston-manager-as-holgorsen-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Fritz appointed as new Houston manager;  replaces Holgorsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Fritz has been appointed as the new Houston Cougars head-coach after the college team had fired Dana Holgorsen a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz had been at the helm of Tulane, where he received the American Athletic Conference coach of the year in two straight seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coaching veteran set to lead the Coogs.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, the 16th head coach in Houston history &#8211; Willie Fritz<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqVKy0dnPV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/iqVKy0dnPV<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachWEFritz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CoachWEFritz<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoCoogs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoCoogs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAfdthEDi9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LAfdthEDi9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Football (@UHCougarFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UHCougarFB\/status\/1731345446457557393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old led the team to back-to-back AAC championship games, as they ended their regular season with an impressive record of 11-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one in the country has been better at leading and developing student-athletes than Willie Fritz,\u201d Houston Vice President for Athletics Chris Pezman said. \u201cOver his more than three-decades of head coaching experience, he has guided several football programs to historic success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old Fritz has spent the last 31 seasons as a head coach, starting at Blinn College (1993-96) and then coaching at Central Missouri (2007-09), Sam Houston (2010-13) and Georgia Southern (2014-15) before he was hired at Tulane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Fritz has been appointed as the new Houston Cougars head-coach after the college team had fired Dana Holgorsen a week ago. Fritz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":471762,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[22247,19386],"acf":{"announce":"The Cougars have found themselves a replacement","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\/471761"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471765,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471761\/revisions\/471765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471761"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471761"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}