Houston has fired head coach Major Applewhite after two seasons with the university.
Applewhite went 15-11 in two seasons as the head coach of the Cougars. Houston will owe Applewhite a 1.95 million buyout.
“We’d like to thank Coach Applewhite and his family for their commitment to the success of the Houston Football program over the last four seasons including the last two as our head coach,” said Houston vice president for athletics Chris Pezman via statement. “After a thorough evaluation of our football program, it is my assessment our future opportunities for success are better addressed by making this very difficult decision now.
“While the immediate future may be challenging, our future at UH is very bright. We’ve made many sizable improvements over the past five years, and I look forward to enhancing our future success through the hiring of our next head coach. At this time we have already begun the search process for our next head coach and will not comment further until the search is concluded.”
The Cougars started the season 7-1 but lost four of their last five game including a blowout 70-14 loss to Army in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. Applewhite went 0-3 in bowl games during his tenure.
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