September 10, 2025 • 8 mins
UH Willie Fritz Joins The Show Before Colorado Match Up
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The Joint Chiropractic is the official chiropractor of University of
Houston Athletics, and they help us bring Willie Fritz to
you every week before the big Game.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Two days before the big game, which will be Friday
night at TDECU Stadium against the Colorado Buffalos, and Willie
Fritz is with us here on the show. Well, I
didn't realize you and Dion were so tight. He said
some very nice things about you earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Oh, I would not say that. You know, he seems
like a heck of a guy what he had to
go through, you know, just been so positive in that
remote roll model for everyone, you know, battling cancer and
just I've met him a few times and always heard
a lot of good things about him.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Can you Willie talk nil with your fellow coaches or
is that somewhat of a taboo conversation piece because everybody's
got to do it a little bit differently.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh, you know, you talk a little bit about it,
but everybody's different, you know, no question about it. And
you'll you'll you'll talk to you know, different schools, and
you know, I've been doing this a long time, so
I know a lot of coaches you know, across the
country and not just in the Big Twelve, but in
other leagues as well, and you'll compare notes a little
bit and see how they're doing things.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The first things first we get before we get to
the game. Let's recap what happened last Saturday. First of all,
to hold a two football teams in two different games,
so a total of one defensive touchdown, you can't be
more plays their defense right now.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, they've really done a great job. You know, Austin
Armstrong or defensive coordinator, and you know all the guys
on the defensive staff, it's a lot of them. And
then obviously the players, I mean they bought into we're
running something different than what we did last year, and
we're a good defense played last year, but something different.
But the main thing that we do I think an
(01:55):
excellent job of is tackling takeaways, you know, playing with
great leverage. We tackled it real good again this past week.
We tackled great week one, and that's just you know,
the scheme is very important, but it's not as important
as the fundamentals, especially the tackling. Tackling component, and uh,
you know, coach Armstrong and the staff really does a
(02:16):
great job of emphasizing and teaching it to the guys
every single day.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was seven to three at the half, you get
the touchdown late to uh to take the lead at
the intermission. Was there any sense of maybe we should
let things loose a little bit more in the second
half because that wegman h seventy five yard touchdown throw
was very impressive.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, you know, we uh, you know, we had a
lot of opportunities. You know, it's just, uh, you know,
like I've said the first few weeks, we're just we're
trying to get everybody together on the same page. There's
a you know, sometimes you run some deep outs and
the receiver doesn't run it exactly the way you needed
(02:56):
to run it, or pass protection you know wasn't fund
for just another split second or count. But on that
long touchdown pass to Stephan Johnson, you know, just great
protection and uh, fabulous throw by Connor, obviously great catch
and run by by Stephan and H. You know, we
want to we want to be able to stretch the
(03:18):
field vertically and have a pretty good job of stretching horizontally.
Do we need to get more shots down field and
the run game opens up the pass game, and the
pass game opening opens up the run game, and uh,
you know we're still you know, getting better and uh,
you know we would take another step forward this week.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well you took the words right out of my mouth
about the run game opens up the passing game. Dean
Connor has had a breakout game for you. Clearly playing
against his old team had to be something special. But
you want to see that obviously through the course of
the year. What attracted you to getting him to your
campus And obviously the breakout game against the Owls was
something thing, but you want him to do some things
obviously during the course of the season as well.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, you know i've seen him when was that Rice
when I was at two lane, and then also obviously
last year when we played Rice and when we got
on the portal, that was you know, we we we
had good backs. We've got good backs. Uh, but we
got you know, there's a chance to have another guy
and that's a that's a position, you know where there's
(04:18):
a lot of wear and tear on those guys. And
you know, thank goodness we grabbed him and got him
because you know we shots is now out for Rashaan
Stamford is now out for the season, and we were
able to you know, bring Deane in and we still
got good depth there Stacy, Steve and DJ Butler and
(04:38):
hopefully we're gonna get Jamri and Burnett back in a hurry.
But uh, you know, he just does everything well. He's
a good pass receiver, he's uh, you know, does a
good job running in the core between the tackles. He
does a good job running out on the perimeter. He's
a good uh blocker. But the main thing is he
just doesn't make very many mistakes. You know, he minds
(05:00):
up right, you know it does his assignment properly, and
you know it's so so important, you know, all positions,
but particularly on the offensive side of the ball with
running backs, make sure that they know exactly what they're
doing because you know, they're involved in protection, they're involved
in you know, pastor out of concepts, and obviously running
the ball as well.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
All that is good and looking forward for the when
coming up here against Colorado. They went with three quarterbacks
against Delaware last week.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Earlier this week, obviously.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Coach Prime decided to go with one of the young
men and tell you who the starter wasn't I don't
think he was doing it for your benefit.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Maybe just for the kids benefit.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But even with that being said, my assumption is your
scout team and your defense will be preparing for more
than one quarterback that.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
May not play on this game against the Buffaloes.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, you know, they're all probably a little bit different,
but they've got an offensive system that they run and
it's similar, irregardless of who's back there playing quarterback form
same thing with us. You know, we're gonna you know,
there will be a little bit things we do different
if we played another quarterback, but you know, buy and large,
(06:09):
it's going to be the you know, the same offense.
You know, whether they play the guy who's been playing
quite a bit, you know the first couple of games,
or a young freshman or this guy that they're saying's
going to start. So uh, you know, we're just preparing
for the offense and then understanding, you know, there really
hasn't been enough plays to be able to, you know,
(06:31):
in this season to see the difference you know, with
all three you know, and you know we're playing you know,
two games and really splitting duty the second game, don't
have a real large bought body of your work. We'll
see who's playing when we we get out there and
the balls kicked off at six thirty five Friday night.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Six thirty five should be a real nice ballbing night
for those people in Denver who like the thin era.
I'm sure that I don't know how coach Proma getting
ready for that, but I don't care if they do
or not.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I hope you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Guys are ready for you. Cramping hasn't been too bad
so far. But man, this weather has not been conducive
for fall football yet.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Has it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you know it has been the last couple of days,
but you know the two days ago. Heck, I think
by the end of practice about seventy seventy seven seventy
eight degrees starting to a little bit. But uh, you know,
you just got to play, you know, irregardless of what's
going on. And you know, we're really lucky and fortunate
that we've got a you know, a beautiful indoor facility
(07:32):
where we can go in for part of practice, and
we've got two really really nice grass practice fields, and
then we can always go out to the stadium as well,
which we did today. You know, you want to get
work and you know the venue that you're going to
be playing in, and so we're we're fortunately we got
unbelievable facilities here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Congratulations coach on this nice start. Looking forward to a
big crowd on Friday and another victory and open up
Big twelve league competition.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
With a victory. Thank you for the time of see
you on Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Go Kooks.
The Joint Chiropractic is the official chiropractor of University of
Houston Athletics, and they help us bring Willie Fritz to
you every week before the big Game.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Two days before the big game, which will be Friday
night at TDECU Stadium against the Colorado Buffalos, and Willie
Fritz is with us here on the show. Well, I
didn't realize you and Dion were so tight. He said
some very nice things about you earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Oh, I would not say that. You know, he seems
like a heck of a guy what he had to
go through, you know, just been so positive in that
remote roll model for everyone, you know, battling cancer and
just I've met him a few times and always heard
a lot of good things about him.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Can you Willie talk nil with your fellow coaches or
is that somewhat of a taboo conversation piece because everybody's
got to do it a little bit differently.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh, you know, you talk a little bit about it,
but everybody's different, you know, no question about it. And
you'll you'll you'll talk to you know, different schools, and
you know, I've been doing this a long time, so
I know a lot of coaches you know, across the
country and not just in the Big Twelve, but in
other leagues as well, and you'll compare notes a little
bit and see how they're doing things.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
The first things first we get before we get to
the game. Let's recap what happened last Saturday. First of all,
to hold a two football teams in two different games,
so a total of one defensive touchdown, you can't be
more plays their defense right now.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, they've really done a great job. You know, Austin
Armstrong or defensive coordinator, and you know all the guys
on the defensive staff, it's a lot of them. And
then obviously the players, I mean they bought into we're
running something different than what we did last year, and
we're a good defense played last year, but something different.
But the main thing that we do I think an
(01:55):
excellent job of is tackling takeaways, you know, playing with
great leverage. We tackled it real good again this past week.
We tackled great week one, and that's just you know,
the scheme is very important, but it's not as important
as the fundamentals, especially the tackling. Tackling component, and uh,
you know, coach Armstrong and the staff really does a
(02:16):
great job of emphasizing and teaching it to the guys
every single day.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was seven to three at the half, you get
the touchdown late to uh to take the lead at
the intermission. Was there any sense of maybe we should
let things loose a little bit more in the second
half because that wegman h seventy five yard touchdown throw
was very impressive.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, you know, we uh, you know, we had a
lot of opportunities. You know, it's just, uh, you know,
like I've said the first few weeks, we're just we're
trying to get everybody together on the same page. There's
a you know, sometimes you run some deep outs and
the receiver doesn't run it exactly the way you needed
(02:56):
to run it, or pass protection you know wasn't fund
for just another split second or count. But on that
long touchdown pass to Stephan Johnson, you know, just great
protection and uh, fabulous throw by Connor, obviously great catch
and run by by Stephan and H. You know, we
want to we want to be able to stretch the
(03:18):
field vertically and have a pretty good job of stretching horizontally.
Do we need to get more shots down field and
the run game opens up the pass game, and the
pass game opening opens up the run game, and uh,
you know we're still you know, getting better and uh,
you know we would take another step forward this week.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well you took the words right out of my mouth
about the run game opens up the passing game. Dean
Connor has had a breakout game for you. Clearly playing
against his old team had to be something special. But
you want to see that obviously through the course of
the year. What attracted you to getting him to your
campus And obviously the breakout game against the Owls was
something thing, but you want him to do some things
obviously during the course of the season as well.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, you know i've seen him when was that Rice
when I was at two lane, and then also obviously
last year when we played Rice and when we got
on the portal, that was you know, we we we
had good backs. We've got good backs. Uh, but we
got you know, there's a chance to have another guy
and that's a that's a position, you know where there's
(04:18):
a lot of wear and tear on those guys. And
you know, thank goodness we grabbed him and got him
because you know we shots is now out for Rashaan
Stamford is now out for the season, and we were
able to you know, bring Deane in and we still
got good depth there Stacy, Steve and DJ Butler and
(04:38):
hopefully we're gonna get Jamri and Burnett back in a hurry.
But uh, you know, he just does everything well. He's
a good pass receiver, he's uh, you know, does a
good job running in the core between the tackles. He
does a good job running out on the perimeter. He's
a good uh blocker. But the main thing is he
just doesn't make very many mistakes. You know, he minds
(05:00):
up right, you know it does his assignment properly, and
you know it's so so important, you know, all positions,
but particularly on the offensive side of the ball with
running backs, make sure that they know exactly what they're
doing because you know, they're involved in protection, they're involved
in you know, pastor out of concepts, and obviously running
the ball as well.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
All that is good and looking forward for the when
coming up here against Colorado. They went with three quarterbacks
against Delaware last week.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Earlier this week, obviously.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Coach Prime decided to go with one of the young
men and tell you who the starter wasn't I don't
think he was doing it for your benefit.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Maybe just for the kids benefit.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But even with that being said, my assumption is your
scout team and your defense will be preparing for more
than one quarterback that.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
May not play on this game against the Buffaloes.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, you know, they're all probably a little bit different,
but they've got an offensive system that they run and
it's similar, irregardless of who's back there playing quarterback form
same thing with us. You know, we're gonna you know,
there will be a little bit things we do different
if we played another quarterback, but you know, buy and large,
(06:09):
it's going to be the you know, the same offense.
You know, whether they play the guy who's been playing
quite a bit, you know the first couple of games,
or a young freshman or this guy that they're saying's
going to start. So uh, you know, we're just preparing
for the offense and then understanding, you know, there really
hasn't been enough plays to be able to, you know,
(06:31):
in this season to see the difference you know, with
all three you know, and you know we're playing you know,
two games and really splitting duty the second game, don't
have a real large bought body of your work. We'll
see who's playing when we we get out there and
the balls kicked off at six thirty five Friday night.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Six thirty five should be a real nice ballbing night
for those people in Denver who like the thin era.
I'm sure that I don't know how coach Proma getting
ready for that, but I don't care if they do
or not.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I hope you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Guys are ready for you. Cramping hasn't been too bad
so far. But man, this weather has not been conducive
for fall football yet.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Has it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you know it has been the last couple of days,
but you know the two days ago. Heck, I think
by the end of practice about seventy seventy seven seventy
eight degrees starting to a little bit. But uh, you know,
you just got to play, you know, irregardless of what's
going on. And you know, we're really lucky and fortunate
that we've got a you know, a beautiful indoor facility
(07:32):
where we can go in for part of practice, and
we've got two really really nice grass practice fields, and
then we can always go out to the stadium as well,
which we did today. You know, you want to get
work and you know the venue that you're going to
be playing in, and so we're we're fortunately we got
unbelievable facilities here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Congratulations coach on this nice start. Looking forward to a
big crowd on Friday and another victory and open up
Big twelve league competition.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
With a victory. Thank you for the time of see
you on Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Go Kooks.
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