https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/cougars/article/Blake-Gideon-brings-fight-to-UH-coaching-staff-14271484.php
Back in the summer of 2011, Blake Gideon was not thinking about future job prospects.
All he wanted to do was fight.
A self-described “young, arrogant, cocky” Blake Gideon began yelling at an unsuspecting visitor to the University of Texas’ indoor facility.
“I walk in and Blake says, ‘What are you doing here?’ ” University of Houston coach Dana Holgorsen said. “He tries to fight me.”
Gideon was participating in a players-only 7-on-7 practice the summer before his senior season. Holgorsen, meanwhile, was entering his first season as head coach at West Virginia and had been invited to the Austin campus by Bennie Wylie, the Longhorns’ strength and conditioning coach.
“You can’t be in here, it’s a closed practice,” Gideon shouted at Holgorsen.
Then Gideon rounded up a few teammates.
“A few buddies that looked bigger and stronger than I do,” Gideon said. “We start walking over to try and intimidate him.”
Not long after, Gideon got a phone call. Coach Mack Brown wanted to see him in his office.
“What are you trying to fight a head coach for?” Gideon recalled Brown telling him.
All Gideon could remember is Holgorsen’s part, as Oklahoma State’s offensive coordinator, in a 33-16 win over the Longhorns the previous season.
“Well, that guy beat our tail,” Gideon said. “He shouldn’t be watching us.”