Tom Herman staying at Texas
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They are retaining him..... For now..... If Urban Meyers came out of retirement they would fire Herman in a heart beat.
He has done a good not great but good job. Smart for them to keep him.
If I were Herman I would find another job ”ASAP” and stick it to them.
Meyer said no, so they stick with Herman. Can‘t be great for recruiting to have this distraction.
Not hard to see he is a lame duck coach. Recruiting just got a little harder for UT
Kinda like a husband finding out his wife has been sleeping around but they decide to stay together for the kids
More like the cheating husband proposed to the mistress, but she declined so he had no choice but to stay with the current wife.
That's impossible. Interneters on here assured us Meyer would take the Texas job.
I suspect Herman will do just fine at Texas. Personally, I hope he does just well enough that they can't fire him, but doesn't do so well that they actually make the playoffs.
I suspect Herman will do just fine at Texas. Personally, I hope he does just well enough that they can't fire him, but doesn't do so well that they actually make the playoffs.
Lame duck, eaten by his own. Whether or not Meyer was offered, it was stupid to make it public.
They are just staying with him until they can trade up to a better boyfriend. Emotionally Texas has already checked out.
It was pretty telling that Herman has 3 years on his contract but the AD said yesterday that Herman will be back in 2021.
As a fan, that would be a bad situation to be in. Writing is on the wall and the inevitable is being delayed. Would be hard to get excited over the off season for this program. Meanwhile your rival (who you know longer play) seems to have turned the corner with Jimbo.
Now that they struck out with Urban, I’m not sure who will be a big enough name for them even next year to fit their outsized expectations of themselves in Austin. Saban is too old now. Dabo would only leave Clem for one place and it’s not Texas. The only other active coaches who have won a championship are Mack, Ed O, and Jimbo and none of those are happening. So if they fire Herman next year, they’ll have to roll the dice with another up-and-coming, can’t-miss young coach like Herman was prior to Texas.
There are never more than one or two elite coaches at work at any given time - three at the most - which is not the case now. If Herman is less than elite, he is still good enough to use what they have to go a long, long way. Mack Brown got them all the way to the Promised Land, and while he is excellent, he is not in the pantheon of elite coaches. Those people out there need to put two and two together and wake up. They have an excellent coach but they are poisoning their own well. This is sort of a mess now.
If I'm Herman, I'm telling my agent to put out some feelers to Auburn. If they're willing to pony up, I'm heading to the plains just to stick it to Texas. Auburn boosters are almost as ridiculous as Texas's. But it would at least fresh start and Herman would have the ol' "You can't fire me! I quit!" with a middle finger walking out the door.
I would have a hard time working for someone knowing that they wanted me gone.Then again u can look at it as a way to prove them wrong in hiring you.
If you’re on a fence about a coach and then he chooses to leave on his own meaning he owes you a buyout for leaving rather than you owing him $15M for firing him, I’m sure Texas would welcome that type of “sticking it” to them.
Apparently it wouldn’t be cheap for Herman to voluntarily exit Texas:
- Buyout if coach leaves for another coaching job: $3,000,000 for each remaining year on contract plus the amount of salary the school would have to pay assistants under contract
You could. But recruiting wise, they're cutting him off at the knees.
The "sticking it" is really to their collective ego. "But, but... you can't leave us! We're TEXAS!"
BTW, Herman wouldn't pay them a dime. The school hiring him would.
Which makes it even less like anyone would choose to hire him away from UT right now, especially a school that is paying $21M just to get rid of their previous coach.
And no matter who pays it, Texas would get “stuck” with the newfound money and get to keep their own, in your unlikely scenario.
But who are they going to get? Meyer just turned them flat down.
I love that idea. Better yet, improbable though it is - would be if somehow Meyer wound up at Auburn.
Another up and comer liked Herman was. Maybe Matt Campbell. Trust me, Texas won’t cry it Herman “sticks it to them” by leaving without getting his buyout.
Wouldn't Herman be a better match at Michigan? He has B1G experience, and the Harbaugh relationship is even more tenuous than the situation in Texas. Michigan fans might not like a former OSU assistant though.
It's ironic in a way. I remember when A&M pulled out all the stops in an effort to get Schembechler from Michigan. It seemed strange to me and it didn't happen, but they were deadly serious about it.
The big hit on Herman lately is his recruiting....he apparently just doesn't connect with recruits. I'm still not convinced Herman won't eventually become a good coach.
How many teams wouldn't? If Urban inexplicably decided he just wanted badly to be the coach at South Carolina tomorrow and he convinced the administration that he wasn't joking or trolling them, how long would it take for them to ask Beamer to step aside and let Urban coach?
That's a big difference from the university openly courting Meyer while they still have a coach under contract. And then the AD says -- after being spurned -- that Herman's here for next year
I don't think the Texas administration would be too disappointed with that.
