I doubt this. What blue blood team is going to hire someone who had a 1-4 record against their biggest rival, and no conference championships, while at another blue blood program? Nothing gets an AD more heat than the football coach not beating their biggest rival, and having the ATM style trophy case.
What would be a better spot that Tennessee for Herman? Maybe USC, but they had a decent year this year, so is their coach on the hot seat? Can't really think of another place that might be open, maybe LSU if the NCAA heat gets high, but if Herman had issues getting along with Texas boosters and fans, imagine him with the Coon Asses.
Tennessee would be a good landing spot for him. Decent history - NC in the last 25 years, fertile recruiting grounds, big time league. Yes he'll have to compete against Florida and Georgia, and that will probably limit how effective he'll be, but better than the mid-tier school I figured he'd be going to in a year - a Wash State or NC State style school (not those, but similar to that in terms of stature).
As for the money, with 20 million earned and 15 more coming, neither he nor any big time coach ever has to work again. They do it because they like it. So the lure of being the coach is going to outweigh any money issues.
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