If there’s not an alternative available that seems very likely to be an improvement, what should CDC do? If he dumped Herman now for some unproven replacement and we got even worse next year, fans and donors would lose their collective **** in an epic fashion.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. The culture created by Herman and placated by CDC is toxic. Recruiting is going south and alumni are quickly removing support. We will be the new Nebraska. Bring in the Lake Travis high school coach for all I care.
Everyone at the University who's title is not Athletic Director should stay in their lane and let CDC work this
My problem is, I have seen this show 2 times already. A very unpopular coach is retained for one year too many (Akers and Mackovic), the first time the opposing team gets a first down or the offense has to punt, most of the stadium erupts in boos and the season is lost. Oh well, another 5 years lost. At least 2022 recruiting probably wont be worse than 2021.
Well....... In other posts I’ve set forth a proven alternative who would coach much better than Herman, who has repeatedly kicked a$$ in the Big 12 with absurdly inferior talent, and who, no doubt, would be hungry for the job if approached. He mostly draws laughs—I guess because of his significant stature, his heavy presence in the coaching world, and the large shadow he casts (among ex coaches). I’ll stop mentioning Mangino after this post, but dang he would make us champions.
I will mention that I think Herman is the most hated coach ever at Texas. He had similar popularity to Mackovic, but then he surpassed that with his handling of the Eyes of Texas. I guess there are 25 million reasons to keep him, but there dam sure are not 25,000,001 reasons to keep him. What a disaster.
Just to make sure I have my calendar correct, you would have fired Mackovic in 1996. Now, would you have done that the week after "Roll Left" making us Big 12 Champions, which was his third straight conference title? Or maybe a couple of weeks later when he was preparing the team for the Fiesta Bowl, his second straight Tier One bowl appearance, when he was the hottest coaching commodity in the country? The separation after the 1997 season was in the best interest of both parties and given that he stuck around on the payroll for two more seasons was one of the more interesting episodes of our colorful athletic department's history. I too was around, and a season ticket holder, for the ugly final years and horrible handling of Coach Akers tenure, but to suggest that the proper follow up to that would have been to fire John Mackovic while accepting the Big 12 Championship trophy, seems like a deeply flawed vision. But hey, that's just me.
My thoughts are that Meyer either wasn't read to commit and the money wasn't right because to pay Meyer the salary he wanted could not be done due to the three years salary we would have had to pay Tom.
No doubt that Art Briles would be the absolute best choice to coach this team. He's a proven successful coach who has learned a lesson in how to not handle a bad situation but to be proactive and forthcoming. I'm sure he's been kicking himself in the butt for the way he handled that situation and has learned the value of discipline. He would turn things around as quickly as Meyer. Of course though, we're not going to let him be our coach. I just really believe he is our best choice. I was glad that he got canned at the time because his teams were kicking butt.
Undisciplined and emotional move to fire Herman without Urban waiting in the wings. Putting our hatred aside for Herman one more season will serve us best.....less time in purgatory. We can’t continue with training wheel hires. No one other than Urban is a sure bet out there right now. This is the right business move and I’m pretty sure CDC knows that, even though he doesn’t like it either.
Some of you guys would shoot your wife and the kids if she strayed a bit we are stuck with Herman for at least a year so get a grip and pray he becomes the second coming of St Darrell. If not he goes when the next Annointed appears come to think of it the bed wetters kicked Royal to the curb too
You know, man, the whole bed wetters thing is just tired at this point. Can no one have a different opinion than you without being given that label?