Herman Stays

Per 247 sports and CDC
I have no words. 2021 will be a fail for Texas football

BREAKING: #Texas coach Tom Herman will return as head coach in 2021. 247sports.com/college/texas/…

AUSTIN, Texas — Despite a flirtation with three-time national championship coach Urban Meyer by Texas administrators, Tom Herman will remain as coach of the Longhorns in 2021, UT athleticdirector Chris Del Conte announced Saturday.

 

The 2021 recruiting class is a turd, 2022 will be worst. It's almost impossible to come back from 2 classes like this anytime in the near future. We are no longer a football school....

 

There is some question per Twitter if 247 reported this correctly. Did Chip jump the gun or is it written in stone by CDC?

Original tweet

 

??? I thought it was an announcement, not a reporters opinion.

 

All the folks in Norman and College Station just giggled and peed their pants just a little.

 

Wasn't one of Trump's tweets, was it? CDC released a statement saying so...

Texas AD: Tom Herman will remain with Longhorns

 

Merry Christmas y'all

 

Bohls:
Chris Del Conte offers the most ambiguous, lukewarm endorsement in history when he says Tom Herman will be back in 2021.

 

Breaking: Texas Releases A Statement On Tom Herman

 

There was no quick fix out there. I wish this wasn't one of our best options, but the reality of the situation is that this outcome was predictable once Meyer rebuffed us.

 

I've had this feeling for awhile and have said so in multiple threads.

 

Once Urban was no longer an option it was pretty much a given that Texas wasn't going to put up 25M in buyouts for an unproven commodity. Not what I wanted but the decision is made and I get CDC's desire to be running to something and that he wasn't going to fire TH in a vacuum without a proven replacement.

So best I can do, we all can do, is get behind the team and support it in the bowl game and be ready next year to support it as much as we can as a fan base.

 

Agree, still have some gut rumblings but I know I’ll be supporting them come whatever.

 

Herman couldn’t get it done with the best talent in the conference this year and Sam. Next year could be very ugly.

If you can’t coach ‘em and you can’t recruit ‘em you probably won’t win with them.

I’m nauseated.

 

Rick, you nailed it!

 

I looked over the list of potential replacements... and I didn't see anybody that gets me as excited as I was when we hired Charlie Strong, much less Tom Herman. I like the coordinators Tom has in place and he's good at talent evaluation and does fine with talent development. Look for some of the kids he recruited/developed to go high in the NLF draft in 2021... something that has happened much around here lately. Is the program on the trajectory I hoped for? Not really. But if we're letting go of Tom Herman to steal the coach from Cincinnati or SMU... it looks like we'd be paying Maserati money for a rebuilt Camaro.

 

Just saw the flash on the bottom line during the Iowa - Wisky game. Welp! Hope TH and crew can develop our new 17th ranked recruiting class. The question now is, will the BMDs pull their support? This will be interesting, sad, but still interesting how the fans will react.

It might be that UM said "Thanks but No Thanks." And no other big time coach is available or even willing.

 

After a thorough review of the KSU game, I'm optimistic. We've got two badass running backs and a ton of young guys who are hungry. And focusing their energy on the field.

Clearly we need to continue with the running game + short passes on offense. And keep improving on defense.

 

My guess is yes, and that most probably already have. They certainly won’t be generous.

Perhaps CDC explained his dilemma — his financial dilemma — to them. He was between a rock and a hard place but like SabreHorn has said repeatedly, if there is a cancer, it must be cut out for the organism to recover. CDC didn’t do that, and for that reason my level of respect for him, and my confidence in him, has pretty much disappeared.

 

Yep! And neither will I. Contributing to the football program right now is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

 

CDC has made his decision for the 2021 season and the rest of us can choose for ourselves to move forward with CDC, TH and the Longhorns or just move on.

Go Horns!

 

Wish I could say that gives me some satisfaction, but in no way does it do so. Far from it.