Tom Herman fired from Texas
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:25 PM ^
If we’re still looking at Sark on his previous stops, he’ll also be drunk on the job quite a bit. So could be intriguing.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:10 PM ^
I foresee another coaching change four years in the future when Texas hasn't won the National Championship.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:12 PM ^
Take notes Michigan. You CAN replace a fairly successful coach during a pandemic.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:12 PM ^
Take notes Michigan. You CAN replace a fairly successful coach during a pandemic.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:26 PM ^
No you can’t. Harbaugh is the only man capable of coaching at Michigan and therefore no one else in the world could ever win 9 games at Michigan because harbaugh is the greatest 9 win coach in the history of forever. When Bo said there’s no man more important than the team you missed the fine print that says “except harbaugh” WERE A FUCKING JOKE! Thank god for Juwan Howard!!
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:28 PM ^
I wouldn’t use Texas as a shining example unless they replace Herman with someone better. It doesn’t look like that’s happening.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:40 PM ^
I would take sark over our current savior in a heartbeat as long as he’s fixed his drinking problem
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:52 PM ^
Based on his shining record at Washington and USC? Yeah, no thanks.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:15 PM ^
Would he take an OC job?
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:19 PM ^
So can we go after Herman for OC now?
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January 2nd, 2021 at 12:22 PM ^
UT drop any sports this past year?
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:22 PM ^
Can we get Herman and Gattis as Co Offensive coordinators? Give Herman the QB's aswell and Gattis the WRs.
Yes i know this will never happen...Wouldn't be surprised if he went to boise state, or if Fickel moves on to a bigger gig he ends up there
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:23 PM ^
Texas football and coach Sarkisian,
Longhorns and Long Islands finally join forces.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:23 PM ^
that’s what a competent athletic director does....Fuck Texas tho!
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:28 PM ^
No, I don’t think competent athletic directors announce they’re bringing a guy back, then fire him a few weeks later following a bowl game blowout win, then bring in a guy who was noted for being drunk on the job at his previous two head coaching stops with a poor record at two good programs...
How is that any better than Michigan/Harbaugh simply waiting until the NFL jobs become available?
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:11 PM ^
This situation has the Texas boosters written all over it. Not sure how it played out, but why now? Some group, and I doubt it was the Texas AD, decided Sark was the guy (why and for what reason) and was going to move the necessary mountains to make it happen in the last 2 weeks or so.
The hire might end up working out, although I doubt OU is worried. But the process is complete shit yet again which is why the flagship school of the most football mad state in the country has won as many national titles as Sarkisian's alma mater in the last 50 years.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:23 PM ^
No, I don’t think competent athletic directors announce they’re bringing a guy back...
Agree with everything you wrote, just to add: Announce they're bringing a guy back after publicly courting someone to replace him...
RX has a weird definition of competence.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
Firing Herman now, I suppose is a sort of competent move. Replacing him with Sarkisian I a disaster waiting to happen.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:26 PM ^
Would Dabo Swinney leave for $15 mil per?
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:31 PM ^
Maybe. If he can bring his church with him, I'm sure he'd listen, at least...
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:32 PM ^
Yeah, he’s probably afraid to live in Ann Arbor. Someone might do something evil like tells his kids about evolution.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:35 PM ^
Replacing Tom Hermon with basically Tom Herman. It’s a bold strategy Cotton.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
not sure if you meant Hermon and Herman, but I like it
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:18 PM ^
... let's see if it works out for 'em.
(Spoiler Alert: It won't! Herman is a better coach than Sark, and Sark will be gone in 3 years)
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:30 PM ^
In fairness, we probably can't predict Sark's future based on his past. If he's truly clean and sober now, he's probably an immeasurably better coach too.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
In late for the: "Ok cool, hook em'".
But seriously I agree with the post above. Basically replacing Herman with Hermon.
Yikes.
January 2nd, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
Whether or not Herman deserved to be fired might be debatable, but replacing a guy who's 54-22 with a 5-0 record in bowl games with a guy who's 46-35 with a 2-2 record in bowl games isn't an upgrade.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:03 PM ^
And the desert wandering continues ... this dude might actually die on the sidelines.
Should we start the Fire Sark thread yet?
https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/18378-herman-fired-sa…
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:10 PM ^
I’d l oh me to see him somehow get in at Michigan as OC with AHC titles and other stuff if it were ever possible.
Unlike Charlie Strong, Texas high school coaches really liked Tom Herman. That would be a solid path into TX recruiting.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:21 PM ^
Remember when Texas put out that statement saying Tom Herman would be their coach for 2021? Yeah, apparently no one read the part inside the parentheses that sat between "for" and "2021", which said "the first 36 hours of".
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:31 PM ^
If Texas had replaced Herman with some currently hot name like Matt Campbell or Luke Fickell it would make a certain kind of short-term sense, but tossing him for Sarkisian is a real head-scratcher.
Hard to imagine that UT boosters would have been agitating for Sarkisian.
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:17 PM ^
My guess is that this is rooted in the belief that magic dust from Nick Saban rubs off on his assistant coaches.
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:36 PM ^
"magic dust from Nick Saban rubs off on his assistant coaches."
If it does, Doug Nussmeier must have washed it all off before he came here.
January 2nd, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
I think some UT boosters were agitating for Sarkisian. I doubt the Texas AD went out on his own with this hire.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:27 PM ^
Texas Coach A:
22-4 record prior to TX; Four year TX record of 32-18 (7-6; 10-4; 8-5; 7-3)
Texas Coach B:
17-13 record prior to TX; First four years at TX record of 29-12-2 (6-4-1; 7-3; 9-2; 7-3-1)
Texas fans are thankful that Coach B wasn't fired after his fourth season in Austin.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:43 PM ^
Sadly we'll never see Tom Herman III Memorial Stadium in Austin
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:47 PM ^
College football in 2020 is very different animal than the time DKR was a coach at Texas.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:47 PM ^
Double post
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:11 PM ^
True, but in the last four years he had 7, 5, 4, and 5 losses. UT probably needed to go in a different direction and he did well to recharge his batteries and now he has UNC going in the right direction.
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:24 PM ^
I think he was referring to Darrell Royal not Mack Brown
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:44 PM ^
Stupid me. Thanks for the clarification.
January 2nd, 2021 at 3:04 PM ^
He did swoon again after getting things going after those first four years. Royal was smart (corageous??) enough at that point to take a chance on the wishbone offense and go on that 30 game winning streak.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:45 PM ^
If anybody has watched any number of bowl games it should just reinforce you how poorly Michigan is coached.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:48 PM ^
Bad news (I hope) for OU and OSU, as I suspect that Sark will be able to sell “new coach hope” and flip or recruit a couple 4 or 5 stars back to Texas next year.
Whether he’ll be successful or not, who knows, but prob a coaching change at Texas and resurgent A&M best hope that stopping the incredible Texas recruiting that OSU has done recently.
January 2nd, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
Looks like they’re hiring Sarkisian. Not sure what they expect him to accomplish there that he couldn’t at USC. The only difference is that this time around he’s (allegedly) not a drunk. In other words, I’m not sure what he’ll be able to do that Herman hasn’t. He doesn’t strike me as guy who can beat Lincoln Riley on a consistent basis and make the CFP.
Anyone can look good as an OC at Alabama these days, with the highly superior talent advantage they have over everyone they play.
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:00 PM ^
I think this is either a brave or questionable move for Steve Sarkisian. There is hardly a place hotter than Texas. Talk about a pressure cooker! It's worse than UM in terms of crazy meddling boosters and a fan base expecting National Championships.
He has an uphill battle to turn recruiting around. They haven't landed a top 5 instate recruit in 3 years.
He's going from playing a distant second fiddle at the Alabama Crimson machine to the front lines of arguably the toughest job in college sports.
If there's one place that will lead a guy to drink it's Texas.
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:11 PM ^
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidpollack47/status/1345428315419631616
Pollack at ESPN saying Sarkisian might have turned down Texas
January 2nd, 2021 at 2:19 PM ^
They wouldn’t have fired Hermann if he didn’t already agree to the gig IMO