Tom Herman Named as Replacement of Coach Charlie Strong

Whether or not Houston attempts to keep him on as their new head coach or if Herman recruits him to Texas is still to be told.

“Experience tells me there will be a handful of top prospects that will drop Texas because of this”, the SEC coach said.

“Houston Football is committed long-term to competing for championships against top-tier programs on the national stage, and we continue to demonstrate this through our unprecedented investments in talent and new facilities. We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class”.

Texas didn’t waste any time in the search for former head coach Charlie Strong’s replacement. “To come up short in a game like this is very emotional”, Foreman said. “Pressure is self-inflicted. Pressure is self-doubt when you’re unprepared”. We’re prepared for adversity in this job. If, for some reason, the decision-makers feel that they can’t find such a candidate, then they should pick me… Since the former head coach still has two years left on his $5 million-a-year contract and there’s no buyout in place, he’ll likely be owed the full $10 million even though he won’t coach the next two seasons, according to a copy of the contract.

Make no mistake, Herman is an up and comer no different than Charlie Strong was three years ago.

That could happen as soon as Sunday, when the University plans a news conference.

Strong, the first black coach in the history of the proud program was “let go” on Saturday with a 16-21 record in three seasons. “He’s been a double digit underdog three times in two years at Houston and has won all three of those games outright (twice over Louisville and once over Oklahoma)”.

Unlike when Alabama hired Saban away from the Miami Dolphins, Ohio State lured Meyer out of “retirement”, or MI brought in Harbaugh from the San Francisco 49ers, there are no guarantees that Herman will have the type of success that should come with a big hire at the University of Texas.

Strong grabbed national attention when he arrived and immediately announced his “core values” of team rules: honesty, treating women with respect, no guns and no drugs.

“I think Tom Herman’s a great hire”.

Texas is desperate for a return to the nation’s elite.

Herman said he has given no thought to the possibility that the 5-7 Longhorns could still be invited to a bowl game based on their April if the bowls are unable to fill all the slots with 6-6 teams.

“The inexperience might be good because clearly whatever we’ve been doing for the past six years has not been working, so maybe he can bring something in and change things up”, said Schubert.

In Herman, Texas President Greg Fenves and athletic director Mike Perrin hired arguably the hottest young coach in college football away from Houston. LSU released a statement during a 54-39 win over Texas A&M which said that no decision had been made, and Fox Sports reported Friday that a meeting between Herman and LSU did not occur. Tom Herman has been officially introduced as the University of Texas’ new head football coach.

As Herman would have you believe, the only thing that was on his mind while his representatives were negotiating the incremental figures on a deal that would give him a lifetime of financial security was Houston’s game against Memphis. “I’m not ashamed to admit I cried when I did it”, he said.