Thank you, Coach Tom Herman

Nothing But best wishes to Tom Herman. I have no doubt that he worked his butt off to try to win here, lesson learned in my opinion (which I know is baseless) is to learn in not letting teenage boys run a program. But that said, good luck to Tom Herman I bet he’ll land somewhere and be successful
 
In my time as a Texas fan I have honestly wished every coach well after they left Texas from Akers to Mackovick through Charlie but none of them pulled what tommy terrific did with the EoT and frankly he is now gone for off the field stuff not the wins and losses so you will have to forgive me if I cant find any goodwill for that putz as he leaves.
 
He doesn't read "OrangeFans", so he won't see this.

He's leaving the program in better shape than he found it, which wasn't that difficult after Charlie Strong. A better coach can pick things up and move them forward. We shall see.
 
FWHORN said:
In my time as a Texas fan I have honestly wished every coach well after they left Texas from Akers to Mackovick through Charlie but none of them pulled what tommy terrific did with the EoT and frankly he is now gone for off the field stuff not the wins and losses so you will have to forgive me if I cant find any goodwill for that putz as he leaves.
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Yeah, it's not like he was terrible like Charlie Strong, yet only lasted 1 more season. Shows you how bad he messed things up in terms of dealing with the fans, big donors, and who knows what the real situation is with the team.
 
Duck Dodgers said:
He doesn't read "OrangeFans", so he won't see this.

He's leaving the program in better shape than he found it, which wasn't that difficult after Charlie Strong. A better coach can pick things up and move them forward. We shall see.
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While Charlie didn't leave a baked cake as he claimed he did, he inherited a pile of rotten eggs, spoiled milk and moldy flour to try to work with. The MB apologists don't mention that Charlie didn't have enough o-linemen to field a starting unit and had to convert a d-linemen just to field a unit.
 
Not everybody gets it right the first time. We're exchanging a coach who is just now learning this lesson for a coach we are banking has learned this lesson. I'm wishing luck to the both of them.
 
rick mueller said:
While Charlie didn't leave a baked cake as he claimed he did, he inherited a pile of rotten eggs, spoiled milk and moldy flour to try to work with. The MB apologists don't mention that Charlie didn't have enough o-linemen to field a starting unit and had to convert a d-linemen just to field a unit.
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True, Brown was mailing in the recurting from what I've read. Still, Charlie's teams were worse each year, not getting better, which is a bad indicator.

If the first year was 4-8 or such, then gotten better I'd have had more patience, but each year was worse under Charlie. Same MO at USF, so it's him, not the programs.
 
El Sapo said:
Not everybody gets it right the first time. We're exchanging a coach who is just now learning this lesson for a coach we are banking has learned this lesson. I'm wishing luck to the both of them.
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What I would wish for Herman is that he grows up, dumps the arrogance and the “I’m smarter than you” attitude, and that he realizes what he did to the program in the summer was unacceptable.
 
Herman would greatly benefit from working under Saban. However, his ego won’t let him take anything less than a HC job. Next stop Rice.
 
I will keep it mostly positive as I have been plenty negative in the past.

First a thank you for the 1 win over ou in 2018. It was the first ou game I attended in a while and my oldest son's FIRST ever ou game. It was a thrilling win we will both share for a long time.

We hoped you would succeed and bring the program back to greatness. We are all disappointed it didnt happen.

I wish you well in the future.
 
Tom,

Thanks for leaving the program in better shape than you took over. However, under no circumstances should you talk about baked cakes if we win 10+ games next year.
 
I wish him luck, but I will not miss him. Mensa my butt! I mentioned during the NC game that I did not miss Mack's screen passes on 3rd and ten and I dam sure will not miss Herman not understanding when to go for it on 4th down or being completely clueless when it comes to clock management. Finally, any UT coach who loses to a team the quality of Maryland in back to back seasons should be fired right after the game. Absolutely inexcusable.
 
I don't wish him any ill will at the moment. A man getting fired can't be a good feeling, even though he did it to himself. I'll reserve judgement on how I feel about his future. Because he has displayed such arrogance over the years he was here, I won't be surprised if he becomes bitter about UT, and expresses it publicly. He might be subtle, but we'll know. I'm just not sure he owns enough humility to grow from this.
When it comes to Texas football, this past decade has made me a "show me" guy, instead of talking about "we're back" guy. I need to see Herman grow up before I develop any warm fuzzies towards him.
 
BornOrange0855 said:
I don't wish him any ill will at the moment. A man getting fired can't be a good feeling, even though he did it to himself. I'll reserve judgement on how I feel about his future. Because he has displayed such arrogance over the years he was here, I won't be surprised if he becomes bitter about UT, and expresses it publicly. He might be subtle, but we'll know. I'm just not sure he owns enough humility to grow from this.
When it comes to Texas football, this past decade has made me a "show me" guy, instead of talking about "we're back" guy. I need to see Herman grow up before I develop any warm fuzzies towards him.
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He could go the Todd Graham route and end up at Hawaii (far off the beaten path).
 
I wish him a good life, but not as our head coach. He’s financially set for life so I don’t feel too sorry for the guy. He gets the last laugh on the way to the bank.

Places where he might ultimately land as a HC sometime in the future:

1. Brainy schools that don’t have much winning football tradition in recent decades—Rice, Duke, Stanford, Vandy, etc.
2. Back at UH.
3. A group of five school down on its luck.

Tech, where he could meticulously plot his revenge against UT 364 days of each year.
 
I find it very ironic how he is blamed for arrogance from people so confidently setting on their lazy boy chairs. He was not perfect, but boy did he have a perfect fan base.
 
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