Originally Posted by
bigcountry
Hahaha. You have to ask yourself if he will be better than Strong? Wow. I tell you what you do little ag, just sit back and see what this great coach on the rise is about to do at Texas. I'm glad our admin listened. I have had correspondence with them all week as has many alumni, and though we wondered at times, they listened to us, & did the right thing.
What The University of Texas has been lacking more than anything with it's football program is a football coach that is meticulously detail oriented and organized. The great coaches, such as Nick Saban, all have that quality. They go out of there way to cover EVERY detail of the football program. Not just being liked by players like a father figure, or good at instilling discipline (by the way, Tom Herman has the same 5 core values on that as Charlie Strong, all received while coaching under Urban Meyer), but cover the all important coaching schemes, the PR, the recruiting, facility management issues, .....everything. Tom Herman is that kind of coach. Texas Football will be on the rise, when a man of this work ethic & detail gets to use the resources available to him at a school like The University of Texas.
This from a Texas sports writer today:
While I jest, there really are no maturity issues with Herman. As one source put it, "that grill BS is self deprecating. You think Dabo wants to dance with his players? He's doing it to relate, and he does relate, but he wouldn't be like that at Texas. That stuff is embarrassing to a football coach but he loves his players and it's Houston. He has to relate to recruit and he's good at it. Maturity being an issue couldn't be more off."
If anything, Herman's obviously capable of extracting all the value out of marketing at Texas. But can he coach? Said the source, "He's on the cutting edge of kinetic learning. Nobody teaches through watching film anymore. Herman is out there teaching. He's a tried and true football coach. He's not simply a program manager."
I originally mentioned Strong was disorganized but a player of Herman's contends, "Herman is very detailed. We have to weigh-in every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We need to be holding weight, losing weight, or gaining weight and they keep track all the time. Things are a lot different than at Texas."
Herman has often been considered the next big thing and that notion is promulgated throughout the media, but one person familiar with Herman is especially high on him, stating, "he's at the very beginning of what he's going to become, like a musician or artist when they're entering the sweet spot of ability and creativity. He's just entering his prime. I can see him going to wherever and being like Bob Stoops where Bob was young but won big immediately."
The Longhorn Nation is back. A great coach is in place, and the proud tradition of greatness is on its way back to The University of Texas football program. Texas fans and alumni like myself can sit back and enjoy the ride! And........HOOK'EM DANG HORNS!!