Update from Horns247...Re: Herman

17 minutes ago
I know some people are not going to like this update, but I can't help that. This has all the markings of a complete cluster*ck...
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According to a source close to the situation, Texas president Greg Fenves has been given a 48-hour timeline to express interest in Houston coach Tom Herman before Herman begins serious negotiations with other parties, including Oregon and Baylor. An acknowledgement of sincere interest from the university president is all that is being requested.
Although Herman's representative has been in touch with a Texas official over the weekend and through yesterday, Fenves personally had not reached out to Herman or his representative as of late yesterday. Nor had athletic director Mike Perrin or system chancellor Admiral William McRaven.
And that's key because Horns247 has learned that McRaven, Fenves and Perrin are running the show as a triumvirate of sorts, and they're doing so in that order of importance.
It's important to note that not one of the three have ANY expertise or experience hiring or firing a football coach. Yet they, led by McRaven, appear to be exerting their control over the situation and not taking much input from other concerned parties, including those who have an official capacity and responsibility to do so.
"They say they don't want this to be another Mack (Brown) situation," a source told Horns247 this morning. "But that's exactly what it looks like it's going to be. They want a process, whatever that means. I'm afraid they just don't get it."
Indeed.
Case in point of the trio "not getting it" came yesterday.
Charlie Strong was given a platform to plead nationally for his job despite a record where he could possibly lose seven games in each of his first three seasons at Texas, an unprecedented level of futility never before seen on the 40 Acres.
Like it or not, Strong's plea effectively dragged the Texas athletic department and the Longhorns through the mud, gaining empathy for Strong despite such poor on-field performance.
We watched senior Paul Boyette cry during an interview. "Charlie Strong deserves more than to twist in the wind," Boyette said. Boyette couldn't be more right.
Yet because of the trio's inaction, instead of Friday becoming an opportunity for players and fans alike to send Strong off on a positive note without media scrutiny yesterday or the rest of the week, the trio decided it's better to wait to swing the axe on Strong this coming Saturday.
What the trio have underestimated is that it is already costing Texas dearly in the eyes of public opinion. The apparent treatment of Strong will likely cost Texas in recruiting, giving the Horns a black eye because of its treatment of Strong.
It was Boyette, by the way, who asked Strong to address members of the team prior to Saturday's game after hearing ESPN reports that donors were pressing the Texas administration to hire Herman.
The bottom line:
So far, this situation could not have been handled worse. It's hurting the football players and coaching staff who are in a state of purgatory and it's hurting public perception, which will thereby injure recruiting.

Additionally, this "process" and the inexperience of the trio, particularly McRaven, in running a coaching search could cost Texas any shot at landing Herman.
The clock is ticking and I'm not sure the right person at Texas is even going to pick up the phone and call the country's hottest coaching prospect.
This is not theory. This is reality.

McRaven, Fenves and Perrin. Texas football is in your hands.
But if yesterday is any proof of your ability to lead and make decisions as it relates to football, Longhorns fans are almost certain not to like the results.