re: LSU admins should NOT entertain being Herman's fall back plan

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AS RUMORS SWIRL, THE FUTURE OF TOM HERMAN LOOMS OVER COLLEGE FOOTBALL SUPERPOWERS LSU AND TEXAS

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Right now, the leadership at Texas consists of a president, Greg Fenves, with an engineering background who knows nothing about sports. He's suddenly getting advice from University of Texas system chancellor, William H. McRaven, a four-star Navy admiral once considered a candidate for Hillary Clinton's cabinet. The athletic director is Mike Perrin, a former trial lawyer the university brought in to soothe feelings after Steve Patterson's ugly ouster in 2015. All are inordinately bright men who are decorated and accomplished in their fields. But the problem here is that none of those fields is collegiate athletics. "Not confident in the process," said a high ranking Texas official earlier this week. "You have an admiral, an engineer and a lawyer in charge. Nobody has ever hired a football coach."

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Perrin is a bright man and a nice man, but we've learned in the past 18 months that he's as qualified to be an athletic director as someone who watches Law and Order reruns is to be a trial lawyer. Perrin messed up Texas's baseball search so badly that people in the athletics industry talk about it in the same whispered tones—the baseball search—your grandmother speaks about when she mentions a sick relative.

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For weeks, the biggest question in the college sports industry has been a simple one: could Texas actually mess up hiring Herman? The answer appears to be a resounding yes, as it is teetering on the cusp of getting embarrassed by LSU. (And let's face it, no one from the LSU athletic department has been invited to do a TED talk recently, considering the flurry of administrative blunders it has endured with Les Miles's flubbed departure and forcing the Florida game moved to Baton Rouge.) Let's not forget, Texas is capable of missing a layup. In 2013, Texas hired Steve Patterson over Oliver Luck as athletic director. Luck was the obvious choice with the superior resume and wanted badly to go to Texas. But Texas administrators got charmed by Patterson in the interview, and that hire turned out to be beyond disastrous.

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