re: Herman vs O

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I think Herman would have been fine at LSU. Texas is a very toxic place. And he wasn’t a disaster. He couldn’t beat Oklahoma and pissed off the wrong people with the eyes of Texas fiasco. I would like to se him get a lower level power 5 or high g5 job and work his way back up. Who would have thought kiffin or sark would be held in such high esteem 5 years ago? It can happen for Herman.

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Some of you are mired in thinking about hypotheticals between the situations at LSU and UT and are missing the more important data that’s in front of you. It’s the trend between Herman’s two head coaching jobs.

Everyone dismissed the man’s flaws at Houston, but they look all the more glaring now after he made the exact same mistakes at UT. His teams consistently played down to the level of their competition every season at both schools and lost games they had absolutely no business losing. When an issue like that follows a coach, it’s either him or his choice of staff. Considering that Herman just overhauled his staff at UT, it looks to me like a big part of that issue with team preparedness and mindset lies with him.

O isn’t perfect in this same regard. However, he certainly showed improvement in 2018 and 2019. But my comments aren’t to excuse O. I just think Herman gets a pass for a lot of shite that he shouldn’t. He’s just another G5 coach who looked great but wasn’t up to making the leap to the big time.