re: Sportscenter "Maybe Tom Herman should have taken that job in Baton Rouge"

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Jimbo lost to Saban and Herman lost to Maryland. We hired the right coach. Geaux O.

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O lost to Saban too.

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And he will wind up having a more successful HC career than O.

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The master of all Dumbasses proves it again and again.

Herman inherited fools gold at Texas. Charlie Strong's recruiting classes had good athletes, but not good football players. They have a QB who is average at best, a 250 pound running back that avoids contact, LBs who can't shed blocks and make a play to save their asses, and defensive backs who look lost on every other play. The WR Johnson looks like a stud, but they couldn't or wouldn't get him the ball. Add to that some pretty head scratching playcall decisions on both sides of the ball and you have the shite sandwich Tom served up Saturday vs the Terps.

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our loss to UAB was as bad as it gets and it shouldn't have happened guven the talent difference between the two programs. It did happen and that only proves that shite

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LSU losing to UAB is actually worse. UAB was in what conference, Sun Belt or maybe CUSA. That's a lower level than LSU. SMU, UCONN Navy are all in the SAME CONFERENCE as Houston. Herman lost to teams in his peer group. Sure he had a better team than SMU it was a bad loss, but that loss is like LSU losing to Kentucky or Vanderbilt. Or Texas losing to Kansas ornIowa State. It's a bad loss but that it is some kind of disqualifier is ridiculous. Plenty of reasons to be skeptical about Herman, losing conference games to teams he should have beaten isn't one of them

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More successful HC career than O

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The master of all Dumbasses proves it again and again.

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What do you mean? Be specific.

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Yes, so? Using a small, arbitrary selection of games is cherry picking and it's idiotic. It doesn't tell you everything and also can change rapidly.

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That's not an arbitrary selection, that's his career.


That's what we have to go on.

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This level of cherry picking in these 2quotes is truly mind boggling

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First off "mind boggling" is my word. Show a little creativity and come up with your own stuff.

Second, I was replying to a post that said these two things:
"Saban lost to UAB year 1 at LSU."
"Saban lost to ULM year 1 at Alabama."

I was not cherry picking I was asking what Saban did after those horrid losses in his first seasons at LSU and Bama. As you could see by my post, at LSU he won the SEC and the Sugar Bowl in his second year. At Bama he went undefeated during the regular season in his second season.

When the poster used the Saban examples above he was implying that Tom Herman is like Saban because he had a horrid loss to a shite team also.

I was merely pointing out that while Saban actually turned his teams around and had great second seasons with each one, TOM Herman got worse in his second season losing to Navy, SMU and Memphis and finishing in sixth place in his conference.

Don't really see what you think I am cherry picking. I do find it ridiculous people comparing Tom Herman to Nick Saban, Urban Meyer and who was your choice? Oh yeah, Pete Carroll. Ha Ha Ha

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Of course it's all true

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Sure is !!!

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but what you leave out is just shows you to be ridiculously biased against Herman for reasons that defy reason

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In my post asking what Herman did in his second season vs Saban at LSU and Bama? What exactly did I leave out that you find so appalling?

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Yes he lost to Uconn he also went 13-1, won his conference, beat a vastly more talented team in a major bowl and finished #8, which is probably the first top 10 finish at UH in over 25 years, but you focus on 1 game

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Yes he did. Again that was in the season in which he had the horrible loss to UCONN. My point was that Saban lost a game to shite teams at LSU and Bama in his first season. In the second seasons, Saban did much better. For Herman to be considered to be on par with Nick Saban he would have not done much worse in his second season and finish in 6th place in his conference and go from the #6 ranked team in the country to UN-RANKED after the Memphis loss.

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What did we have to go on for O?

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Big difference between the two is O's failure humbled him and taught him what he needs to do to be a successful head coach. Much like Saban's failure at Miami made him a better coach.


Herman doesn't have that humbleness...yet.

Maybe this job will give that to him. But many Texas fans are worrying right now that they hired another coach not ready for prime time.

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That's not an arbitrary selection, that's his career

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Wut?

His career is 27 games as a head coach, not 8. Singling out the last 8 is the definition of arbitrary.

Whats more relevant that he was 4-4 in his last 8 games or 18-1 in the previous 19? There are good reasons to question if Tom Herman was ready for a major job like UT or LSU when you cherry pick it undermines your argument.