Herman didn’t do himself any favors in the aftermath of their loss in Ames. Asked if he’d been outcoached by Matt Campbell’s staff, he said no. He would later say he’d misinterpreted the question, which seems a little dubious. How do you not understand something so basic? Even though he eventually shouldered his share of the blame, he left the impression he’d thrown his players under the bus. At best, it left you wondering about Herman’s social skills. Contrast his often combative, I’m-the-smartest-guy-in-the-room style with Rhule’s easy-going demeanor. Check out the latter’s Twitter feed. The most entertaining of any football coach in the Big 12.
I also want to add that I applaud Herman’s less than stellar performance in Austin. Knowing that they were more than aware that they were sticking it to us when they plucked him and now are after him with pitchforks for his lackluster performance just makes me smile.
Rhule is genuine and Herman is a caricature of a college football coach, which is a shame, because he can be a good football coach if he was just more centered and genuine.
Gimmicky coaches and those who act like they’re old school fire breathers with very little history to point to (Herman), have short shelf lives. If Herman gets canned, he can always find his way to another sideline, but he may be best served going to the NFL as an offensive coach in order to learn how to be a professional.
If he does, he could grow from that and learn that he doesn’t need the schtick to be a good coach.
my favorite gimmick from Vermin was when he started season 1 at tu and he had a huge fake diamond with chain around his neck and a baseball bat in hand getting off the team bus. “Mining for diamonds and keep swinging” was his lame mantra. It took the tu faithful about 5 minutes to tell him he was embarrassing them.
Hey EE, we finally agree. I felt he hadn’t gone through a full cycle. You can only tell how good a HC will be after at least four years at a school. This jumping from a job one or two years is going ot bite schools in the butt more often than not.
Follow up from the Horns board on Herman saying he was not out-coached.
‘Herman has since backed off that stance after thinking about his response over the last two days, and made certain to address it in his opening statements of his Monday press conference with the local media’.
“I do want to clarify something that has been eating at me for two days,” he said. “You had asked me something post game about being out-coached. I had taken that question to be, ‘Were we fooled? Were we duped, tricked?’ or whatever it is. But when you lose a game — any game — you were outcoached. I do want to clarify the context of what I understood that question to be.
“Any time you lose a game, you’re out-coached. From player execution — that’s our job, to get them to execute better — to play calls, tendencies to you name it. All of it is on us.”
