I actually wanted him more than I wanted Odom. I'm surprised by his lack of success.
OT: Tom Herman
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I actually wanted him more than I wanted Odom. I'm surprised by his lack of success.
Odom was a home run hire, and it looks like this guy was a strikeout!
Herman was the hottest name when Texas hired him a few years back after going 22-4 at Houston in 2 seasons. He won at Texas but not enough. FAU is tough they lose a lot more than they win over the years and turn over their HC every couple of years. Lane Kiffin did win there 2 or his 3 years. Herman didn’t even make it through 2 seasons, I’m not sure exactly what they were expecting of him but he took over for Willie Taggert who was an absolute dumpster fire at Oregon and Florida State so after 3 seasons at FAU I doubt he left them in a good spot when Herman took over.
All 4 teams in FBS with the Owls mascot have fired their coaches this season....or something.
One word Harbaugh
He coached and played under Jack at WKU, coached under Jim at Stanford and currently coaches under John for the Ravens.
He probably is a good assistant coach ( or maybe just was not exposed coaching under the great coaches that he has)
As a head coach he had a losing record in 3 seasons at WKU, 4 seasons at USF, was 7-5 at Oregon which may as well be a losing record there, didn’t last 2 seasons at FSU where he had a losing record and then in 3 seasons at FAU you guessed it had a losing record.
In reality he had 2 big jobs that lasted not quite 3 full seasons. I’m thinking his days as a D1 head coach are probably over bit crazier things have happened.
I’d look at him for HC too if that position opens. Sometimes I wonder though if a guy who was paid 20million to leave Texas and now 4 million to leave FAU has the same drive and motivation as he did before he earned that first big payday. He wouldn’t be the first.
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