That narrative and others settled in right after the clock hit zero on the TTU game. A beating of a crap TTU team occurs, and all the sudden the oceans are healed and Tom Herman is good to go with minimal staff turnover.
Got that 7th win and now the bleating from give the coaches more time crowd has restarted in earnest.
Allow me to reacquaint you with the retread from roundball, the nuisance from the NBA, Patterson’s Patsy and Interloper of Austin. One Felisa Israel. May she be driven into the sea or nearest available body of water down to and including a bowl that might cause drowning.
I’ve always wondered why we don’t approach our game atmosphere like the Masters.
One very overt thank you to Mighty Fine, Tiff’s Treats, SWA or whoever at the start of each half thanking them loudly for the next 30 minutes of ad free football.
And I’m talking about ad free football at the stadium and not on tv for whatever illiterate is madly typing up a reply about how we’re not the Masters after reading the premise.
Nothin wrong with that. Between the hashes is reserved for the rushing attack, and the once in a blue moon silver bullet to the TE/H. You just need the inventor running it and not someone who borrowed his playbook.
Separate issues. What Greg Davis was forced to run has no bearing on the fact that he never understood constraints and window dressing in either the passing or running game.
Tim Beck would love to air it out all day too. It doesn’t mean he gets the subtleties of luring defenders into attacking things that end up not happening.
I'd lump Greg Davis in with that group too. This X must react this way to that O. No consideration for the human reacting to their plays, how to dupe said human into getting out of position or the abilities of those running the plays themselves. This does this. See, it works on a white board.
Actually, Herman seemed pretty decent at it when he was in a booth calling plays, and had an honest to God mastermind managing the game from the sideline.But now he's being fed a selection fo plays from very linear thinkers, and signs off on them if it seems ok to him. And his penchant for trying to show the world how big his dick is means he's happy to keep pounding away at that peg/hole mismatch.
He’s an analyst. He’s also a good offensive mind.
Neither are set the world on fire hires. Just likely possibilities given Herman’s familiarity with them, and their probably not demanding guaranteed, multi year contracts to get back into the coaching game.
Well, dummy, we would also have a loss to OU or our one special OOC opponent at 10-1. But I’m sure they’ll put an asterisk on the trophy should BU win the conference.
Rhule took over a devastated and decimated Baylor program, and in three years has them in the conference title game with 10 wins. MF’er can coach.
If the occasional embarrassing loss bother you then you better not go hunting Urban Meyer.
Herman is safe because his buyout, plus the probable buyout for his replacement would be prohibitive. I guess they could just let the South Endzone project left undone for a year to pick up the tab.
Somehow I feel the cost of living isn't going to be a deciding factor for someone pulling in $5M+ a year annually in official money plus all the perks that come on the side from boosters and alums.
TO is terrible at identifying his best players and best alignments before the season and has to luck into something mid season that works. It’s Davisian level personnel management and evaluation.
We flat out stumbled into the lightening package part way through 2017. It took about half of 2018 to quit playing that passive ISU tribute defense, and only 9 games into 2019 before Todd clues into the fact that we have great athletes that suck at zone.
Deep in his bones Tom is still a Neanderthal, meathead football coach who’d prefer to run the ball for three yards, and then punt to to play defense. And he reverts to it often as though the dogmas he learned in his football infancy haven’t been warped by modern offensive football.