Kansas at Texas

[05_never_again]

Herman was the "hot" coaching property the year they hired him. Same year we hire Pruitt so think.

If Texas didn't take him, LSU was going to. In many ways, Texas took him to keep him away from LSU. The Tigers then ended up keeping Orgeron and here we are.

That'd be par for the course with Texas I guess. Don't even like the guy, but he's the hot commodity at the time, and you don't want another big program (that isn't even in your conference) to get him, so they hired him anyway.

 

[LouderVol]

Texas doesnt even look like they are trying in the little I have seen against WVU

 

[stolitonic]

That'd be par for the course with Texas I guess. Don't even like the guy, but he's the hot commodity at the time, and you don't want another big program (that isn't even in your conference) to get him, so they hired him anyway.

Yeah I guess. I don't think that the dislike was immediate or anything though based on what I have heard. They really thought that they had made a homerun hire at first.

What I have heard is that Herman is a very for lack of any better term liberal kind of guy. Very intellectual, but kind of looks down his nose a bit at people. Now, in Austin-that is kind of par for the course so not really a deal breaker. When you are dealing with the big $$ alumni at Texas though, many or even most of those guys are the types that Herman rubs the wrong way.

The whole "Eyes of Texas" thing was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back in the end though. The alumni were fighting mad about that, and once Herman supported the players the ball was set in motion. Once again, I'm not sure he really had a choice there as he was in a bad spot between angering the alumni or perhaps losing his team.

I can't really stress how big the song thing was in the Texas alumni circles. For comparison sake, I guess it would be kind of like the players wanting to get rid of Rocky Top and replace it with a Tupac song or something.