Even Pat Forde doesn't believe that narrative. Sports writers have to be shock jocks today in order for anybody to read their stuff.
College athletics is a business. Texas Football is one of the few self-sustaining programs in the country that does not take state or university money. Matter of fact, they actually give to the academic side of the university most years. Some athletic departments have to take loans from the academic side of the university. Texas made an investment into their football program to continue the success, just like any other business would do faced with a decision about its future.
They took a run at Urban and had their hooks in him until the NFL came around, then they had to pivot to the next best option out there. Texas was not going to fire Herman until they had a coach signed. Sark is the dude, so let's see if it works out.
"So in that respect, this is just a bunch of rich guys deciding they need a new football coach and stroking the checks to make it happen. It would be nice if some of that money could go to restoring the jobs of those who were laid off, or refunding low-level employees who took a pay cut—but screw them. This is college football."
I bet TexAgs and you slurped a few sentences up in there like it was the nectar of the gods. Probably sent yall into a full body .....well you know..... The jar is full.
People were talking coaching trees earlier in the thread, here is Sarks developmental background and his primary mentor in life is an extremely succesful JUCO coach.
Steve Sarkisian (born March 8, 1974) is an American football coach and former player of American and Canadian football. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Washington, a position he has held since the 2009 season. Sarkisian played college football as a quarterback at Brigham Young University and professionally with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He has worked with quarterbacks during most of his coaching career. After a standout baseball an
Beyond this, I'm sure he has gained plenty of knowledge as a member of each coaching tree he has been a part of. He has far more experience than Herman in both the NFL and College ranks. I hope he can get it done at Texas! Would make for one H-e-double-hockey-sticks of a comeback story.
A kid to watch next season will be Bijan Robinson. Herman screwed him over as he is the best back on the team.
As a true fish. He played in 9 games with 6 starts. Had 915 all purpose yards in those games. His rushing stats. 703 yds on 86 attempts for an 8.2 average and 4 TD's.
With this new staff coming together, he's going to tote the rock.... a ton!
I wont be a bit surprised if he ends up between 1500-2000 yards rushing should he remain healthy.
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