Tom Herman Fired as UT Football Coach

If true, disappointing but still worth the move. Would have been my 4th choice (UM, BK, Campbell)

 

I don't think I've ever gotten a boner so quickly then lost it so quickly.

But I'ma focus on the positive.  Tom Herman is taking his smug ass somewhere else.

I wasn’t going to drink today, but now I have to make a booze run. This is not a Sark joke, but this is how I have to cope with Texas football.

1 minute ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Id rather keep herman

Seriously this if it’s Sark.  

We just keep going in fucking circles 

Edited January 2, 2021 by Spider2YBanana

Texas triples down on “potential” over “proven” after Strong and Herman experiments failed.  Perhaps they had no choice with bridges burned internally and hard No’s from higher hanging fruit, but from where I’m sitting this feels like a likely lateral move while hoping what you throw at the proverbial wall finally sticks.  Definitely not sexy or game-changing on day of the hire.  Will be up to Sark to create the sexy or we’ll be having the same ole conversation 3 or 4 years from now.

3 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Only a little over 1000 rep?  You might not survive this.

why because i think chip is normally full of shit?

Feldman confirming
 

We’re all proud and impressed with a guy in his 40s, who’s paid very well to act like an adult and not fuck college girls at his place of work.

Good job Sark.

Guy went 9-4 while showing up drunk to practice and games. Imagine what he can do sober!

This is a horrible hire in every way. Embarrassing.

Any kid on our roster with 2 brain cells should transfer. I encourage them to do so. 

Is CDC reckless? Stupid? Incompetent? All of these? Regardless, only an idiot would allow their son to play for this institution, with leadership this poor. 

This is the best we can do? Just fire CDC already. Sark is 42-33 as a head coach and he's a drunk. Was briles already taken? 

 

I was hoping that the thread title meant that we took on Cutty Sark as a sponsor.  Same thing, tho, I guess.

Heard that he's bringing Saban as DC.

Is this the ultimate head fake?  Feed Chip Brown Sark info. to let Urbs know what?  

 

8 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

FCB is only one reporting its stark right!?

Yeah...I’m gonna wait to be pissed until it comes from literally anyone else.

4 minutes ago, immamac said:

this sark news is fucking stupid sark isn't the guy.

Tell us more 

We better have gotten him cheap

5 minutes ago, Trutexan78 said:

Dude must give blow jobs in his interviews or something as he’s done nothing to justify his fall upward. Holy Hell, CDC, I thought we were leaving 2020 behind us? This is at best an even swap, but I think it’ll be harder to get rid of Sark after dark than Herman (who was very disliked). Sark’s actually not a thin-skinned prick. Sets UT back another 8 years.

I wouldn't like a Sarkisian hire but he hasn't fallen upward. He lost his head coaching gig, went back to assisting, and actually turned Alabama into an offensive juggernaut (being the first offensive guy to convince Saban he needed to open it up)*.

He's done very very well as an offensive assistant in his second go at that. Doesn't mean I want him hired as Texas head coach but failing up doesn't apply.

* - not true, had my timeline wrong, but the point stands

Edited January 2, 2021 by Huckleberry

Did you guys know that Saban lost to Louisiana Lafayette his first year at Alabama??

If this is true I'm fuckin out for another 4 years until we do this all over again. What a fucking joke

Guys don’t you see this is chess our last two splash hires we’re guys with winning records on the up and up that everybody want it and then they shit the bed so we reversed course and hired somebody who already shit the bed and he can climb the ranks with us five D chess  baby

This is the best we can do? Just fire CDC already. Sark is 42-33 as a head coach and he's a drunk. Was briles already taken? 

Ban thread. Delete user. 

I love the Surly overreactions to Sark.  I’m on board.

5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

People were generally happy when we hired Charlie Strong. 

People were generally happy when we hired Tom Herman. 

Maybe the Sark hate means we finally made the right hire, lol.

or we finally reached a point of total conciousness

Look on the bright side, a new generation of kids will be introduced to System of a Down.

Edited January 2, 2021 by David Dennison

I don't think Sark is a terrible choice for UT - assuming (as we must) that he's rid himself of his demons. He pulled UW out of its worst period in history (for which most of us here are thankful) and certainly has put in the time at Alabama. It will be easy for me to root for him at Texas.

If he can build a solid defensive staff - his failing at UW - he's got the ability with the resources at UT to do very well.

Yeah, he's no Urban Meyer but I think there is a very good chance he'll have success on the 40 Acres. Y'all did alright with the last former UW coach you hired (Darrell Royal).

I'll be pulling for you and Sark.

Was Billy Clyde uninterested?

Is this hire fucking with Nicky in any sense?  That's the only redeeming sense of satisfaction I can garner from this today.  Sark should be missing in Miami and Mac Jones throws four picks sort of freakout would at least make me feel a little better.

4 minutes ago, mdmost said:

You poor people thinking Urban Meyer was coming here still after he told us no. 

No shit.   If people are pissed at Sark because it's not Urban, well, they weren't going to be happy with anyone.  Sark has a ton of upside here.  I don't "love it" but it could absolutely work.   I definitely don't see him making the same mistake Charlie and Tom did hiring amateur hour staffs day 1 which was a big part of our problem the last 7 years.

Welp.

didn't see that one cumming.

at least squirming Herman is going.

Can he convince Tosh to leave ATlanta?  Because I'll like this hire a lot more if Tosh is coming.

Time to start the list of who we hire in 2023 after this no-talent drunk leads us to back-to-back losing seasons. I guess aspiring to beat Iowa State and TCU was just too much for CDC.

I've never felt less excited about a major coaching change here. 

Feels like when an NFL team hires a shitty Belichick assistant. Sarkisian had success at Bama because he was at Bama. He hasn’t had much success anywhere else.

25 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:

He's the Urban Meyer of alcoholism.

He'll fit right in with this bunch.😊

It’s funny watching people look at his win-loss record and that’s the level of nuance they put into their analysis. He took over a winless Washington team and a USC team under major NCAA sanctions. At one point he only had 50 or 60 scholarships to use. He did miracles under the circumstances. 

He is an elite recruiter who will hire plus coaches. The downside has nothing to do with his capacity to recruit and coach. He has more upside in that capacity than anyone this side of Meyer on our list. The downside are his personal demons. Not his ability as a coach. 

2 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

I wouldn't like a Sarkisian hire but he hasn't fallen upward. He lost his head coaching gig, went back to assisting, and actually turned Alabama into an offensive juggernaut (being the first offensive guy to convince Saban he needed to open it up)*.

He's done very very well as an offensive assistant in his second go at that. Doesn't mean I want him hired as Texas head coach but failing up doesn't apply.

* - not true, had my timeline wrong, but the point stands

 

1 minute ago, flatdawgs said:

I don't think Sark is a terrible choice for UT - assuming (as we must) that he's rid himself of his demons. He pulled UW out of its worst period in history (for which most of us here are thankful) and certainly has put in the time at Alabama. It will be easy for me to root for him at Texas.

If he can build a solid defensive staff - his failing at UW - he's got the ability with the resources at UT to do very well.

Yeah, he's no Urban Meyer but I think there is a very good chance he'll have success on the 40 Acres. Y'all did alright with the last former UW coach you hired (Darrell Royal).

I'll be pulling for you and Sark.

This is where I am. And optimism is more fun personally. 

22 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

What in the chicken fucking hell?  

A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw
A haw, haw, haw

(How many Surly grannies in that pic?)

I'm sure Saban is loving the timing.  Not sure if this thread is serious.  

They don't fire Herman unless his replacement has been inked. It's done, my dudes. 

If you made the awful trip to Maryland, this is a good day. 

Edited January 2, 2021 by Kevin O’Shea

Most incredible thing, is that Surly hasn't crashed yet

If it is Sark then fuck Texas.  I’m sick of this shit.

This is like when you take a hot chick home thinking youre gonna score and it turns out she has a dick

It’s more like settling for the fat chick at the end of the bar and then finding out she has a dick.

10 minutes ago, CUM2TX said:

its time to fire CDC. I knew he was an imbecile.

According to insiders, CDC wasn't in charge of the hire.  He'd been kicked to the curb by the BMDs.  You know, our "brain trust."

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