I don’t know if Herman is the answer or not. But I will say the notion that Charlie left this program in a better place than he found it is patently false. I’m guessing posters say this in order to grasp at something, anything, to make themselves feel better about the absolute shitsandwich that Charlie created while in Austin. No cake was baked unless you’re into cow dung paddycakes.
Charlie took a team that was a half away from winning the big12 with a functioning retard at quarterback and turned it into a losing culture. Don’t get me wrong, Mack needed to go because he had us stuck in 8 win purgatory. But what did Charlie do while he was here other than make getting buckfucked and blown out the norm? He got rid of entitlement? Fantastic. We traded entitlement for acceptance of getting buttfucked. Bad trade in my opinion.
And go look at the 2015 and 2016 recruiting classes. Total shit.
2015:
Ryan Newson Gone.
Chris Warren Gone.
Kai Locksley Gone.
Hilton Hill Gone.
Gilbert Johnson Who?
Devo Clarington Never made it.
Deandre McNeal Gone.
Cecil Cherry lol gone fast.
DuVonta Lumpkin el gonzo.
Brandon Hodges gone.
Quincy Vasser who?
Kirk johnson broken
Buck Major now a wrestler
matt merrick gone
and also Malik and deshon Elliot went pro early. The 2015 class, which should be our seniors is decimated. 2016 is only marginally better. Truth is, Charlie was a shit recruiter who had his hands full trying to coach during the season (sucking at it too) and waited to the 11th hour to finally start recruiting. And he managed to salvage a decent ranking by getting ranked players that other teams probably didn’t want that bad anyways or they would have committed elsewhere earlier.