Herman can take his big program pedigree and latch onto another top tier school, UH isn’t his dream job - the longhorns gig was his destiny calling. Anyway Cougars don’t want him or his pompous rump. Herman got buckets full of Longhorn money, he’s gotten his payday to last him a lifetime.
He could have gotten away with that at UCF or Memphis but not here. This city is big on loyalty and trust. Plus the amount of hatred for UT and disappointment from UT fans wouldn't work out well for him during intros. He can kiss my ass coming off the bus.
Cougar fans always make a big stink about how they'd never take Coach X or Y back but the flat truth is that nearly all of them would absolutely take back Satan himself if it meant 10 wins a year. Losing a coach every 3 or 4 years is a hell of a lot better than firing a coach every 3 or 4 years.
I don't know how any UH fan can be happy with Dana Holgerson. I have dog cussed Herman and took immense joy in his failures since he left Houston, but he is better than what they have now.
Herman's an assistant with the Bears and a championship-level coordinator. He built what relationships he could with Houston high school coaches and left once a drastically better opportunity came along. Now he's in the league and doesn't have to deal with bs from entitled alumni or third party fan bloggers.
I'd take him back in a heartbeat. He's one of the bigger reasons the football program is currently even looking the way it is now as far as all the facilities. Sure he left, so what. It's college football it happens. But he was the right coach for UH. He left the program 10x better than what it was before he coached there
Herman failed at UT and was a jackass with how he left UH... he trashed the car that the booster gave him and left it parked on the "no parking" area by the airport. He really was not a good guy at the end of the UH portion of his coaching career. Having said that, Herman will never have to work another day in his life if he doesn't want to.... his UT buyout alone was $15,000,000. He has by all accounts a good wife and family, he is relatively young and in good physical shape... so he has it better than 99.95% of people in the world. He is working with the Chicago Bears and will likely try his hand in the NFL for awhile. His game planning is excellent when given time, he is also very bright... so I wouldn't be surprised if he is successful in the NFL.... and he doesn't have to act like he is a mentor to "young men" in the NFL, he can be the ruthless, win at all costs type he really is. As for UH.... they need to get into the Big XII with the rest of the "not quite good enough for primetime players" in that conference (Everyone but UT and OU) and see if they can start winning and possibly hop conferences down the road or get enough coverage and money to attract better coaches and athletes.
Why would he go back? is their fanbase desperate? DH is not a bad coach, he's got to deal with the cards he was handed with. Where's Sumlin?
Should be noted that he did not leave any of his last three jobs on good terms. All accounts was that he was a jackass during his tenure at UT as well pissing off admin, players, parents, HS coaches, etc...
LOL so that story is true? I remember hearing he "left in the parking lot", but not that he lit it on fire and crashed into into a "do not park here" zone. It's year 3, dude. They're his cards. He's sleepwalking his way to an early exit here with that pathetic checkdown offense. Behind closed doors Herman was always doing this blustery, big dick, "my way or the highway" stuff. Which absolutely works when you're winning, but gets real dicey when you're losing. In public he made a big effort to embrace the culture of the fans and players. You don't get to the top of the heap in any business without stabbing a few people in the back, but it's kind of a bummer hearing how much of an ass he was for just no apparent reason.
Yes, he drove up to the drop off spot at the airport.... parked the car, got on the plane and left the car there. The car was obviously immediately ticketed and towed. The car also had damage to it and was full of trash and dip stains (I didn't even know he did dip)..... he also broke the white board on his office wall by punching it and pulling it off the wall, and he flipped his desk over and left a massive mess for the cleaning staff to clean up.... it was so bad that photographs were taken and send to the administration. Basically he did everything possible to end the relationship on bad terms when that really wasn't necessary as the Regents knew he would leave for an offer from UT or Ohio State...... I know that one administrator that knew him well said they felt he did it all to justify his leaving.... it was shocking to them. They did not see him acting that way at all because they felt they went out of their way to keep him happy. After he left there were whispers of some issues with coeds and covering some stuff up but I have no idea if that is true. I do know for a fact that the car story and the office story are true.
Holy ****. That's so insanely stupid. I can understand being a slob and trashing a car some mouthy booster gave you to tool around in, but trashing your office... the **** is the point of that? You're leaving dude, you don't have to make your current employer hate you. There has to be more to the story there. He and Tilman probably got into a pissing match or something. Can't imagine our AD at the time (Hunter Yurachek) did anything to him.
last year was a strange year, especially for UH because of the all the game cancellations. So did the fanbase expect UH to beat Texas Tech?
My understanding is that Herman wouldn't talk to anyone at UH about it right after it happened and later denied that he did it when finally he did respond. The fact is that he left UH, and the attitude that the Regents and Administration took from it was that Herman felt he was too good for UH and they were not beneath them. That speaks to the size of his ego. So while anything is possible (UH has some decision makers that would make a deal with the devil to win at football), it is very unlikely that UH would want Herman back, and very unlikely that Herman would suck up his pride enough to comeback. It seems that he has pivoted to the NFL anyway, and that is more inline with his real value system. In college Herman has to pretend like he gives a **** about his players, in the NFL it is everyone for themselves. Herman is very smart and capable of doing some great things because of his intelligence, ego and complete lack of self doubt.... but he just doesn't really give a **** about people.
The primary problem is that Tune sucks and he's been our QB for the entirety of Holgo's tenure and even half a season prior. It's on Dana to bring in a transfer who can actually throw the ball more than 5 yards down field, especially after 18 games worth of data to look at. We have 6 (SIX!) QBs on the roster and we're somehow in this spot. It makes no sense. There's no reason we shouldn't beat Tech any given year, but there's no excuse for getting outscored 31-0 in the second half.
