Love all those... Sark May be the best option honestly. Wouldn’t hate Hugh Freeze either. Sticky from a results standpoint he’s one of the best coaches in college football
Yep exactly. Getting to work for Pete Carroll, and Nick Saban has to have done something for you. He’d probably still be at USC if not for his personal problems
You hit the nail on the head about the fanbase needing to be patient. Not sure where Texas ranks in the whiny "I want it now!" department, but I bet it's high.
I don’t think this is a “I want it now” situation Texas hasnt been good for most of the last decade, and although Charlie takes a lot of heat for the “cake is already baked” comment as it turns out. He wasn’t wrong. The sugar bowl was the high point of Herman’s tenure. Most of that team was led by Jr’s and SR’s that were recruited by Strong. Now that set up a great opportunity for Herman to back fill that and really start to build something. As those players moved out the younger players started stepping in and the talent level has dropped off. I think if there was more talent on this roster Herman might get the benefit of the doubt the reality is though the further away we get from that sugar bowl the more it looks like Herman has a solid ground laid for him and took advantage of it rather than the start of something here. Which may be the story of Herman’s coaching career honestly. Lands himself in to some great situations.
Never say no place ever with coaches. I agree it’s likely he never comes back at this point, but coaches always find their way back to the sidelines it seems
Sark and art Briles are two different stories. Sark had a drinking problem, and got treatment. Briles was involved in covering up, paying off and in some cases threatening sexual assault victims of football players. Not exactly in the same category. And he’s 65 years old. I’m not sure you take the heat that hire would get for a 3-4 year fix.
Given the choice between Briles and a Brian Kelly, Franklin or Fickell type, I'd go with Briles any day of the week because of the immediate TX HS relationships. Kelly is a bit prickly and it could take some time for TX coaches to warm up to him.
We are going to be sorry if they hire Briles.
Baylor’s own independent repor says “Football coaches and staff choose not to report incidents of assault and misconduct” weather Briles was directly involved in that only he knows but as the HC he’s responsible for the football program
I wanted briles when Mack resigned. I thought it made perfect sense. I liked briles offenses more mike leaches offense as they actually used the RB. But of course we made a bad hire at AD then so on.
Go read the report. Briles was not made the scapegoat. He’s the head football coach he’s responsible. Just like if some booster is handing recruits cars. The head football coach is responsible. One of Rick Pitno’s assistants was buying players hookers. Pitno is responsible. Being the coach of a major program comes with a lot of perks, but it also means your the guy that gets the blame it things go sideways.
Briles would of been a home run hire 7-8 years ago. Now? Not sure we could say 100% what we’d get and whatever we did get would be short term. Much like with Meyer you’d need some kind of succession plan.(and he’d want his son to be that plan)
