Huge difference heft Rice for a promotion into the BCS. He leaves an opportunity to be Big 12's hot OC next year to what, coach a running quarterback in someone else's offense?
There are way better OC positions that are going to open this season. If Herman wants to leave, he'll take one of those, or maybe a head coaching gig. But think, people, think: if you were a vice president in charge of strategy, why would you take an internship?
Urban Meyer is a great coach, but he's not exactly a coach's cradle. This isn't a good opportunity (if, in fact, it exists.)
Mack Brown and Stoops have both won national titles, though.
That pretty much proves my point. He has multiple titles and a pretty solid 4-0 mark in BCS games.I don't have any evidence to back it up, but I'm going out on a limb when I assert that the majority of coaches who have national championships under their belt "only" have 1. It's not like there's a whole lot of them out there.
Wow, you're just full of bad comparisons and misinformed judgments today.
Wow, you're just full of bad comparisons and misinformed judgments today.
What a completely factual critique on your part!
So Loeffler isn't the OC at Temple? There aren't potential open OC positions at good programs? ISU to Rice wasn't a promotion?
Which one of these comparative judgments are misinformed? I'd love to be corrected.
People. He's the OC of a school that's going to score like a pinball machine in arguably the best conference with a young clan of weapons.
Scot Loeffler was QB coach for Meyer a few years back, and he translated that into an OC position.
At Temple.
No way Herman leaves to be a peon coach in a non-quarterback league for a shattered program led by a guy with an anxiety disorder.
The position is a great opportunity for someone. Just not him, and certainly not now. If he was offered and took that position, I'd be glad, because it would make me realize that he's too stupid to coach in this business (he isn't, obviously!) and I'd prefer not to have someone with brain damage running our shiny new offense next year.
You have my personal guarantee that this will not happen. Redeemable at any Wal-Mart. Some restrictions apply.
Look at how many guys from Urban's Florida staff got head coaching jobs. If Ohio St dominates the B10 like I expect they will, Herman should have no problem moving up quickly. When is the last time an ISU assistant was hired for a head coaching job? Florida had three assistants get HC jobs in Meyer's last two years at Florida alone.
He was talking relationship wise, not accomplishments. Urban Meyer probably isn't very well liked around the coaching world.
Look at how many guys from Urban's Florida staff got head coaching jobs. If Ohio St dominates the B10 like I expect they will, Herman should have no problem moving up quickly. When is the last time an ISU assistant was hired for a head coaching job? Florida had three assistants get HC jobs in Meyer's last two years at Florida alone.
I hadn't realized there was talk of Tom Herman going to Ohio State as a QB coach.
How big of a loss would this be? Frankly I don't think our offenses have been all that dynamic, certainly not as much as I would have expected three years ago.
That said, by now they've had a chance to get their own recruits in the system and some of those key pieces (Barnett, especially) are maturing into their roles. I could easily see an explosion next year.
And of course, any lack of continuity always hurts.
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I would hate to lose Herman right now with the potential that our offense has going into next year. It would also kill program continuity AGAIN, and even though I think our overall talent will be higher next year there would be the learning curve all over again. Right now we have a lot of young guys on offense who have a year of significant playing time under their belts and they looked like the light was turning on at the end of the year.
QFT.
I fully understand and accept that if we are successful CTH will move on to greener pastures. However, for the sake of our program we need a few more years to get the system to a point where it's on auto-pilot.
Part of the reason Iowa has been so successful is that KOK and Parker have been there for so long they all know exactly what their schemes are going to be.