Posted on 02/02/2017 5:51:20 AM PST by C19fan
Honeymoons at the University of Texas are equal in length to the use of fax machines on National Signing Day.
Tom Herman is well into his marriage as the Longhorns coach and the glow from his hiring has faded. That’s not to say that the excitement won’t return – after all, he has yet to coach a down for UT – but there are indications the love affair needs some rekindling.
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I’m not. They’ve had some really crappy seasons the past few years.
Roh-Roh. Herman is supposed to be some sort of recruiting wunderkind.
According to the article he didn’t get any of the top 10 players in the Lonestar State.
I don’t know Herman well. But the prior UT head coach was awful.
Herman’s only on the job a few weeks. He hardly could have been expected to get a better class than this.
I have always opposed ‘BIG’ college sports. College sports should be for the entertainment and exercise of the students as a break from scholastic endeavors. It should NOT be a cash cow from well to do alumnus.
College should be about education for the greater good of the country. Not a sport gambling medium or a Marxism training camp (the other thing I hate about colleges in America today)
Professional Sports need to recruit, mostly out of high school. College is for education
Strong only had 7 commits. He is leaving lots of underclass men in place as starters. So it wasn’t like there was certainty of either who was going to be coaching and whether there would be playing time
And then again, maybe PeeWee isn’t all he’s made out to be
They look to have a pretty soft schedule in 2017. 7 easy wins, 3 sure losses, and a couple that could go either way. Fans should expect an 8-4 season.
I think they had only 16 signees, which is a number that goes up and down every year based on scholarships available. Smaller classes tend to get ranked lower.
Ohio State cleaned up in Texas. Five four and five star rated kids are heading TO Columbus.
I think Tom Herman should have accomplished more at UH before moving to the big leagues at UT. After a great start last year, UH had a pretty mediocre year. I don’t know that he all that he is cracked up to be. I think the bar has been set a bit too high for him.
Texas ruins the Big 12, runs off some legendary programs, and now the Big 10 and SEC recruit Texas better than Texas schools do. Brilliant.
Charlie pulled some decent classes. Surprised Herman didn’t do better this year but he did come in late, and switched a couple commits late in the process. I expect him to do better next year.
My Sooners did great!
Anyone upset with Herman’s results is an idiot. How well did University of Houston rank in recruiting ratings while he was there? Did it stop them from being a Top 25 program? And how well did those Top 10 recruiting classes serve Mack Brown in his last years, or Charlie Strong thereafter?
You can’t expect everything to return to dominance in three months. Give him the same three years Charlie Strong got.
And why not when you get into the Final Four without even winning your conference? Hope you enjoy getting stomped by Clemson.
Higher education? They can’t even do simple math! The Big 10 has 14 teams and the Big 12 has 10 teams. They can’t do geography either when you have a Pacific conference in Colorado and an Atlantic conference in Indiana.
But colleges will forever play big-time athletics because it makes money for far more than the athletic department. As the old saying goes, tell me the last time you got 70,000 people to show up to watch a science class.
All the obamas sons that play college sports will get useful degrees in community organizer..... sociology and jail house law.
This needs to be regulated so that any player must have Bs or better in REAL classes. Not BS ones.
I haven't paid specific attention to Texas recruits, but that is sadly the truth about a great majority of Division I college basketball and football players these days. Even AFTER their time at the university is done. I would say exceptions would be maybe the Ivy League, the military academies, Stanford, BYU, Northwestern, Duke, and Vanderbilt.
Other than sports teams, I see little reason to have colleges and universities these days. They appear to be little more than mini North Koreas... a curriculum of totalitarianism and the primary “major” being Discontent and Anarchy. Sending many “graduates” unprepared for the real world, while thousand$ in debt. Taught not how to think, but what to think. Hook’em Horns!
“They can’t speak intelligible English”
Speedy Chimps, and immovable Gorillas ?
Ohio State was the youngest team in Division 1 football last year and they made it to the football playoff.
Let’s see what they can do with a full season of experience behind them.
Jealous much?
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