I posted on another thread that I think the bloom is off of Herman's rose. I think that even more today considering he will most likely lose to Louisville. So the coach that everyone thought would write his own ticket to tu, ND, Oregon, USC, LSU, or wherever he wanted to go is now facing a 9-3 season. That's not a bad season, heck we'd have traded a kidney or the naming rights to our first born for mulitple 9-3 seasons in the 00's, but Herman is most likely going to compile a 9-3 or possibly an 8-4 season playing the following teams: OU, Lamar, Cincinnati, TxSt, Connecticut, Navy, Tulsa, SMU, UCF, Tulane, Louisville, and Memphis.
Houston has so much more talent than Navy and SMU that the coogs should have been able to win on autopilot. So did they lose because they got out coached or did they lose because the kids mailed it in since their coach is gone at the end of the season? Either reason should be enough to give major CFB programs pause, but especially the logic that says his team has mailed it in. Three weeks ago Houston was on everyone's list to make the CFB playoffs or be team 5 or 6. If you as a coach cannot rally 100 players (and 85 are on scholarship) to play for the national championship with arguably the easiest path of any team, then I cannot see giving that person the reins at a major program. Sure players at Bama, tOSU, maybe even Clemson, and a couple of others realize that they will have another shot at the playoffs and winning a national championship. Does anyone honestly think UofH will ever break the top 5 again in the next 10-20 years? If you cannot get your players to play for a once in a lifetime opportunity, how in the ____ are you going to get a bunch of prima donna 4/5*'s to play for each other!!! Therefore, I think he may already have a deal locked up some place, but I bet the authors are looking for an out clause because they have to be getting nervous.
