Congrats to Iowa State's former OC Tom Herman on his National Championship and now his new head coaching job at Houston! Cyclone Nation loves you!!!
Congrats Tom Herman!
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No, they said he's been pulling double duty ever since he accepted the job. Spending the majority of his days working on the Ohio State game plan for last night and a couple hours a day working on Houston coaching duties.
That must of changed after the Sugar Bowl because during that have they said it was his final game with OSU.
I used to think that as well, and then he left and the offense never improved. Next year will be different though!
Yeah, any OC will be successful with the quality of the offensive line at OSU. There is a reason the RB ran wild and the QB had all day.
This was a poor job of explaining by ESPN, because I remember hearing it during the Sugar Bowl as well.
They said something along the lines that "He is done at Ohio State after tonight and will be making his way to Houston to become the new head coach, unless they go to the National Championship."
They didn't put much emphasis on if they beat Alabama, probably because no one expected them to.
I said this last year when a similar topic about Tom came up. Obviously, you can screw things up if you are a terrible coach, but OSU has guys that just flat out make plays. There wasn't anything special about the design of the offense, block, hit the holes, throw the ball a mile accurately and if no one is open, go ahead and run for 20 yards.
Our offensive woes lie deeply in our offensive lines inability to push the defense out of the way and sustain blocks. We definitely don't have what OSU has as far as talent goes, but I think a lot of people would be surprised how much better we would be with just a few improvements on the offensive line.
So how many former ISU coaches won a National Championship now?
McCarney @ Florida w/ Meyer
Gene Cheesesick @ Auburn
Tom Herman @ OSU w/ Meyer
Anyone else? Didn't Mack Brown, Jimmy Johnson, and Pete Carroll spend time at ISU?
McCarney @ Florida w/ Meyer
Gene Cheesesick @ Auburn
Tom Herman @ OSU w/ Meyer
Anyone else? Didn't Mack Brown, Jimmy Johnson, and Pete Carroll spend time at ISU?
Herman made a brilliant move in his career, going to work for one of the best minds in CFB history. Now that he's on his own, will be interesting to see how he does.
Yeah all three of those guys were in Ames at one time.
I wonder if we could have a charity challenge where all those coaches would come back to coach at ISU for 4 years to get ISU on the map! One can dream can't they!
Yes. Johnny Majors. HC here, HC for Pitt.
Also Earl Bruce won 4 Big Ten titles after he left here.