Texas football officially names Tom Herman head coach

The University of Texas has named former Houston Cougars head coach Tom Herman to the same position of the Texas Longhorns football team.

With the Texas Longhorns losing to the TCU Horned Frogs on Saturday evening to fall to 5-7 on the season, the University of Texas decided to fire head coach Charlie Strong after three seasons on the job.

The University of Texas wasted no time and hired the only guy the boosters wanted in Houston Cougars head coach Tom Herman. Herman was named the next head coach of Texas football on Saturday. He will have his introductory press conference in Austin on Sunday.

Herman had been the head coach of Houston football for the last two seasons in the American Athletic Conference. Houston won the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl at the end of the 2015 college football season as the Group of 5 qualifier. The Cougars defeated two Power 5 teams of name in 2016: the Oklahoma Sooners and the Louisville Cardinals.

Texas needed to act fast, as the LSU Tigers were also in the mix to land Herman as their next head coach. LSU opted to remove the interim tag and make Ed Orgeron its full-time head coach in 2017. The Tigers went 5-2 in the seven games under Orgeron.

Hiring Herman is the slam-dunk candidate that Texas football craved once things soured in Austin under Strong. Strong finished with the worst record in Texas football history in three years. He tried to keep up with the Air Raid offenses prevalent in the Big 12. However, that proved costly to the defensive side of the ball that Strong specialized in.

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Herman was the former offensive coordinator for Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes. It was only a matter of time before he landed a major Power 5 gig. Texas got its guy in Herman.