Feeling Incredibly Grateful We Have Sark in Charge. How Bad would the Horns be right now if Tom Herman was still Head Coach?

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Thinking about how incredible Sark has been with instilling his culture, raising the bar on caliber of recruiting and attracting the right type of players (minus a few exceptions) through the portal.  Just as important, how much the longhorns clearly want to play for Sark and stay with the Longhorns, despite the temptation to leave for more money.  When other teams like OU and A&M are losing 20-30% of their roster to the portal, Texas retains virtually all their talent.  Only the players who are unlikely to see playing time decide to bolt.  Every year, the bar keeps rising and the depth at each position keeps getting stronger.   Each year, they work to learn from the prior year, push to get better at every position (including the coaches) in the spirit of never being satisfied with where they're at.  That's leadership at its finest by Sark, his staff and the administration.  

It made me think about the unhealthy, arrogant, incredibly disrespectful toxic culture Tom Herman had created on the 40 acres.   Seems like those years were forever ago.  So glad to have CDC as our AD, emphasizing mature, high character, high performing leadership, building a sustaining culture that thrives in this era of NIL and the portal.  Think about what things would be like in 2025 if Tom Herman were in charge of the Texas Longhorns right now, lol.  There are 1000 reasons I'm grateful for Sark being in charge of our Longhorn Football Team.  At least one of those 1000 reasons is the exact opposite approach Sark has taken (in contrast to Herman) to leading and instilling healthy high-performing 'one team' culture on the 40 acres that attracts, develops and motivates the very best and they clearly all love player for each other.  The best players in the country want to come to Texas and be a part of something real that's only getting better by the year.  Way to go Sark!!!!  Keep it Up.  So glad that Tom Herman is a distant memory.  Hook Em!!   

A Few Reminders of the Tom Herman Era.  This is only a small sample of reminders for how bad things were just 6 years ago.............

Pee Charts are the reflection of player commitment https://nypost.com/2017/04/12/if-you-have-orange-pee-at-texas-youre-a-bad-teammate/

The idiotic narcissism by Herman refusing to acknowledge Michael Dickson by name.  Only referred to him as 'punter'.  MD was the f'ing MVP of our bowl game and one of the only NFL caliber players on our team, we were so flipping bad.  https://www.sportingnews.com/au/nfl/news/michael-dickson-texas-punter-nfl-draft-2018-australia/zwomxnvc7vhp1x4g3r389180v 

In an effort to toughen up the Horns after Charlie Strong, Tom Herman took the demeaning approach of daily / weekly 'battles' with winners getting treated to steaks and off-campus plush housing while losers were stuck eating runny eggs and cold pancakes out of a trash can.... https://sports.yahoo.com/tom-herman-using-bacon-embarrassment-motivate-players-worst-three-year-stretch-texas-history-231834366.html

The entire debacle with the 'Eyes of Texas' and how it divided the locker room.  https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/behind-the-scenes-of-uts-the-eyes-of-texas-controversy/

Tom Herman mocking Drew Locke and Missouri in the 2017 Texas Bowl win.  Looked like a 6th grade moron on the sideline.  Embarrassing.  https://sports.yahoo.com/tom-herman-appears-mock-missouri-qb-drew-lock-texas-bowl-win-063936691.html

Every game Tom Herman personally lost for the Longhorns due to poor game time decisions (going for it on 4th and long rather than kicking the obvious field goal, etc.)..... Rather than demonstrating humility and a commitment to get better, he always blamed 'THE F'ING BINDER'.  It was so nauseating to hear Herman talk about the Binder at press conferences. https://www.burntorangenation.com/2020/11/27/21722790/texas-longhorns-20-iowa-state-cyclones-23-fire-tom-herman-sam-ehlinger 

Finally and potentially most embarrassing of all, after Sark's first season with the Horns, the talent is so under-developed over the prior 4 seasons with a reputation across the NFL for being 'soft' and 'undisciplined' during the Tom Herman (and Charlie Strong) years, that the Horns have ZERO players taken in the 2022 NFL Draft.  https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10034604-texas-has-0-players-selected-in-2022-nfl-draft-4th-time-since-2014-having-1-or-fewer

 

Edited April 22 by Bevo92