Written by Herman. Dude is a savage.

[01Canes]

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[Crimpy]

My favorite part of the article:

People make a big deal about the system you run. But I've learned though the years that your system has to marry your talent. One of my proudest seasons is when we went 12-0 in my first year at Ohio State in 2012. Philosophically, we wanted to be balanced. But we couldn't throw the ball. We had a good line, a beast at tailback in Carlos Hyde and a freak at quarterback in Braxton Miller. It was one of my proudest achievements in coaching. We didn't try to fit a square peg in a round hole. And that's how we're going to approach stuff at Houston. You start with a vision of, "Here's who we are. Here's our beliefs. Here's how we play." What our vision may be is going to be entirely dependent on the players we have.

We need that philosophy around here. No more fattening up players to fit the scheme, at the cost of their athleticism.

 

[cowboycane]

My favorite part of the article:

People make a big deal about the system you run. But I've learned though the years that your system has to marry your talent. One of my proudest seasons is when we went 12-0 in my first year at Ohio State in 2012. Philosophically, we wanted to be balanced. But we couldn't throw the ball. We had a good line, a beast at tailback in Carlos Hyde and a freak at quarterback in Braxton Miller. It was one of my proudest achievements in coaching. We didn't try to fit a square peg in a round hole. And that's how we're going to approach stuff at Houston. You start with a vision of, "Here's who we are. Here's our beliefs. Here's how we play." What our vision may be is going to be entirely dependent on the players we have.

We need that philosophy around here.

"Players, not plays."

 

[RBhurricane87]

"People make a big deal about the system you run. But I've learned though the years that your system has to marry your talent."

THIS GUY GETS IT

 

[KevinCaneFace]

Herman is the next dominate coach. Urban Meyer type of guy who has won everywhere he's been.

 

[2FNFST4U]

His buyout eliminates him if we can't afford or won't buy out Golden they aren't coughing up 2.4 million to buyout a HC to come here

 

[9oh4Cane]

He hasn't done anything yet?

What did Butch do before Miami? No HC experience, but coached under JJ.
Herman before Miami--HC experience, OC for Meyer...

Seriously, Lil Homey? LOL

Coaching under JJ and Urban are not the same.

****, Lil Homey!

Never said it was the same, but Meyer is arguably the best in the business right now next to Saban. I'd venture to say he was mentored properly at OSU, but just my opinion..

McElwain worked under Saban.................went to Colorado State........Kicked ***......then UF went and got him.

Again, Herman has not done sh*t. I am not saying he isn't bright.....he needs to show something as a head coach.

He's been successful everywhere he's been. He has Houston 5-0 and ranked 24th. If the start of his HC career is any indication, then I'd say he'll be pretty **** successful as a HC. Barring a total collapse this season by Houston, I'd take this guy 10/10 times.

1. Herman
2. Butch

 

[The Franchise]

Has Herman ever had success offensively with a concrete-footed QB? Ward is an insane athlete, JT Barrett was an excellent runner as was Braxton Miller. Cardale Jones isn't a burner, but he's a good powerful runner who did a lot of damage with his feet in last year's championship run.

I don't believe he's worked with one who isn't a threat at all with their legs in the last 8 years.

During his two-year stint as the OC at Rice from 2007-2008, he improved their total offense ranking from 51st in '07 to 10th in '08. But Chase Clement, who threw for over 4,000 yards as a senior in '08, also ran for over 700 yards and was a 4.6 guy.

As the OC at Iowa State, he improved their Offensive S&P+ rank from 105th in '08 (before he arrived) to 42nd in '09 (his first year on the job) with Austen Arnaud at QB. Arnaud was a JAG who never averaged more than 4 YPC in a season and wasn't necessarily a great runner or athlete, but he wasn't completely immobile either. Their QBs in 2011 (Barnett and Jantz) were complete dumpster fires and their offense regressed. But Urban was smart enough to realize Herman was a great young coach in a disastrous situation talent-wise at ISU, so he didn't hesitate to bring him to OSU at the beginning of his tenure and the rest was history.

I'd imagine he'd exclusively recruit dual-threat QBs and adapt his offense to his personnel for the first year or two to cater to Kaaya's strengths.

People make a big deal about the system you run. But I've learned though the years that your system has to marry your talent. One of my proudest seasons is when we went 12-0 in my first year at Ohio State in 2012. Philosophically, we wanted to be balanced. But we couldn't throw the ball. We had a good line, a beast at tailback in Carlos Hyde and a freak at quarterback in Braxton Miller. It was one of my proudest achievements in coaching. We didn't try to fit a square peg in a round hole. And that's how we're going to approach stuff at Houston. You start with a vision of, "Here's who we are. Here's our beliefs. Here's how we play." What our vision may be is going to be entirely dependent on the players we have.

Good stuff, big man.

My only concern with a guy who has done nothing but run that spread option with QBs who are a running threat is that he might struggle with a QB like Kaaya. Look at Chip Kelly in the NFL with QBs who don't or can't run. His offenses look pretty bad.

I've also seen quite a few college teams struggle with that system when they don't have a running threat at QB. Just look at how bad UF's offense got when Brantley had to play QB.

 

[The Franchise]

His buyout eliminates him if we can't afford or won't buy out Golden they aren't coughing up 2.4 million to buyout a HC to come here

That's chump change. If UM want to be a player it will have to fork out money. Otherwise, they should just keep Folden and put the program to sleep. Don't fire Folden and then try to put things to together with duct tape.

 

[01Canes]

Has Herman ever had success offensively with a concrete-footed QB? Ward is an insane athlete, JT Barrett was an excellent runner as was Braxton Miller. Cardale Jones isn't a burner, but he's a good powerful runner who did a lot of damage with his feet in last year's championship run.

I don't believe he's worked with one who isn't a threat at all with their legs in the last 8 years.

During his two-year stint as the OC at Rice from 2007-2008, he improved their total offense ranking from 51st in '07 to 10th in '08. But Chase Clement, who threw for over 4,000 yards as a senior in '08, also ran for over 700 yards and was a 4.6 guy.

As the OC at Iowa State, he improved their Offensive S&P+ rank from 105th in '08 (before he arrived) to 42nd in '09 (his first year on the job) with Austen Arnaud at QB. Arnaud was a JAG who never averaged more than 4 YPC in a season and wasn't necessarily a great runner or athlete, but he wasn't completely immobile either. Their QBs in 2011 (Barnett and Jantz) were complete dumpster fires and their offense regressed. But Urban was smart enough to realize Herman was a great young coach in a disastrous situation talent-wise at ISU, so he didn't hesitate to bring him to OSU at the beginning of his tenure and the rest was history.

I'd imagine he'd exclusively recruit dual-threat QBs and adapt his offense to his personnel for the first year or two to cater to Kaaya's strengths.

People make a big deal about the system you run. But I've learned though the years that your system has to marry your talent. One of my proudest seasons is when we went 12-0 in my first year at Ohio State in 2012. Philosophically, we wanted to be balanced. But we couldn't throw the ball. We had a good line, a beast at tailback in Carlos Hyde and a freak at quarterback in Braxton Miller. It was one of my proudest achievements in coaching. We didn't try to fit a square peg in a round hole. And that's how we're going to approach stuff at Houston. You start with a vision of, "Here's who we are. Here's our beliefs. Here's how we play." What our vision may be is going to be entirely dependent on the players we have.

Good stuff, big man.

My only concern with a guy who has done nothing but run that spread option with QBs who are a running threat is that he might struggle with a QB like Kaaya. Look at Chip Kelly in the NFL with QBs who don't or can't run. His offenses look pretty bad.

I've also seen quite a few college teams struggle with that system when they don't have a running threat at QB. Just look at how bad UF's offense got when Brantley had to play QB.

That's a valid concern. I'm encouraged by Herman's approach of adapting his offense to his personnel. But while he's gone from wanting to have a balanced unit to running an extremely run-heavy offense when OSU had Miller and Hyde, he hasn't been in a situation where he's coached a non-running threat at QB.

Thought it was interesting that he's recruited a couple pro-style QBs to Houston in his first year. They were after in-state QB Dillon Sterling-Cole (ASU commit who runs 4.84) and have landed a verbal from three-star pro-style QB Bowman Sells. Hard to gauge much of anything from that, but it might show that he isn't necessarily dead set on dual-threat QBs running his offense.

 

[cane since birth]

Kenny guiton wasnt that mobile and tgey switched their system to fit him and he went nuts on teams, the guy makes a system with what he has not force it on players that dont fit it, this guy is a must get

 

[arizonacane]

Houston will be in the Big 12 soon. Herman ain't coming to Miami.

 

[MIATL]

Houston will be in the Big 12 soon. Herman ain't coming to Miami.

No chance that happens, IMO!

Texas is already dealing with Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, and Texas A&M in Power 5 conferences ... They won't allow another Texas school in that conference.

If the Big 12 expands, they're grabbing Boise State and Cincinnati or UCF.

****, I think they'd even take Memphis and UConn before they'd take Houston ...

 

[01Canes]

Kenny guiton wasnt that mobile and tgey switched their system to fit him and he went nuts on teams, the guy makes a system with what he has not force it on players that dont fit it, this guy is a must get

That's a great point and I actually forgot all about Guiton. He was a 4.78 guy who did have some success on the ground, but did plenty of damage with his arm when he had to start a few games in Braxton Miller's absence in 2013. OSU's reserve QBs came in and performed at very high levels in '13 and '14 while Herman was the QB coach, co-OC, and playcaller there. That's a pretty big feather in his cap.

Miller pass attempts per game in '13 (excludiing SDSU game in which he was injured early): 23
Guiton's pass attempts per game (2 starts and most of SDSU game): 31.3

Interestingly enough, Guiton's a part of Herman's staff at Houston as a graduate assistant.

 

[F-MarioCristobal]

He mentions the strength coach as a foundation of the program and that is 100% accurate. Please come to Miami and get us someone new.

 

[Sonny Long]

What did Butch do before Miami? No HC experience, but coached under JJ.
Herman before Miami--HC experience, OC for Meyer...

Seriously, Lil Homey? LOL

Coaching under JJ and Urban are not the same.

****, Lil Homey!

Never said it was the same, but Meyer is arguably the best in the business right now next to Saban. I'd venture to say he was mentored properly at OSU, but just my opinion..

McElwain worked under Saban.................went to Colorado State........Kicked ***......then UF went and got him.

Again, Herman has not done sh*t. I am not saying he isn't bright.....he needs to show something as a head coach.

He's been successful everywhere he's been. He has Houston 5-0 and ranked 24th. If the start of his HC career is any indication, then I'd say he'll be pretty **** successful as a HC. Barring a total collapse this season by Houston, I'd take this guy 10/10 times.

1. Herman
2. Butch

5 games........ You are on Drugs

Herman is not coming to Miami. We can do better.

 

[Sonny Long]

Herman is the next dominate coach. Urban Meyer type of guy who has won everywhere he's been.

He's won 5 games.....5, Beeeyatch!

Herman hasn't done Sh*t!

 

[9oh4Cane]

Seriously, Lil Homey? LOL

Coaching under JJ and Urban are not the same.

****, Lil Homey!

Never said it was the same, but Meyer is arguably the best in the business right now next to Saban. I'd venture to say he was mentored properly at OSU, but just my opinion..

McElwain worked under Saban.................went to Colorado State........Kicked ***......then UF went and got him.

Again, Herman has not done sh*t. I am not saying he isn't bright.....he needs to show something as a head coach.

He's been successful everywhere he's been. He has Houston 5-0 and ranked 24th. If the start of his HC career is any indication, then I'd say he'll be pretty **** successful as a HC. Barring a total collapse this season by Houston, I'd take this guy 10/10 times.

1. Herman
2. Butch

5 games........ You are on Drugs

Herman is not coming to Miami. We can do better.

Please explain. Please give me a viable candidate that we can afford (however much we are willing to pay)

 

[pimpcane1]

If Herman gets offered by USC that is probably where he will be going, both he and his wife are from SoCal.

 

[Gru]

His buyout eliminates him if we can't afford or won't buy out Golden they aren't coughing up 2.4 million to buyout a HC to come here

might as well eliminate everybody that's any good then. 2.4 million is nothing. Florida paid 7 million for McElwain who wasn't even a big name at the time.