Tom Herman Fired as Texas Longhorns Coach

Texas has parted ways with Tom Herman after four seasons.

Tom Herman is no longer the head coach of the Texas Longhorns.

After Herman reportedly wanted out of Texas, despite his relatively successful tenure, the University of Texas has announced within the last 15 minutes that Herman and his staff have been fired.

Here is the official statement from The University of Texas at Austin:

"With our football season coming to a close, our vice president and athletics director, Chris Del Conte, has evaluated the UT program’s strengths and weaknesses and where the program is relative to our goals. While we have made measured progress during the past several years under Tom Herman’s leadership, Chris has recommended to the university president, Jay Hartzell, that UT make a coaching change to get us on track to achieving our ambitious goals. President Hartzell and the chair of our Board of Regents, Kevin Eltife, concur with this recommendation and have approved the change. We thank Coach Herman for his service and dedication to our student-athletes, our program and our university."

Herman was the offensive coordinator for the Buckeyes during their most recent national championship run back in 2014. He left Ohio State and Urban Meyer to be the head man at Houston, where his success vaulted him into a job with the Texas Longhorns.

Herman went 32-18 at Texas with four bowl victories in four seasons. But, Texas lost seven times to unranked teams when they were ranked in the AP Poll since Tom Herman was hired in 2017. That is tied for the most in FBS over that span.

Meanwhile, there are multiple unconfirmed reports that Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian will take over for Herman.

A couple weeks ago, according to Gene Sapakoff of the Charleston Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, Tom Herman pretty seriously wanted out of Austin, Texas. Here's what Sapakoff told ESPN's Paul Finebaum recently.

"I'm not gonna say he begged for the job, but my sources say he was quite interested." --@Sapakoff reports that before the Gamecocks hired Shane Beamer, Tom Herman was pushing himself for the job. pic.twitter.com/kAe2o02Mp9

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) December 15, 2020

If there is any truth to the matter, perhaps its best for the two to part ways.

Meanwhile, Max Olsen from The Athletic says the move to fire the entire staff will cost Texas roughly $25 million.

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