CC: Tom Herman to be named Houston Head Coach

BREAKING #OhioState OC Tom Herman is expected to become the new head coach at #Houston, source told @FoxSports.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 15, 2014

It won't affect them.  They'll hire some grad assisstant from Tulsa and he'll win the Broyles award next year.

Urban Meyer is on the phone with Al Borges as we speak.

Hah! Progress by anothers' regression. The best way to do it!!

Can we also get rid of their 2nd and 3rd string OC's, who are bound to become Broyles candidates the moment they step onto the sideline?

The Pitt job should become available in 7 days.

Someone ELSE, right???

P5 schools are gunshy about hiring coordinators anymore. Head coaching experience is now being demanded, even by schools like Oregon State and Pitt.

It shows what sort of reach Herman is/was for Michigan.

Look at Narduzzi - not a sniff by anyone this year.  Wisconsin was open, Nebraska was open - not a sniff.  Was offerred UConn, and a candidate but not offerred at Louisville a year ago.  Herman has done far less - he had 5 years of coordinating away from  Urban of which only 1 was good (2nd year at Rice)/  All 3 years at ISU were uninspiring.  Other "offensive bright minds" like a Mike Leach went to a school no better than ISU (Texas Tech) and lit up the conference on offense so "it's just ISU" is not an excuse.  Wilson at Indiana can create offense with similar players as ISU.

Then suddenly he goes to Urban and becomes a genius.  The same genius that Adazzio supposedly had because he too (wait for it) worked for Urban.

And in 2 years whoever is the next OC for Urban will be a genius and get another HC job.  People need to see there is a common theme called Urban Meyer here.  Tha doesn't mean all his OCs are idiots or average - or even that Herman is not the great next thing (who knows?)  but if you have 5 OCs under Urban in a decade I am sure it is no different than any other bell curve.  They all just look better all along the curve due to the HC.

in say, fivr years, after Meyer decides to actually retire for good or become the next AD in Columbus and then hires Herman.

Not so much concerned that Herman's absence will impact their gameplanning and play-calling as his recruiting reach in Texas and plucking Barrett out of the state even while he was being recruited by Texas. I suppose the Buckeyes have backup recruiting experts in Texas, but this to me seems the larger impact of Herman's departure. That and the future development of their three star qbs next season, an embarrassment of riches, Ohio will have to sort out.

The AAC (the old Big East) has been pretty much a minor league for Power 5 schools to hire coaches. Look at the list of guys that have been swiped from that conference in the the past 5 or so years:

West Virginia: Rich Rodriguez (2007)
Pittsburgh: Todd Graham (2011); Paul Chryst (2014)
Syracuse: Doug Marrone (2012)
Rutgers: Greg Schiano (2011)
Louisville: Bobby Petrino 1.0 (2006 pre-Arkansas version), Charlie Strong (2013)
Temple: Al Golden (2010); Steve Addazio (2012)
Connecticut: Randy Edsall (2010)
Cincinnati: Mark Dantonio (2006), Brian Kelly (2009), Butch Jones (2012)
South Florida: Coaching careers go to die here.
Houston: Art Briles (2007), Kevin Sumlin (2011)
Tulsa: Todd Graham (2010)

Including Houston and Tulsa on this list is a little bit of a stretch as they were in Conference USA at the time these coaches were hired and moved to the AAC last year.

And now the current crop of AAC coaches includes some of the hot coordinators of the last couple years and a handful of grizzled veteran coaches:

Chad Morris - SMU
Tom Herman - Houston
Justin Fuente - Memphis
Bob Diaco - Connecticut
Bobby Petrino 2.0 - Louisville
Tommy Tuberville - Cincinnati
George O'Leary - UCF

Don't count on it.  Meyer has had plenty of different OC's over the years, and his offense has always put up points.