Report says LSU is closing in on Tom Herman as next head coach
Two sources have told Horns Digest’s Chip Brown that LSU is closing in on hiring Houston coach Tom Herman as its next coach.
Brown covers the Texas Longhorns, LSU’s biggest competition for Herman’s services if they decide to part with coach Charlie Strong.
LSU athletic director Joe Alleva declined comment on the report according to The Advocate’s Ross Dellenger.
#LSU AD Joe Alleva declined comment to The Advocate when asked about this report "and any other report that's out there." https://t.co/XQXq6tbC8o
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 25, 2016
Brown reports that Herman has an offer from LSU, but is waiting to accept until he knows what will happen in Austin. It was reported Sunday that Strong had been fired, but UT athletic director Mike Perrin denied that any decision would be made prior to the Texas-TCU game Friday.
If Chip Brown's report about Tom Herman and LSU is accurate this is the greatest rebuke of UT in a long long time https://t.co/sNnVtyuq1F
— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) November 25, 2016
Multiple recent reports said the Tigers were targeting FSU coach Jimbo Fisher. At his weekly radio show, Fisher told Seminoles fans to “be patient” in regards to the rumors about his future.
The Advertiser reports that talks stalled with Fisher on Wednesday, and members of the Tiger Athletic Foundation met with Herman in Houston on Thursday:
“There was a group meet with Herman today in Houston,” a TAF member said Thursday. “This is moving in Herman’s direction.”
Reports suggested that interim coach Ed Orgeron would be given the opportunity to make his pitch for the future to Alleva following Thursday’s game at Texas A&M.
The chairman of Houston’s Board of Regents recently stated that the Cougars will not be outbid by LSU, Texas or any other Power 5 program pursuing Herman.
Once again Texas botched it by refusing to pull the trigger on their coach.
I hope LSU gets Herman, I hate how Texas thinks they can controls everything and by doing so they’ve only destroyed the Texas football program. LSU, please do us all a favor and piss off Texas to a level no Longhorn has ever seen before
As a LSU fan I love this hire. I think I mentioned on here a few days ago that I didn’t think Herman to Texas was a lock. Texas is not an ideal job. The Big 12 is a mess and mainly because of Texas. Instead of doing what was in the best interest of the Big 12 (and ultimately in Texas’s best interest), they were greedy & wanted to to make sure they got more money than the other teams in the conference. That caused TA&M, Missouri, Nebraska, etc to leave. Texas is not as ideal of a job as Texas thinks it is. Texas probably thought that all they had to do was have the osition open & Herman would have come running. With that said, I hope this isn’t some premature report that will end up with LSU shooting ourselves in the foot.
Agree 100%
I’m somewhat stunned that LSU can get any coach of note given how they’ve treated Mile and now Orgeron. What amount of hubris must one possess to think they won’t be treated the same way?
This report, as with most things coming from Chip Brown, is false. He is putting it out there so that after Texas fires Strong (bad move IMO) and hires Herman it will have the look that Texas is better than LSU as they were able to land Herman while LSU didn’t.
Chip Brown is all about making up reports to make the team he supports look good.