Houston Football Head Coach Kicks Boosters Out Of First Class For Team Flights, Lets Linemen Sit There Instead

Nikintopalmer – Houston’s Tom Herman is in his first year as head coach for the Cougars. He spent the past 3 seasons at Ohio State working under Urban Meyer as his Offensive Coordinator. He was a driving force behind their successful trio of QB’s… oh and they won the national championship last year.

It was hard for me to choose which [untold] sideline story to write about because the Herman + Houston narrative is so intriguing to me…

I could quickly infer how much he genuinely cares about his program, his coaches and his players. I mean I’m talking about the same coach who physically laid tile himself at the facility and paid for it out of his own pocket to improve conditions. He’s also made a stride to improve conditions for certain [and deservingly so] players.

Herman has been very vocal the big fellas getting things done in the trenches will be the driving force behind his team. And for that reason alone he, his coaches, his players and so on will treat them like first class. The offensive and defensive linemen are first in line before others no matter what they’re doing [eating] or where they’re going [away games]. In fact up until Coach Herman took the reigns, Houston boosters occupied first class seats when the Cougars traveled to away games. Not anymore. Louisville marked the first game where it all changed. Coach calls his linemen “gladiators” because they literally bleed on the line week after week. In football nobody gets pounded harder than the front 5. He said if he wants to treat them like first class, he wants to give them first class. He wants to make sure they’re comfortable and taken care of because they take care of us on gamedays.

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Tom Herman is such a hardo and I absolutely love it. Such an awesome move here – kicking out all your big money boosters from First Class and giving it to your linemen. Telling these rich bigwigs to pack up their shit into their fancy little European carryalls and get back in coach while the gritty gladiators take their rightful spot. Most coaches kiss their boosters’ ass. Tom Herman basically hands a parachute to them at 35,000 feet and tells them to get the fuck off the plane if his boys are cramped.

I asked Coach if he received any backlash from boosters about the switch and he candidly conveyed he didn’t care because they deserve it. And they’re the ones who help us win football games.

If you need any further proof why UH is 3-0 right now, look no further than the head ball coach.

((Also their schedule. You can look at that too)).

Seriously am I a Houston football fan now? I mean I’m still bobbing my head thinking about how hard they turned up after beating Louisville.

PS,

In 3 or 4 years from now when the football program is disbanded because they raised $0 from boosters, I will discontinue being a Tom Herman and Houston fan.