Texas Football: Impact of Ex-OSU assistant Zach Smith’s unnecessary drama with Tom Herman
The impact felt for Tom Herman and Texas football from the latest Zach Smith news is felt in the media world, but shouldn’t be in the locker room.
The connection between head Texas football coach Tom Herman and the off-the-field drama surrounding the Ohio State Buckeyes coaching staff cannot seem to grind to a halt. Once again, a key figure from Ohio State got involved in unnecessary off-the-field drama with Herman to spark up a ton of storylines and social media conflicts that don’t need to be distracting this team right now.
This time, it was the former assistant coach that was let go during the 2018 off-season, Zach Smith, that started the drama with Herman and the Texas Longhorns. It seems as if Ohio State’s head football coach Urban Meyer didn’t have anything to do with this at all. Meyer should also know that his locker room doesn’t need anything taking the focus off the next two games either.
The whole saga involving Herman with Ohio State dates back to when he was an assistant coach under Meyer dating all the way back before the 2014 season. Herman was an assistant for the Buckeyes before taking his first big head coaching job that came with the Houston Cougars that lasted until he left for Texas football before the 2017 campaign.
We won’t dive too deep into the Twitter storm that the former Ohio State assistant Zach Smith cooked up following Week 11 of the 2018 college football season. Although, it did involve quite a few Tweets directly at Herman and the Horns.
Soooo many people want to talk about football fandom bias. Keep DM’ing me. I love you guys!!! Problem is... I’m not gonna sit here silent. So y’all have a good night. Plenty more coming for ole @CoachTomHerman and @belletjh ‼️
— Zach Smith (@CoachZachSmith) November 12, 2018
FanSided’s own Texas A&M Aggies fan site called the Gig’Em Gazette even got a piece of the action with Smith directly responding to a quoted Tweet of Herman posted on their timeline. That was not the only Tweet that Smith responded to that had nothing to do with anything relevant to Herman, Texas football, or Ohio State football.
Owned who? He had no other response because he know what I’m saying is TRUTH. Gig that. Lmao https://t.co/rVWU3qr6HF
— Zach Smith (@CoachZachSmith) November 12, 2018
As of the early afternoon CT on Nov. 12, the Twitter meltdown from Smith is still posted on his timeline here. It’s good of Herman to not respond to this since Smith isn’t holding a job with a Power Five program anymore.
In all likelihood though, Herman and pretty much all of the Texas football players won’t get too distracted by this media firestorm created by Smith and the former ties to the head coach of the Horns. This is something that is irrelevant in terms of the focus that the Horns should have on hosting the top 25 ranked Iowa State Cyclones at home on Nov. 17.
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Considering how low Smith went to try and bash Herman personally during this Twitter storm, no one that has any association with the Texas football program shouldn’t even take this into account. We hope that this is the end of the whole Urban Meyer-Tom Herman sage that is going on for way too long and turn the focus back to football on the Forty Acres.