Texas Football: 3 reasons to let Tom Herman stay for rest of the season

3) Why Texas football should let Herman see out the season: Recruiting

Saying that recruiting is a reason why the Longhorns should let Herman stick around for the rest of the season is a pretty undefined statement. More specifically, if Herman can get this Longhorns team on the right track, it could go a long way to keeping the 2022 recruiting class moving in the right direction. Namely it could keep the elite five-star Southlake Carroll pro-style quarterback recruit Quinn Ewers committed in the 2022 class.

Texas already has a pretty disappointing result showing up for their 2021 recruiting class, with a plethora of key prospect whiffs, and one extremely pivotal recent decommit. That crucial recent decommit is the elite four-star Denton-Ryan athlete Billy Bowman Jr., who is very close to getting that highly coveted fifth star.

Losing the commitment of Bowman Jr. (who could potentially wind up flipping his pledge to join head coach Lincoln Riley and the Sooners) means that the Longhorns lost their second highest rated prospect in the 2021 class. Now, there’s a good distance between the lone five-star commit, and fellow Denton-Ryan athlete Ja’Tavion Sanders, and the second highest rated commit in the 2021 class (four-star cornerback Ishmael Ibraheem).

If the Longhorns do manage to find a way to turn this all around, then they could see all of the pieces of the puzzle come together at the right time around the end of the 2020 season and the Early Signing Period. All of those factors culminating together, with the Longhorns finishing off the season well with two or three losses, is about the best case scenario for the fall at this point.