Texas Football: Urban Meyer outcry is about to erupt

It is becoming all the more evident that the Texas football fan base doesn’t want head coach Tom Herman to be around for much longer.

The murmurs surrounding the hot seat of fourth-year Texas football head coach Tom Herman got much worse with the news on the night of Oct. 28 that his 2022 recruiting class was set to lose the commitment of the nation’s top rated 2022 high school quarterback prospect, and five-star Southlake Carroll product Quinn Ewers.

By losing the commitment from Ewers, Herman and the Longhorns could set off a domino effect that lasts well into the next calendar year. Texas might’ve just let a generational talent at the quarterback position get away from them, and a lot of this has to trace back to the lack of positive results on the field/in the win column along with instability on the coaching staff.

This is the second pivotal commitment that the Longhorns lost in a matter of less than one month. Texas also lost the elite four-star Denton-Ryan athlete Billy Bowman Jr. in their 2021 recruiting class. Bowman Jr. was the second-highest rated commit in the 2021 class, behind his teammate and five-star athlete Ja’Tavion Sanders.

With Ewers likely headed for the Ohio State Buckeyes (as it appears now), and Bowman Jr. possibly landing with the rival Oklahoma Sooners, complete disaster struck on the recruiting trail for Herman. Both his 2021 and 2022 recruiting classes are falling apart very quickly, and the Early Signing Period to round out the next cycle is less than two months away.

All of the trouble that Texas is having on the field and on the trail this year is turning the whispers of turbulence surrounding Herman’s job status into screams. The Longhorns fan base is getting beyond impatient with Herman, and rightfully so.

There’s not much hope for anything with this program as it stands now. And most of the outcries from the fan base find a solution in parting ways with Herman and hiring his former boss, and ex-Ohio State/Florida Gators three-time National Championship winning head coach Urban Meyer. Hiring Meyer as the next Texas head coach is all the hype in the Longhorns social media camp right now.

While there’s no public traction or confirmed reports about the Longhorns getting Meyer to the Forty Acres, it is an intriguing thought to help turnaround the program. But hiring Meyer looks like it would come with a cost in multiple regards. He brought off-the-field problems with him to both Gainesville and Columbus. And that’s not necessarily something fans on the Forty Acres all want.

Meyer also rounded out his coaching tenure with Ohio State following the 2018 season due to health problems that showed him in evident pain on the field at times. That is something that might still keep Meyer from returning to the college football coaching ranks if those problems still persist.

Texas enters a pivotal game this weekend (that has so much more importance now after losing the Ewers commitment) against the No. 6 ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys on the road in Stillwater. The Longhorns come in with a record of 3-2 (2-2 Big 12), and Oklahoma State comes in with a record of 4-0 (3-0 Big 12).

This could be the game that determine Herman’s fate on the Forty Acres once and for all.