Texas Football: Tom Herman’s wife on South Carolina coaching rumor

Texas football head coach Tom Herman had a slight recent connection with the South Carolina Gamecocks head coach opening earlier in the month.

There was an interesting recent sequence of events going on between the media, around the SEC landscape, and fourth-year Texas football head coach Tom Herman. Granted Herman likely was not the biggest fan of the media of late given the way his hot seat situation went during the Urban Meyer rumor period.

An editor of the Charleston Post and Courier Gene Sapakoff had a conversation emerge on the Twitter timeline of Paul Finebaum this week. He reportedly stated that “I’m not gonna say he (Herman) begged for the job, but my sources say he was quite interested”.

This was in reference to a connection he discussed between Herman and the South Carolina Gamecocks head coaching job. South Carolina had their head coaching job open up earlier in the fall after they parted ways with former Texas defensive coordinator (and their fifth-year ex-head coach) Will Muschamp.

Soon after this discussion started on “The Paul Finebaum Show” earlier this week, Tom’s wife Michelle Herman shut down this coaching rumor in connection with South Carolina. She responded on her Twitter timeline on the afternoon of Dec. 15 that “this is false” in context to that aforementioned South Carolina coaching rumor.

Really the only concrete evidence of a connection between the Longhorns head coach Herman and South Carolina is part of that report from Sapakoff where he stated that the Gamecocks’ AD contacted him about the job. But South Carolina ultimately wound up hiring former Oklahoma Sooners assistant Shane Beamer for their head coaching job.

It was recently announced by Texas athletic director Chris del Conte that the football program would be keeping Herman as their head coach heading into 2021. That came after that pursuit of Texas regents, boosters, administration, etc. for the former Ohio State and Florida head coach Meyer ended.

The Longhorns finished up the 2020 regular season, under Herman’s direction, with a record of 6-3 (5-3 Big 12) following their dominating Dec. 5 road win over the Kansas State Wildcats by a score of 69-31. Texas now awaits their fate for the postseason once conference championship weekend concludes.