Texas Football: Charles Omenihu rips at Tom Herman in tweet
Former star Texas football defensive end Charles Omenihu took a shot at head coach Tom Herman in a tweet about the Big 12 Title Game this weekend.
It was a sad day for fourth-year head coach Tom Herman and anyone associated with the Texas football program to watch the rival Oklahoma Sooners take down the Iowa State Cyclones in the Big 12 Championship Game on Dec. 19. Herman watched as two teams that his team came very close to beating this season compete for the Big 12 Title that Texas could’ve realistically won this year.
But that was the nature of this fall for the Longhorns. Texas played up and down to the competition once again, and the results on the recruiting trail started to slip too. Due to those two reasons, above all else, the hot seat conversation resurfaced for Herman in a big way this fall.
Texas tried hard to pursue the former Florida Gators and Ohio State Buckeyes three-time National Championship winning head coach, and current Fox College Football analyst, Urban Meyer. But that pursuit ultimately came up short and Texas athletic director Chris del Conte recently announced that Herman would be coming back as head coach for the 2021 season.
Moreover, some of Herman’s former players have taken to social media recently to voice their criticisms of the coaching staff at hand. The most recent to do so is the former Texas star defensive end and the 2018 Big 12 Defensive Lineman of the Year Charles Omenihu.
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Omenihu took to his Twitter timeline on Dec. 19, while the Big 12 Championship Game between Oklahoma and Iowa State was on, to voice his thoughts on Herman and his staff. And then he did delete the post shortly thereafter.
He posted that “my senior year if we had better coaching we would have whopped them” in reference to the teams playing in the Big 12 Championship Game this year.
Texas did play in the Big 12 Championship back during the 2018, which wound up resulting in a loss to Oklahoma. But Omenihu apparently feels that if his team had a coach better than Herman and his staff, at the time, they could’ve taken care of business against the Sooners.
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Herman and the Longhorns finished up the 2020 regular season with a record of 6-3 (5-3 Big 12), and currently await their postseason fate to round out the weekend. Omenihu’s 2018 Longhorns team had finished up with a record of 10-4, following their big Sugar Bowl victory over the Georgia Bulldogs.