The question came before the home game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders to end the regular season.
“Tom, at 6-5, how shaken are you and why are you still the right man for this job?”
It was the type of question that comes in the type of press conference that results in the head coach admitting that he and his staff haven’t adequately developed their players. Itself the type of admission that defines the state of the program.
So Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman set up for the first time the possibility of significant changes on his coaching staff before saying the only thing that he could say.