So What is Sherm's Legacy?

Great coach Sunday-Friday, decent coach Saturday morning, awful coach half time and beyond.

He'll be remembered fondly for his demeanor and relationship with the players, but he was an underachiever on the field due to his stubbornness.

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Not that Sherman realized what kind of talent he signed. He redshirted both of them.

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I'm sorry but that writer is dumb as hell to think that Johnny shouldn't have been redshirted. Never mind that he was never going to take away the starting gig from Tannehill or the fact that QB play wasn't anywhere near the main problem in 2011.

I really have no issue with Evans getting the shirt either considered how raw he was at the time. He had played football for what, two years at that point?

Off the field- no doubt he seemed like a great guy

On the field/recruiting- definite mixed bag. He could recruit and develop the shite out of an O Line. He had a pretty good eye for offensive talent overall I think. Defensively he neglected key areas on the recruiting trail and that's why we are where we are on that side of the ball. I also think he just wasn't the type that could ever recruit at an elite level.

In game it could be enraging watching us play and thinking back to some of those blown leads makes me want to hit the bottle.

Overall he was a good transition coach from Fran. Everything I've heard says he built back a lot of the good will that Fran fricked up with HS coaches. He put is in a position to be able to be successful at a certain level right away in the SEC. He was never going to take us to the next level though IMO, but again he seemed like a great person and I wish him the best. The win streak in 2010 was by far my best football memory from school and I'll never forget going to some of those games, especially Nebraska. I hope he looks back on his A&M years positively as well

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Overall he was a good transition coach from Fran. Everything I've heard says he built back a lot of the good will that Fran fricked up with HS coaches. He put is in a position to be able to be successful at a certain level right away in the SEC. He was never going to take us to the next level though IMO, but again he seemed like a great person and I wish him the best. The win streak in 2010 was by far my best football memory from school and I'll never forget going to some of those games, especially Nebraska. I hope he looks back on his A&M years positively as well

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Sherman may not have been the coach we wanted, but he was certainly the coach we needed. He inherited an absolute mess and slowly did what he needed to do to build a program. Because of his success in finding offensive talent, somehow he gets blamed for not also building a world class defensive pipeline, as if it's that easy on either side of the ball.

Our job was a plum job in 2012 because it was ready to come out of the darkness of the last decade. The foundation had been laid. Some view our success as luck. But it was years of preparation and then lightening struck. While I'm not of the opinion Sherm was ready to take that next step, what he'd already done was instrumental in that preparation on and off the field.

Like the guy, he has a great nose for potential talent. Exceptionally stubborn and that was his downfall as a game time coach.

Sherm was the bridge from Fran to Sumlin. He rebuilt a lot of connections with HS coaches across the state that Fran destroyed. We needed the time to repair Fran's damage; it was almost like we were under recruiting sanctions.

Sherm was necessary, just like the coaches that take over under NCAA sanctions; someone decent has to get in there and tread water long enough for the program to take a breath, reorganize and get ready to come back strong. They don't seem to make it very long, usually just a few years, but they pave the way for a real winner to come behind them.

Sherm was vital to the program, just not as a gameday coach.

Here is Mike Sherman's legacy:

Led Arkansas State 14-3 at halftime; outscored 15-0 after the 6 minute mark of the 3rd Quarter.

Led Colorado 21-10 at halftime and 31-21 with 8 minutes left in the game. Outscored 14-3 in the final 8 minutes.

Led Oklahoma State 21-7 at halftime. Outscored 21-0 in the third quarter and 31-14 in the 2nd half.

Led Oklahoma State 20-3 at halftime. Outscored 21-0 in the third quarter and 27-9 in the 2nd half.

Led Arkansas 35-17 at halftime. Outscored 10-0 in the third quarter and 25-3 in the 2nd half.

Led Missouri 28-14 just before halftime and 28-17 after 3. Outscored 20-3 from the 3 minute mark in the 2nd quarter on.

Led Kansas State 31-21 with 6 minutes left. Lost in overtime.

Led Texas 16-7 at halftime. Outscored 17-0 in the third and 20-9 overall.

Why did you do that? That's one helluvalot of documented pain.

Sherman did the best possible job that could be done. He was given NOTHING to start with except an undeveloped Von miller whom he developed. He took us from the 1940's triple option worst offense in America bullshite Fran left us with and at least brought us into modern college football with a pro style offense that set the stage for Sumlin to transition to the HUNH. We are in TEXAS for goodness sake, land of the free, home of the high school recruits on offense. He recruited as well as possible turning our situation at every offensive position group into a positive. You can't blame him for leaving the cupboard empty on defense, because as we are now finding out, there is truly only enough elite defensive talent in the state for one school to have enough. Yes, he could have won more and coached better. The only problem I have with him is he was against the move to the SEC. Other than that, he is a very underrated part of the current success we are having. The history books will probably forget about him and just remember the W-L. It was a damn shame the way he was kicked to the curb. Here's to Sherman, , thanks for modernizing our offense and having an elite eye for football talent

3rd quarter of 2011 Oke St was Sherm's Iowa State for me.