Texas A&M names Mike Sherman as coach

[SirCrimson]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5328187.html

 

[FitToBeTide]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

That looks to put the kibosh on Tubby(or anyone else) to TAMU. Sounds like they have their man.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

According to the Dallas Morning News, Sherman should be announced today at an 11AM news conference.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/1126076dnspoamlede.2b70661.html

 

[BigTex]

Houston Chronicle reports Sherman is the man

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5328187.html

 

[trenda]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

I think Sherman is a good fit for the Aggies.

Good luck to him and aTm.

 

[TexasTideFan]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

I think Sherman is a good fit for the Aggies.

Good luck to him and aTm.

I agree and with Coach Kubiak being an Aggie, he will probably get alot of slack cut to him for hitting the recruitng trail as well as getting his feet wet with the team a little early.

 

[Tide64]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

There seems to be mixed feelings about this hire amongst the Aggie faithful.

TexAgs forum

 

[crimsonaudio]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

I'm kinda surprised by this hire - I could see someone like Chris Peterson really doing well there. Wait and see, but now that fRan is gone, I hope A&M can start playing some real football again. i used to enjoy watching their defense play ball (and did under fRan as well, but for very different reasons)...

 

[CapstoneTider]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

There seems to be mixed feelings about this hire amongst the Aggie faithful.

TexAgs forum

He seems boring at first glance but after digging deeper I see a lot of positive. Farve is probably a good judge of coaches, and he really liked Sherman when he was the head coach and GM with the Packers.

 

[Johnwants#15]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

This is freakin hilarious!!!
Wasn't the "hot" rumor 1 or 2 DAYS during our search that Sherman was gonna be our coach and we even had rumors of a 2 o'clock press conf. one day???
So much deja vu!
Memories whoa whoa whoa whoa memories,flowin through the pages of my mind. (poor singing and wrong words goin on here)


We were not thrilled with Sherm either.

 

[BamaIMRice]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

ESPN is also reporting the story from the Houston Chronicle about an 11am press conference. If it's true, good luck Sherman!

 

[Crimson Surfer]

A&M set to introduce Sherman as coach

Texas A&M has scheduled a news conference for 11 a.m. today to introduce Mike Sherman as its football coach, replacing Dennis Franchione, who resigned Friday.

The Houston Chronicle reported Sunday that Sherman, 52, had emerged as A&M's leading candidate. Sherman was head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 2000-05, compiling a 59-43 record and winning three division titles.

 

[Crimson Cat]

JMO, of course, but I think its kind of an odd hire. I thought they might go after a young up-and-comer college HC. Sherman has a bit of history there at TAMU so I would assume thats why the PTB wanted him. Guess they had him targeted all along since it happened so quickly. Sounds like the aggie fans have mixed feelings about the hire though.

 

[BAMAHD]

If true its nothing but a good ol boy old money hire. There are better coaches out there than Sherman, Who is on nobody's list.
With this hire they should have kept Fran.

 

[TiderB]

I don't understand why they went out and immediately hired Sherman. I mean, come on, it's only been 2 days since fran resigned. At least go out and try to hire the best guy. If you fail, so what, then you go back to Sherman.

 

[Mamacalled]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

I'm kinda surprised by this hire - I could see someone like Chris Peterson really doing well there. Wait and see, but now that fRan is gone, I hope A&M can start playing some real football again. i used to enjoy watching their defense play ball (and did under fRan as well, but for very different reasons)...

It will be hard for anyone to pull Petersen away from Boise. He is getting paid 1 mil a year in a city that is hard to beat. His son also has a special medical problem and Boise is one of the few cities that has the medical care to treat him.

 

[jeremy]

who?

 

[crimsonaudio]

Re: Mike Sherman might be Tam's man

It will be hard for anyone to pull Petersen away from Boise. He is getting paid 1 mil a year in a city that is hard to beat. His son also has a special medical problem and Boise is one of the few cities that has the medical care to treat him.

Ahh, I wasn't aware of the medical issues, makes sense.

Aside form that, $1M a year for a coach that appears to be as good as he is chump change nowadays.

 

[Crimson Cat]

who?

See Houston Texans- Sherman also used to coach the Packers. Strictly an NFL guy.

 

[Crimson Cat]

I don't understand why they went out and immediately hired Sherman. I mean, come on, it's only been 2 days since fran resigned. At least go out and try to hire the best guy. If you fail, so what, then you go back to Sherman.

Those were my thoughts too, strictly from an outside viewpoint. I'm not sure they interviewed anyone else. At least most of the aggies don't seem to think so. It sure seems like most of this was worked out prior to Fran's "resignation".