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Heartland College Sports: Big 12 College Football Podcast

Justin Wells, Inside Texas on Firing Tom Herman, Hiring Steve Sarkisian

Heartland College Sports: Big 12 College Football Podcast

Pete Mundo

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.9836 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week I talked with Justin Wells of InsideTexas.com about the Texas Longhorns firing Tom Herman and hiring Steve Sarkisian. Why was Tom Herman fired? Why Steve Sarkisian? What can he do better and differently? That and much more! Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Well, it's been a heck of a week for the Texas Longhorns. I'm Pete Mundo. We're

0:12.1

Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of Heartland College Sports.com. Your independent,

0:16.4

Big 12, digital media outlet and a guy who is now a friend of the show does great work covering the

0:23.5

Texas Longhorns. He is Justin Wells at Inside Texas, the managing editor there. And before we

0:30.0

dive into it with Justin, a reminder, leave us that rating, review, subscribe to this podcast,

0:34.8

and we've got Heartland College Sports Cosies to send to you with a rating

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and review. Send me a screenshot of that rating and review to Pete Mundo M-U-N-D-O at Heartlandcollege

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Sports.com and your coozy will be in the mail. It helps us more than you realize. That's why we're

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offering these coosies back up in return. And I'll tell you what, our friends at Inside Texas, they were ahead of the curve.

0:56.8

And Justin, that's where I want to start here myself.

1:00.1

And basically everybody in college football said, hey, it looks like Tom Herman's coming

1:03.8

back.

1:04.3

Christel Conti puts out a statement saying that Tom Herman is the head coach.

1:08.1

And he did say at the time time he will be in 2021.

1:12.3

You guys at inside Texas, you know, you just, you weren't buying it.

1:16.0

You were a little more skeptical, and you were proven right.

1:18.9

What happened?

1:22.1

Well, to simplify it, we trusted our sources.

1:26.3

We felt really confident with the people we speak with inside and out of the program

1:30.6

within, you know, Christo Kante's group and Coach Hartzell, I mean, Jay Hartzell, the president.

1:37.1

And we just felt like our sourcing was good.

1:40.2

And to be honest with you, if you followed the team and the program for the four years that Herman was there, you should have anticipated this.

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