“Thinking outside the box.” Hmmm. where could that lead us? Coach, you are in perhaps an unprecedented situation. Much of the great buzz surrounding your achievements is not just about what you have done, but where you have done it. Winning at UT, or LSU, Alabama, USC or any other blue-chip football program s not automatic, but the money, prestige and talent is ever available to facilitate the effort. You always have a tailwind and every conceivable advantage. Winning at the University of Houston, lacking the glamour, inertia and financial backing of these types of programs represents a truly significant accomplishment. Surely you will credit your entire staff and team, and yet your leadership shines. We UH supporters love your winning ways, but more than that we are knocked out by the culture of love, core values, mindfulness, character-building, personal responsibility, and expectation of high achievement you are inculcating at our school, and in the midst of Houston, soon to be the third largest city in America. You could go 0-13 (though we are doubtful that could happen) and we would still love and support you. Under your guidance, UH football has become an upstart of athletic excellence AND student-athlete quality of character. In this day and age (hello Baylor), that is priceless. You could be a game-changer not just at UH but throughout college sports, maybe all sports. By demanding excellence, including that of the character of your players, with a culture based on love, you are broadcasting a different way to approach this whole enterprise. You are rocking the status-quo. And by sticking at UH at a lower (right, $3 million a year) payment scale than you could easily command by skipping to any number of university programs that are richer than God and perfectly willing to steal other schools' coaches and continue the obscene escalation of sports salaries, you are strongly signaling that there are far more important things in life than money. There is another way. The happiest man needs the least to be happy. That’s a message our entire materialistic, mindless-heartless consumer culture desperately needs! The outside-the-box thinking and doing that Tom Herman does at UH could have reverberations that could help restore some semblance of sanity to the crazy coaching carousels and money-grubbing customs of sports, and thereby visible to culture-at-large. You will continue to be a phenomenon worthy of great attention and admiration as long as you are right there, spreading the “Gospel according to UH.” What you are doing there is elevating a football program, a university, the Third Ward and surrounding neighborhoods and a major city in college football self-esteem as well as overall prestige. The mission to “turn Houston red” is a perfect metaphor for the totally unique situation you are in. Where else are you going to get a challenge like that? Are you going to turn Austin orange, turn College State maroon, turn Waco green, turn Baton Rouge purple? You are going places no one has gone before. We certainly appreciate Coach Yeoman’s contributions, but his was a different era infused with less dramatic potential for the big picture than is now presented to you. As a MENSA guy, you’ve probably considered all of this. The moment you give in to Mr. Money Bags at UT or A&M or Baylor or wherever, you’ll be just another in a line of succession where success is rote and the boosters are fickle and short-tempered (ask your buddy Mack Brown). You’ll certainly be richer in money, but you’ll be poorer in originality, uniqueness, challenge, loyalty, deeper relevance and, quite likely, happiness… in other words, all the things that really count. The pundits all report you are gone to a “bigger” program soon. Yep, that would be the conformist, materialistic path, and that’s precisely who they think you are. Prove them wrong. Stay in Houston and win, and spread the gospel of mind and heart over wealth and power, forever! Go Coogs!
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“Thinking outside the box.” Hmmm. where could that lead us?
Coach, you are in perhaps an unprecedented situation. Much of the great buzz surrounding your achievements is not just about what you have done, but where you have done it. Winning at UT, or LSU, Alabama, USC or any other blue-chip football program s not automatic, but the money, prestige and talent is ever available to facilitate the effort. You always have a tailwind and every conceivable advantage. Winning at the University of Houston, lacking the glamour, inertia and financial backing of these types of programs represents a truly significant accomplishment. Surely you will credit your entire staff and team, and yet your leadership shines.
We UH supporters love your winning ways, but more than that we are knocked out by the culture of love, core values, mindfulness, character-building, personal responsibility, and expectation of high achievement you are inculcating at our school, and in the midst of Houston, soon to be the third largest city in America. You could go 0-13 (though we are doubtful that could happen) and we would still love and support you. Under your guidance, UH football has become an upstart of athletic excellence AND student-athlete quality of character. In this day and age (hello Baylor), that is priceless.
You could be a game-changer not just at UH but throughout college sports, maybe all sports. By demanding excellence, including that of the character of your players, with a culture based on love, you are broadcasting a different way to approach this whole enterprise. You are rocking the status-quo. And by sticking at UH at a lower (right, $3 million a year) payment scale than you could easily command by skipping to any number of university programs that are richer than God and perfectly willing to steal other schools' coaches and continue the obscene escalation of sports salaries, you are strongly signaling that there are far more important things in life than money. There is another way. The happiest man needs the least to be happy. That’s a message our entire materialistic, mindless-heartless consumer culture desperately needs! The outside-the-box thinking and doing that Tom Herman does at UH could have reverberations that could help restore some semblance of sanity to the crazy coaching carousels and money-grubbing customs of sports, and thereby visible to culture-at-large. You will continue to be a phenomenon worthy of great attention and admiration as long as you are right there, spreading the “Gospel according to UH.” What you are doing there is elevating a football program, a university, the Third Ward and surrounding neighborhoods and a major city in college football self-esteem as well as overall prestige. The mission to “turn Houston red” is a perfect metaphor for the totally unique situation you are in. Where else are you going to get a challenge like that? Are you going to turn Austin orange, turn College State maroon, turn Waco green, turn Baton Rouge purple? You are going places no one has gone before. We certainly appreciate Coach Yeoman’s contributions, but his was a different era infused with less dramatic potential for the big picture than is now presented to you. As a MENSA guy, you’ve probably considered all of this. The moment you give in to Mr. Money Bags at UT or A&M or Baylor or wherever, you’ll be just another in a line of succession where success is rote and the boosters are fickle and short-tempered (ask your buddy Mack Brown). You’ll certainly be richer in money, but you’ll be poorer in originality, uniqueness, challenge, loyalty, deeper relevance and, quite likely, happiness… in other words, all the things that really count.
The pundits all report you are gone to a “bigger” program soon. Yep, that would be the conformist, materialistic path, and that’s precisely who they think you are. Prove them wrong. Stay in Houston and win, and spread the gospel of mind and heart over wealth and power, forever!
Go Coogs!
"Prove them wrong. Stay in Houston and win.." Hear hear..