Tom Herman's Houston is rolling, but that doesn't mean the Cougar jefé is about to tolerate a slip in program decorum.
Last Monday — fresh of his team's first appearance in the Coaches Poll — Herman sauntered into the Coogs' locker room to find it in disarray. Laundry "all over the floors" and some "open dirty foot lockers," were abound.
Not on Tom Herman's watch.
From FoxSports.com:
“The place looked like (bleep),” Herman told FOX Sports. “We want that place to be ‘recruit-ready’ 24 hours a day. It needs to be pristine, and it wasn’t."
Herman winced about what the sloppy locker room was a sign of. “We’re changing back into these old ways,” Herman thought -- and that can’t happen. Herman ripped his team the next day at a meeting and had everyone, players, staff -- even UH’s head trainer, who Herman said is like 71 years old -- running half-gassers after practice. “Yeah, we were 6-0, but I’m thinking, ‘If I let this one go, we’re heading down a slippery slope and it was gonna bite us in the ass."
Why is Herman so hyper-aware of having his facilities "recruit-ready" 24/7? Because Herman and ill-prepared Rice facilities once bungled the recruitment of Andrew Luck.
