Texas Football: 3 reasons Tom Herman deserves contract extension

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JANUARY 01: Sam Ehlinger #11 of the Texas Longhorns celebrates after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs 28-21 during the Allstate Sugar Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on January 01, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) /

2. Texas has improved each year and will continue to do so

If Texas wants to be back, they will have to improve every season. They won’t get there all of a sudden. There are steps they have to take, and Herman has been taking those steps so far as head coach.

Herman took over a team that hasn’t won ten games in a season since Mack Brown and company lost to Nick Saban in 2009. In the four final years of the Brown tenure and the three-year Charlie Strong era, Texas only won two bowl games. Numbers like those show that Herman was going to have to rebuild this program from the ground up.

Despite a lot of struggles in his first year as head coach, Tom Herman managed to get Texas bowl eligible. That was something Strong wasn’t able to do in his final two years in Austin. Not only did they make it to a bowl game, but they won the Texas Bowl. I know that Texas fans aren’t proud of ending their year at the Texas Bowl, but you’ve got to take baby steps.

In his second year, Herman got to ten wins after beating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. He also helped carry the team to the Big 12 Championship Game. That kind of growth in just two years makes you think that the team is still on the rise. If that is so, you’ve got to extend Herman.

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