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Tom Herman (Former Head Coach FAU Owls)

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Ohio State's new offensive coordinator 'can't wait to put the pads on' in spring drills
Published: Monday, March 12, 2012
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

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Jonathan Quilter, Columbus Dispatch
Ohio State's new offensive coordinator Tom Herman says his "underdog offense" will work just fine in Columbus.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Coaches hate labels. So forget the spread. But as the Ohio State coaches have spent eight hours a day in recent weeks creating an offense under the direction of new coach Urban Meyer, let new offensive coordinator Tom Herman get more descriptive with just what it's going to look like.

"We're going to be a [shot]gun, spread, run-oriented football team that has tremendous balance through the play-action pass.

"We want to be no-huddle, we want to be up-tempo and use that to our advantage. And we want to be balanced. We want to run the football first to set up the throwing game.

"This is what we do, this is what we believe, this is how we are. You guys can call it what you want. We call it the Ohio State offense."

So it will be rather different from what fans have seen from the Ohio State offense in the last decade?

"That would be a true statement," Herman said in a recent interview in his office with The Plain Dealer.

A former offensive coordinator at Iowa State, Rice and Texas State, Herman will be dealing with elite talent for the first time. But he won't waver from his ideas about how to move the ball.

"Growing up in this system, when we first started, it was the 'underdog offense,' if you will," Herman said. "The places I've been have always had a talent deficit compared to 90 percent of the schedule, so I think this offense helped. I used to say, 'If I ever get to Ohio State or USC or Texas, we'd get in the I-formation and we'd just come off the football and maul people every Saturday.' And I took a step back the last few years and said, 'Why would I ever do that?' Now you've got an underdog offense and you put really good players in it and it's even better."

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/03/ohio_states_new_offensive_coor.html
 
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Tom Herman, consultant to consultant to Andrew Luck:
http://cnnsi.com/2012/football/nfl/04/20/Whitfield/index.html

As I read this article, all I could think of was "Why doesn't tOSU hire this guy?"

Then I found some comfort in this little factoid that I personally find very excisting:
Whitfield spends most mornings and early afternoons training an individual or group of quarterbacks. He'll devote additional hours each night to breaking down film of the earlier workout or picking the brain of friends in the industry.
Among those on his speed dial: head coaches Jim Harbaugh (San Francisco 49ers) and James Franklin (Vanderbilt) as well as quarterbacks coaches Geep Chryst (49ers) and Tom Herman (Ohio State).
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Ohio State football: Assistant spreading the word in Texas
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday May 13, 2012

Six months ago, Ohio State wasn?t on the radar screen for speedy running back Dontre Wilson of DeSoto, Texas, who has been courted heavily by Texas, Oregon, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. But now?

?I want to say he?s leaning toward some schools more than others,? DeSoto coach Claude Mathis said. ?And I want to say Ohio State probably is in his top three.?

He said it matter-of-factly, as if it shouldn?t come as a surprise.

?Heck, you?ve got Urban Meyer there at Ohio State now,? Mathis said. ?And (offensive coordinator Tom) Herman is going to run a spread offense that suits Dontre. So I?m not surprised at all.

?I think Ohio State is going to have a chance to get a couple of players out of this state each year just because of the offense they?re going to run and the coaches they have designing the thing.?

The Buckeyes already have a commitment for their 2013 class from quarterback J.T. Barrett of Rider High School in Wichita Falls, Texas.

?I wasn?t surprised at all,? Rider coach Jim Garfield said. ?Coach Meyer had recruited a young man from our place when he was at Florida, so he understands the tradition we have here, the kind of talent that we have here at Rider. And coach Herman, a friend of mine who is recruiting J.T., he came in here and did a great job. So I wasn?t surprised at all with Ohio State?s success.?

Notice that Herman?s name has come up twice. That?s because before being hired as offensive coordinator at Iowa State in 2009, he spent his first 11 years as a coach in Texas, rising from graduate assistant at the University of Texas to an assistant at Sam Houston State, to offensive coordinator at Texas State and Rice. And he recruited in the state when at Iowa State.

?I know him very well,? Mathis said. ?He?s doing a heck of a job recruiting down here, because that offense he ran at Iowa State did wonders for them, and now you?re talking about running that at Ohio State, you?d think it will be even better. Me knowing him helped out a lot (in terms of recruiting Wilson) just because of the relationship I have with him. He?s a good man.?

With that said, Meyer has no intention of setting up an Ohio State satellite shop in, say, Dallas, and making it Herman?s home away from home. But Meyer does want to have a presence in the state.

?I?ve always loved Texas high-school football,? said Meyer, who by NCAA rules can?t talk about specific prospects. ?The players I?ve recruited and coached from there have been good kids, and obviously well prepared because Texas high-school football is so good.

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/05/13/assistant-spreading-the-word-in-texas.html
 
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Fountain of Utes
Tapes bonded Buckeyes coordinator Tom Herman with his new boss
Updated: June 28, 2012
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation

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Courtesy of Ohio State University
Ohio State offensive coordinator Tom Herman took much of his offensive philosophies from Urban Meyer's teams at Utah.

Preparing for his first season as an offensive coordinator and looking around for fresh ideas, there was a logical place for Tom Herman to start in 2005.

A team from outside the power conferences had just gone undefeated thanks to a dynamic, unique attack that seemed to mesh perfectly with the kind of system that was evolving in Herman's brain. So he popped in the film of Utah's perfect season, borrowed a few things to go with what he already had in mind and got to work building a reputation as one of the best young play-callers in the game.

Herman can still easily recall the way the Utes ran the triple-option out of the shotgun, the different looks they gave a defense with a variety of motions and the big plays produced with their play-action passing game.

Seven years later, that background might be even more handy since the man in charge of Utah back then, Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer, tabbed Herman as his new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach despite those old tapes representing one of the few previous ties between them.

"There were a few teams where I was saying, 'Who do we want to be like? Who do we want to emulate?'" Herman said. "Obviously that Utah team, what they did offensively was phenomenal. That was kind of the genesis of building an offense at Texas State, and then maybe every now and again I would reference it later.

"I think they were unique at that time in what they were doing, and we really honed in on it as much as we could learn off of video and tried to incorporate it into what we were doing at Texas State, then on to Rice and Iowa State."

Tom Herman

Title: Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
High school: Simi Valley (Calif.)
College: California Lutheran, 1997; Master's from Texas, 2000
Years coaching: 12
Family: Wife, Michelle; daughter, Priya; son, Maddock
Coaching resume: Texas (offensive graduate assistant, 1999-2000); Sam Houston State (wide receivers and special teams coordinator, 2001-04); Texas State (offensive coordinator and quarterbacks, 2005-06); Rice (offensive coordinator and quarterbacks, 2007-08); Iowa State (offensive coordinator and quarterbacks, 2009-11)
Head coach Urban Meyer, on Herman: "Tom Herman has one of the bright young minds in college football. His philosophies are very similar to those of my own."
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http://espn.go.com/colleges/osu/sto...or-tom-herman-took-urban-meyer-offense-ran-it
 
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The stats that matter
Completion percentage, interceptions vital for QB Miller, says coordinator
Updated: July 18, 2012
By Austin Ward | BuckeyeNation

Tom Herman could make it more complicated if he wanted.

Certainly anybody with an IQ that meets the requirements for a MENSA membership can handle some statistical measurements that require more than basic addition or calculating a percentage.

But the Ohio State offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach doesn't need complex statistics to figure out if his passers have had a productive game, and he's not going to make things any harder than they need to be.

Simple, traditional numbers will work just fine for Herman as he goes to work evaluating the Buckeyes and starter Braxton Miller during his first season with the program.

"Individually, it's turnovers and completion percentage," Herman said in a phone interview last month. "For us, the protection of the football and managing the game is really big.

"Obviously a lot of that comes down to completion percentage when you talk about managing the game, so those two are the biggest things if you are evaluating whether or not a guy had a great Saturday."

Herman throws in one more if he's evaluating whether his offense collectively had a productive weekend, checking to see which team turned in the most plays of 20 yards or more to win the battle for explosive plays.

Of course, the scoreboard trumps them all, but Herman largely can predict how that will read based on his other trusty numbers. And when training camp opens, he and Miller figure to be going straight to work trying to boost the completion percentage of 54.1 he had as a true freshman last season to help tilt the odds in Ohio State's favor.

"I think the biggest thing [in the spring] that we wanted to find out was first and foremost if these guys could throw," Herman said. "Obviously it was very apparent that they could, especially Braxton. He had a knock on him that he wasn't [accurate] for whatever reason, I guess his percentage wasn't great last year or whatever. He had a little bit of a knock publicly that he wasn't the greatest of throwers, but I'm telling you the kid can throw the football.

"I mean, a smooth, quick release coupled with a strong arm. It is a joy to watch."


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