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Blake BaumgartnerESPN Staff Writer
Former Texas manager Tom Herman was named Florida Atlantic's caller caput shot manager Thursday, the schoolhouse announced.
Herman replaces Willie Taggart, who was fired past month aft going 5-7 this season. Taggart went 15-18 successful his 3 seasons successful Boca Raton, reaching the Montgomery Bowl successful 2020, his archetypal season, earlier consecutive 5-7 campaigns.
"There are already large young men connected this team, large facilities, a large location, a large recruiting basal and large leadership, each of which are important to gathering a palmy program," Herman said arsenic portion of a quality merchandise from the school.
Herman gives the Owls a manager with a way grounds of renowned violative success. Across six seasons astatine Houston (2015-16) and Texas (2017-20), helium has accumulated a vocation grounds of 54-22 and has 5 vessel victories -- 4 coming astatine Texas.
His champion play successful Austin came successful 2018 arsenic the Longhorns went 10-4, finished 2nd successful the Big 12 and bushed Georgia successful the Sugar Bowl. Before taking the head-coaching occupation astatine Houston earlier the 2015 season, Herman was Urban Meyer's violative coordinator astatine Ohio State, helping pb the programme to the inaugural College Football Playoff nationalist title successful 2014.
The Buckeyes that twelvemonth were ninth successful full discourtesy (511.6 YPG) and averaged 44.8 points successful 2014 arsenic Herman won the Broyles Award, which is annually fixed retired to the apical adjunct manager successful the country.
"Throughout the process and the much we talked with Coach Herman, the much it became evident to maine that helium was the close idiosyncratic to pb our shot program," FAU diversion manager Brian White said. "Beyond his cognition of the game, which is evident by his occurrence implicit the years, helium besides genuinely cares astir the young radical successful his program. He has coached winning programs everyplace helium has been and we judge helium tin beryllium tremendously palmy astatine FAU arsenic well."
Herman is expected to clasp Ed Warinner arsenic the Owls' violative enactment coach, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel. Warriner worked astatine Ohio State erstwhile Herman was the Buckeyes' violative coordinator.
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