Despite his relative youth, let it never be said that Tom Herman didn’t work his way up to being head football coach at Texas. The 41-year-old has previously had stints at Texas Lutheran, Sam Houston State, Texas State, Rice, Iowa State, Ohio State and Houston.
“When people said, ‘Hey, what do you do?’ I would say, ‘I’m a subcontractor. Or submarine contractor,” Herman told the newspaper.“I used to love the pastrami,” he said. “They had those big walk-in refrigerators. I was standing in there one day, with the door shut, just throwing pastrami in my mouth.“It was like something out of a movie. I’ve got this bin of meat, throwing meat in my mouth, the door swings open and it’s the owner.“He goes, ‘Get out. Don’t come back.’ “
Way to go out in a blaze of heartburn, Tom. But who can blame him? Pastrami is pretty hard to resist, especially for a teenager with access to a “bin of meat.”
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Most of Herman’s other jobs listed in the Morning News were media-related and date to his college days at Cal Lutheran and UC-Davis. They included gigs with a local sports-radio station and the “NFL on Fox,” but he also made some money during high school working in a batting cage and at a tuxedo shop.
Taking over from Charlie Strong, Herman is now hoping to have an extended stay in Austin. If he succeeds in bringing the Longhorns back to national prominence, boosters will be happy to supply him with all the Texas barbecue he can handle — or pastrami, if Herman prefers.