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Texas Football: Zach Smith jabs at Tom Herman after firing

Tom Herman, Texas Football (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)

Now former Texas football head coach Tom Herman had his firing draw a lot of different polarized reviews on social media this weekend.

On the morning of Jan. 2, the shocking news hit the public spotlight that the Texas football program would be replacing now former fourth-year head coach Tom Herman with the current Alabama Crimson Tide offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian. The Broyles Award winner Sarkisian was a pretty surprising hire for Texas athletic director Chris del Conte given the pursuit of the former Florida Gators and Ohio State Buckeyes three-time National Championship winning head coach Urban Meyer a few months back.