Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman doesn’t ever want his players to get used to losing. At times in past seasons, it seemed as if that was the case for the ‘Horns as blowout followed blowout under Mack Brown and Charlie Strong.
“Here we go again,” the players used to tell one another on the sideline.
The residue of those losses still permeates the program.
“Three straight losing seasons takes its toll on kids,” Herman said on Tuesday. ‘It really does. It’s difficult for them, especially when you deal with adversity. It can be a ‘here we go again’ syndrome, so that has been an ongoing challenge of re-establishing the right way to handle adversity, and the right way to compete, and the right way to go about our daily business.