For all the aspiring head coaches in college football, follow the Tom Herman plan. Coordinate offenses at multiple schools, making upward moves with every new job, finally earning the right to run the offense at one of the most tradition laden programs in college football history... Ohio State. Do your thing for three seasons, culminating in a national title, then accept a head coaching position at a school where you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are an elite recruiter and talent developer. Typically, one won't get Texas or Notre Dame or Alabama or Ohio State to offer its open head coaching position to a 40 year old career coordinator, so you need to go PROVE to the blue bloods that you are worthy, and you do that with program like Houston. A school that has no business beating FSU in a major bowl game, or beating Oklahoma on a neutral field... but does. Tom Herman, deservedly so, is THE hottest thing in coaching right now, and he's done it the right way. He's earned everything he's gotten. He didn't ask for, or expect, a top school to entrust its program to an unproven assistant coach. No, Herman slowly and surely climbed the ladder to a head coaching job at a school that, while technically not a Mid-Major, is a long, long way from college football royalty. Go to Houston, or Cincinnati, or Utah, win and win big, and the elite programs will come calling with a semi truck full of money and the opportunity to win national titles. Good on you, Tom Herman. You've absolutely earned your success.