Professor Elam

Friday Dec 16 2016

"This program is going to be really hard," Herman said. "Winning is hard."

The new UT Football coach approaches football apparently like Patton approached war.

Please read the entire link before reading further.

Now view the Patton speech from the award winning 1970 movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYhHIe_UELM

Hm, notice any similarities.  No matter what goal you are pursuing and yes I am thinking of the CPA test here,

winning is hard. I spoke with one of our recent grads who actually did pretty well on the FAR exam, studying on her own she made a 73, two points short of passing.

This is precisely what Herman, and Patton are talking about. It's that last five yards, the tough five questions out of  100 that separate the quick from the dead.

Here is another Herman excerpt.

The Herman era at Houston truly began with 4:30 a.m. winter workouts. Herman locked the locker room until his players earned it. He banned them from wearing UH apparel until they earned it. The workouts felt like pure grunt work, designed to weed out which players weren't mentally tough enough to play for the new coaching staff. You did up-downs until you did them perfectly, and then until you did 30 perfectly.

Players were constantly reminded that their program is based on meritocracy. Everything is earned. In Herman's world, you're either a champion or a loser. Champions get cool stuff. Losers get nothing. You better learn to hate losing.

"I'll be honest with you, it totally brainwashed me," former Houston fullback Luke Stice said. "Winning is contagious. It makes you sick to your stomach to see things being done the wrong way."

The champions in a morning of offseason drills got chicken and waffles and an omelet bar for breakfast. Safety Trevon Stewart said his group ended up with the losers' breakfast one day: intentionally burnt biscuits and watered-down eggs.