It's pathetic to the point of being embarrassing.
Tom Herman leaves for UT-Austin (understandable), has a press conference, says a few nice words about Houston, and the media here swoons.
Tom Herman Expresses LOVE for Houston in Statement After Taking Texas Job. Robby Kelland, CBSSports.com
Has it gone that far?
Has Houston morphed into the Sally Fields of cities? Barely literate, not all that bright and gushing "You LIKE me, you REALLY, REALLY LIKE me?"
Houston has always been a city whose inferiority complex (especially where other Texas cities are concerned) is about as big as its geographic area. When magnified by a media who are diminutive themselves it becomes massive. Like, generates it's own gravitational field massive.
This has always struck me as odd for two reasons.
1. Houston, aside from a few notable items, is a pretty decent place to live. In fact, it would be a great place to live were it not for those who persist on making it a "world-class" city by incorporating the failed ideas of Richard Florida.
2. Most of Texas' major cities are in the same, rapidly sinking, fiscal boat. So really, there's nothing to yearn for when you look to Dallas, Austin or *gag* Fort Worth because we're all running off a cliff together.
What Tom Herman has proven here is that whispering sweet nothings in the city's ear while running out the morning after a quickie is all it takes to mollify the media in this town.
Maybe Bud Adams should have tried that?
