Tom Herman, Judas, and the Code

Tom Herman has recently resigned as the Houston Cougars football coach to go to the Texas Longhorns – before the season was over.  Herman has been one of the most successful coaches in recent years, and has been admired for the values he has espoused for his team: honesty, integrity, etc.  Unfortunately, he has shown those values to be empty words, as he was talking to Texas while saying he wasn’t, and by preaching loyalty while abandoning the team at the very moment it is supposed to be preparing for a bowl game.  Not only is he abandoning the team, but he is taking six assistant coaches with him!  How is the team to prepare?  It is hard to imagine a more shameless and reprehensible departure.  It turns out, as we research him, that his middle name is Judas, a name synonymous with betrayal.  Texas would have gladly waited until after the bowl game to get Herman, so this is not about money or anything else: this is about honor and integrity, or the lack thereof.  The Code says, “I will display caring and honorable behavior off the field…”  What other leaders have disappointed you?  What would you have done?