A report out of the South Carolina market surfaced late Tuesday afternoon stating that Houston head coach Tom Herman agreed to become the next head coach of the Gamecocks, pending a visit with athletics director Ray Tanner and his wife signing off on the city of Columbia. Herman was stopped by Mark Berman of Fox News, who asked him about the veracity of the report.

"I chalk it up to the internet," Herman said. "It's a crazy world out there in the cybersphere and anything can put anything they want. I don't pay attention to it. I addressed it with the team on Sunday that nothing that you see on the internet is true."

.@UHCougarFB @CoachTomHerman told his players any reports they c on the internet linking him 2 other jobs r not true pic.twitter.com/1PDQ1iVQbP — Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) November 25, 2015



Early Tuesday evening, Tanner said in no uncertain terms that the report of an agreement was "absolutely not true."