In terms of my personal ears and experience of the event, these were the first words i got him saying on the record, confirmed by the team PR staff in print on papers they hand out to reporters in the press room after the game. It may not be objectively, indisputably true that these were his first thoughts, but keep in mind, at the time, I was SO high on Tom Herman.

I absolutely rolled my eyes at his self-aggrandizing, always-be-promoting brand of sleazy charm (?), because I dealt with mostly high school coaches who only got to stop teaching actual hs classes if they got to be head coach, MAYBE, and who actually loved and supported and nurtured their charges the way Tom Herman always insisted that he did.

But my parents were and are boosters and, like, it was kind of why they hired the guy in the first place. And to my eternal chagrin, I overcame my initial feelings of “blech, miss me with that,” and bought in. Right before the market crashed, so to speak (though from Herman’s pump-and-dump standpoint, I bet it felt like a real market upswing).

So yeah, I’m a little salty about it. There’s nothing in the WORLD I love more than having been right about something all along. And he fucked me. NOT fuck Tom Herman. I’m saying fucking Tom Herman fucked me, but not the classless thing that’s beneath me to say.

We don’t need him.