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Yeah, agreed, no one claims Herbie’s rant was his idea. He even quoted Barry Jackson (IIRC). No one cared what Barry Jackson wrote though, nor was his criticism of UM original. The problems had been problems for 20 years, longer even.Big difference. Herbie was only a microphone. But if people want to hero worship him, then have at it. I don’t hero worship anybody, especially a guy that really had nothing to do with the whole thing, other than being a mouthpiece for other people.
I appreciate Herbie but Chris Fowler, Desmond Howard, or that week’s guest could have said it word-for-word as far as I care.
The point is the public commentary embarrassed UM to the extent of going on defense and responding in the press.
In many ways, Golden finally being canned was similar. Everyone knew Al was not the right HC, but nothing was done until the worst loss in program history, a humiliating 58-0 near-national TV loss at home to Clemson. There was no coming back from that.
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