Topic: Daily Mail: A different side of the Herd's hoops coach

[ZackUSAF82]

by Chuck McGill
Daily Mail sports writer

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- There is a side of Tom Herrion you probably don't know.

He loves to golf and keeps his clubs and spikes in the back of his Jeep. He is a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan. He ranks Rocco's Italian food among the best he has ever had. Fruit punch is his preferred flavor of Gatorade.

I got to know a different version of Tom Herrion during my two-day trip with him to an AAU basketball tournament in Morgantown, where it seems he is now more known as the Marshall coach who is 1-0 against West Virginia than the Pitt assistant who was once pelted by a coin.

During our trip north on Interstate 79, Herrion says little. He talks on the phone frequently and constantly fiddles with the air conditioning. He stays tuned to ESPN radio. His sense of humor is subtle, and there isn't a trace of the red-faced, jacket-shedding, foot-stomping, official-hounding coach sometimes seen patrolling the sidelines at Herd basketball games.

"I still think people misinterpret my passion and energy for crazed, and I understand why," Herrion said as he ate a pretzel in between games at University High School last Friday afternoon. "That is the fun part of it, but it is not all chaotic. People don't get the opportunity to see me in other environments, but there's a lot more to it than mad scientist."

Link: http://dailymail.com/Sports/201107191111

[goherd88]

i love coach herrion

great story

[herd_67]

Nice read, we are lucky to have him and if the herdnation goes all in supporting the herd he will stay around awhile and build us into a solid winner!