The literary merits of Tom Herman

[Phaeded]

www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24568960/texas-longhorns-coach-tom-herman-invokes-mice-men-loss-maryland-terrapins

Texas, Herman said Monday, was like the simple but brutish Lennie from Steinbeck's classic "Of Mice and Men." The Longhorns tried so hard to win that they killed their chance to do it.

"Lennie wanted so badly to touch the rabbit and play with the rabbit -- he squeezed it so hard, he killed the rabbit," Herman said, noting he told linebacker Gary Johnson to read the book. "I know that seems maybe out there a little bit. I think that's what the first quarter was. We wanted it so badly, we got in our own way quite a bit."

Herman mangled the analogy a bit. In the novel, Lennie kills a puppy, a mouse and a woman and only dreams of rabbits. And Lennie gets killed at the end.

But at 7-7 over his first 14 games at Texas, too many more losses could prompt lectures on other Steinbeck titles, such as the "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Winter of Our Discontent."

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I'd save The Grapes of Wrath for the 2nd Saturday in October when the Joads pull into Dallas with a can of whoop @$$.

 

[8085sooner]

Herman didn't read the book, his analogy is completely wrong. Not even sure he watched the entire movie

 

[Schoonerman]

Herman didn't read the book, his analogy is completely wrong. Not even sure he watched the entire movie

Tom Herman can't read.

 

[Jeremiahxyz]

So he only knows how to write or post, but can't read whats he writing or posting.
Man that is one wierd dude.