As a journalist, I never like to give personal anecdotes in my stories. I pride myself in objectivity and hard news.
But, in the words of the esteemed Marshall professor Dan Hollis: there’s always an exception.
Let’s go back to 2014, when I was an 18-year-old (admittedly) cocky freshman at Marshall. I vehemently questioned the old school, t-shirt wearing man with a southern West Virginia drawl as he began his tenure as Herd hoops head coach. He didn’t care what he said into a microphone (obviously, he still doesn’t), who heard it, or how the media interpreted it.