Before coaching, Tom Herman once got fired from Subway for gorging on pastrami

AP Tom Herman talks to the media during a news conference where he was introduced as Texas' new head NCAA college football coach, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AUSTIN -- Long before he became one of college football's most coveted coaches, Tom Herman was like a lot of us Average Joes.

Granted, he was a lot smarter than most of us, ultimately becoming a Presidential Scholar and California Lutheran University cum laude graduate. But for much of the 1990s Herman was a self-described "awful athlete" wide receiver at a Division III school, uncertain where his life and career paths would lead.

Long before he began making a $5 million base salary at Texas, Herman, like a lot…