“I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you’re unprepared. Pressure is self-inflicted. Pressure is self-doubt when you’re unprepared. We’re prepared for this job. We’re prepared for success at this job. We’re prepared for adversity in this job. I don’t feel any sense of pressure at all.”
*mic drop*
Seriously, Herman jumped on the answer to that question like he was starving junkyard dog being given a freshly cooked ham hock.
I didn’t realize until he said it that it was exactly what needed to be said about this program as he takes over. The mentally weak stuff has to stop. Frankly, the more he spoke, the more I realized just how much of a mini-Urban Meyer Texas suddenly has on its hands.
That’s a good thing. This is a program that has needed a little more Urban/Nick in it for about the last seven seasons. It needs methodical. It needs unbroken confidence. It needs to be prepared at every angle.
This won’t be the wing it and fling it program that Charlie Strong ran for three years.
“The blueprint works,” Herman said with full confidence.
Finally, a blueprint.
