So ... because he is smart and graduated he can't be a dick?
I know on the field stuff goes on, doesn't bother me, and yes he is, obviously smart, but yes, he is a punk.
The most famous example is the Crabtree comments after the last years conference game, but that didn't bother me at all. However his constant referral to that event even 4 weeks after the game did. But there have been interviews I have seen or heard he is just an ass. He is known as "The Intelligent Jerk". Now true, most times when I hear him he is cordial and pleasant and blah, blah, blah, but he is also just the typical "I am the greatest ever" punk who never lets an opportunity to brag pass by.
When he is in a safe setting he can turn on the charm, part of his intelligence, but in the spur of the moment King Sherman can show up and start blasting his coach (Dude, it has been 3 years, let it go) or start telling interviewers how he is better than anyone (which he isn't).
Even in the classic Skip Bayless interview (And I HATE Skip Bayless with a passion) he went below his normal classless self. I was so hoping that Sherman would lay into that a-hole Bayless like he deserved but then, when he did, all I could do is cringe and think "Dude? WTF? Too far." Telling Skip Bayless he has "Never accomplished anything" (Yeah, okay, something a punk would say as it is not at all accurate, just a way to get a "Sherman sound bite") and then this classic gem said to Bayless "I'm better at life than you". Dude, just shut the hell up. I want you to blast Skip Bayless for the stuff he has said and done, but you are attacking the man in just a childish, stupid way. Even Stephen A. Smith was rolling his eyes.
Skip - "Let's not get personal, Do you think you are better than Revis right now?"
Punk Sherman - "I'm better than you"
Any person that can make me feel sorry for Bayless, is a person I can't stomach!!!
And in-case anyone missed it, or have forgotten, here is what Sherman truly is ...
But, of course, none of us on the outside know the man, that is what he will say and that is true so ...