He was the reason this program floundered and severely underperformed and was unwilling to change when change was so obviously needed. He was the embodiment of tragic hubris.
Hubris, meet Nemesis. As pride goeth before a fall, so those whom Gods destroy they first make mad. That interview showed me a great deal of remorse in Gary, a sense that he realizes what he
had, how he went off the rails, and how he lost everything through his own stubbornness and intractability.
If he truly hated TCU, and wished to destroy, he certainly wouldn't keep all those mementos up on the walls. Each and every day, like all the rest of us, he deals with the choices he made in the past that he cannot change. He feels the remorse, and is now admitting it. While I believe there will never be a place for him at TCU in any decision-making capacity, there will come a time for reconciliation. Perhaps in another 9 years or so...