The ESPN analyst explains why he got so emotional after the Buckeyes won the national championship.
“Ally, my wife, faced some stuff,” he said.
“It’s been a tough year for me behind the scenes.
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My wife got diagnosed with breast cancer, you know, (our family dog)Ben dies.
It was just a lot of emotion, and when you do what we do, you endure.”
Herbstreit said his wife was in the booth with him while he covered the game.
“It was almost like a perfect storm for me,” Herbstreit explained.
He noted that their jobs put them under a microscope for all the world to see.
