It's true Tom can get a wee bit excited. But that's Tom. He's been this way ever since TKR's "The Press Box" when he was on with Chris Gramke and Richard Skinner and Don Weber.
The difference last night was, oh, say the same as Andy Mac talking about Xavier or the Stingers. I believe Tom went to high school at, ahem, Colerain, but, I think his point was logical. It would be like 15-20 years ago and Pat Mancuso from Princeton or Gerry Faust at Moeller would be mentioned.
I will say one thing though, Tom needs to tone the loudness/over modulation into the microphone. Furman had the patent and trademark on that and turned off a lot of people. As someone close to me once said, "you can make a point without yelling".