Donal Óg Cusack said earlier in the year that hurling needed 'characters' like Davy Fitzgerald to boost its profile.
At a time of the year when hurling is in danger of being shunted into the margins, Davy is back leading the sports bulletins as he publicly wrestles with whether to leave Wexford for Galway.
"My heart is torn unreal there for the last number of weeks," he told Mid West Radio (he's spreading the word of the game by giving his scoops to radio stations based in Ballyhaunis these days).
In an era of inscrutable and businesslike managers like Jim Gavin and Micheál Donoghue, it might be a jolt to hear a manager spill his guts out about a career decision on local radio but we've come to expect it from Davy.
Not for him the talk of 'taking each game as it comes'. He thinks nothing of having a lash off Jim Bolger or engaging in back-and-forths with TV pundits. Even when he does decide to say nothing in interviews, a la the 2013 semi-final and final, he does so in such a compelling fashion that they still become youtube hits in any event.
Davy stressed that he had "a very special bunch of boys" down in Wexford, though the resigned frankness with which he spoke about logistical headaches will probably not fill the Slaneysiders with confidence.
The rumours out west is that he is likely to link up with his former selector in Clare, Louis Mulqueen, he being the man who had the infamous programme flung at him after one short pass too many early in the 2013 championship.
Fitzgerald and Mulqueen proceeded to lead Clare to an improbable All-Ireland victory that September. The latter is extremely well acquainted with the Galway scene, having managed city club Liam Mellows to their first senior inter-county title in 47 years back in 2017.
Notwithstanding the natural allure of managing a team containing Joe Canning, Conor Whelan and the two Mannions, there is mild surprise that Galway are currently in the position to attract such a showbiz management team.
For Galway, as has been well documented in the past year, are rather strapped at the moment.
The last two All-Ireland hurling champions were well supported by 'sugar-daddies' - the ubiquitous JP McManus in Limerick and Teneo's Declan Kelly in Tipperary.
The latter, a Portroe native like Liam Sheedy, was prominent in the post-All-Ireland celebrations this year. And why not? He really pushed the boat out in 2019, funding an enormous 27-strong backroom team, replete with a sprint coach and a strength and conditioning coach (Cairbre O'Caireallain) who re-located from Belfast to Thurles so he could be on-call for the year.
Given their reportedly awkward financial situation, it was believed that the elders on the Galway county board were inclined to blanch at such spending.
The assumption is that finance must have been sourced from somewhere as the ambitious Davy is not likely to pitch up at a county in the grip of austerity.
Taking the Galway job - if he does - would bring Davy into rare territory. It would be the fourth top tier county he's managed since arriving into the Waterford role in the middle of the 2008 campaign.
Has any other hurling manager been around the houses this much? Babs Keating managed Galway, Tipperary and Offaly (back when they were a Tier 1 county in 1998). He also spent a couple of years over a reasonably competitive Laois team in the mid-90s, though it might be stretching it to call them tier one.
Justin McCarthy is probably the closest though this comparison is complicated by the fact that his coaching career stretches back so long, back to an era when the demarcation between 'trainer' and 'manager' was often rather blurry.
Suffice to say, McCarthy was centrally involved in the preparation of Cork teams for two spells, first in the mid-70s and then the mid-80s, as well as the league-winning Clare team of the late 70s. Latterly, he managed Waterford to three Munster titles in the noughties before his much feted coaching career ended on a sad note, with a poisonous players' strike in Limerick in 2010.
Davy, however, has presided over his spread of counties in a much, much narrower time-frame.
The Sixmilebridge man has built a managerial career unlike any other in hurling.
He assumed the Waterford job within months of retiring from Clare and has been an inter-county manager on a more or less continuous basis since. No championship campaign has he sat out in the intervening years.
In the process, he's already become the first manager to guide teams to both Munster and Leinster titles. Add in the All-Ireland and League titles he won with Clare and we're talking about an unprecedented clean sweep.
Before all that, he led LIT to two Fitzgibbon Cup titles in 2005 and 2007, while still a player with Clare (though in the latter year, he had fallen out with Tony Considine and was sidelined for the championship).
It was at LIT that he linked up with Galway's most gifted player. Joe Canning is known to hold Fitzgerald in high regard as a manager and tactician.
Should he take over at Galway, it would arguably be his most high profile role yet.
It's hard to trump managing your own county when it comes to prestige or importance, but never before will Davy have taken over a county team already packed with All-Ireland medal winners.
Waterford were thought to be on the wane when he took over in 2008, and had not yet contested a final in the modern era. Clare, though they had a sensationally talented group coming on stream, had been also-rans at senior level for the previous half-decade. While Wexford had won nothing significant for well over a decade when he descended on the south-east in late 2016.
He is used to applying his innovative but controversial tactics to insurgent teams who were starting almost from scratch. But Galway, All-Ireland champions two years ago, would represent a rather different type of challenge.
The thought of such a high profile manager matching up with a high profile team is an intriguing possibility ahead of 2020.
Either way, the media can relax. It appears Davy Fitzgerald will still be a vibrant, divisive and energetic presence in the hurling landscape for a while yet.
