OT - Digger Phelps to Retire from ESPN

Posbang?

What's he gonna do with all those highlighters?

Lou Holtz with him?

Would love to see them clean quite a few out.

That being said I was a little surprised by Billas on SVP show today.

Scott or Ryan brought up Kentucky vs Fab5 and Billas pretty much stopped them and said the Fab 5 was better like it shouldn't have even been asked. Pretty cool to hear that and surprising from Jay although I thought he has come around on Michigan a little bit over he got over his buddy being fired.

Holtz and corso follow.

Was he ever offered another  head coaching job after Notre Dame?

Staples will mourn the drop in profits stemming from his highlighter purchases.

I vividly recall Digger doing the UM/UCLA tourney game in 93 and openly rooting for the Fab Five to come back from a 20 pt deficit. He called them the dream team of college basketball and said it was their destiny to win the title. He didn't hate UM for at least one night.

The "This announcer hates our team meme" is one of the most tired things about fandom.

I bet every team has many fans who think Digger hated their team and are rejoicing.   Whomever his replacement is will similarly have opinions.  These opinions will sometimes be true, sometimes turn out to be wrong, but all of them will be taken as slights by some group of fans.

I've learned to ignore all talking heads and instead read great analytical pieces online.

Hurray internet!

and take your hack matching tie and marker routine with you!

but might be the worst analyst of all time.

His imperical evidence that a team will win a tourney game begins and ends with, "I just think they're on a mission."

Not a fan of Digger, but don't think he's as bad as Holtz.

Good. I always hated digger and his anti-michigan attitude along with basically everything else .

to bad rubbish.

Digger Phelps was the biggest turd in terms of ESPN analysts. I mean, for fuck's sake, the other guys on camera with him made him the laughingstock on the regular. Good riddance.

And his highlighter. To hell with Notre Dame.

ESPN didn't renew Digger Phelps' contract and let him go.

Digger Phelps's deal was not renewed by ESPN so it will be interesting if he unretires for another network in the future.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) April 8, 2014

 

Thank god. Finally. Izzo butt suck.