OT - Good news! Chris Carter is out at ESPN
HOF Buckeye and fall-guy advocate Chris Carter will no longer be contributing to ESPN's god-awful NFL coverage. Ray Lewis is also out, which frees up his time to help his son defend against the sexual assault charges that were filed against him last week. If his son's lawyers are half as good as his dad's, he should be all set.
Taking their places are Randy Moss and Charles Woodson, which is a significant improvement, which isn't saying much. It's nice to see Charles transition from the NFL to TV, before returning to AA as Harbaugh's DB coach. Thanks for getting something right for a change, ESPN!
Wasn't Coke Head and Murderer a Fox show a few years back?
Yes, it was. It came on just after "Greg the Bunny" and just before "America's Got Herpes!"
hey i liked greg the bunny...
Until Greg got herpes...
Coke Head and Murdrer??? So three people were let go....
I hope he's next.
We can only hope
He's the one I want gone most.
Taking off any Michigan homer hat I may have, I just can not see any redeeming merit to him as an analyst. None.
There are Buckeye broadcasters and analysts with merit, whether we like it or not. Joey Galloway is not one of them.
maybe herbie? i know i'm a minority on him and i don't listen to him much, but i think he's o.k.
Ya I would say Herbstreit is actually decent, even when discussing Michigan he always tries to stay impartial. He comes off as pretty knowledgable on air analysis
As long as it is still there....
Joey is only 2nd worst.
whiney voice and is too dam opinionated and comes off as a know it all.
I like Spielman and Herbie.
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ESPN is bleeding money and has to cut costs so they're dumping talent.
Dumping shitty hot-take analysts. Just thought I would touch that up a bit for you.
Yeah not so much dumping talent as say, flushing the toilet ...all these former players thrown on TV to give some sort of 'insight' balanced against that of the Syracuse nerd sitting next to him ..
Guess they're deciding to return to crappily paid sports journalists?
Exception proves the rule...
Heard he is going to NBC.
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Now that people can subcribe to Hulu, NFLX, AMZN Prime, etc., they are starting to cut the cord. ESPN is losing subscribers. An industry stat is that only 20% of people are actually interested in sports on TV, but it is still one of the only things that people want/need to watch live, which is why ESPN is about 1/3rd of the cable bill.
is hand off for them. We love him deeply, but he can rub the opposition the wrong way out there
3 hall of famers and Ryan Leaf. Man that Heisman competition was stacked!
Yeah, but Moss grows on Wood, son (or is it daughter?)
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Would Charles Woodson be any better? That guy has had trouble with the English language from Day One. He can barely stammer out a sentence, and I don't think he is capable of anything more, and probably not as much, as the guy he is replacing.
Who here hasn't had trouble with the English language on Day 1?
EDIT: This was in response to a now-deleted comment from Sean Ornery who doesn't think Woodson has command of the English language and won't do any better than Chris Carter.
Sean Ornery is a shadowbanned user who exists now only in the vacuum of the app. Why he continues to sully the comments on the app is beyond me, but apparently he still wants to have some sort of MGoPresence.
As a reminder to everyone, the app is unmoderated and there is no way to do it, so in the event you should want to point out the comments of someone on the app for potential moderation, myself and the other mods can only moderate people on the site itself.
truthbtold
This guy always gets me on the app. I'll read a comment from him and write one or two angry sentences in reply, only to realize I am responding to a deleted troll and my comment would just confuse the desktop's version of the thread. Is there no way to wipe users off both versions?
The tradeoff is they know they've been banned and many then immediately make new accounts. My focus is keeping the website clean of trolls, so that's an easy decision from my perspective.
I'm happy there are no koala posting bots (yet). The koala dance bots are bad enough.
And yet Stephan Smith continues to draw a multi-million dollar paycheck...
Well....if you're new in town and want to get totally murdered....
Oh. Sorry. Wrong Stephan.
The guy everybody hates, yet still pays attention to. Human click-bait.
As for Cris Carter......now he can finally put to use that-- The Ohio State University education.
Isn't the headline that Woodson is coming and not that Carter is going? At least at MGoBlog that's the headline.