OT/Meta-Ish: Adam Jacobi leaves BHGP
Dinosaur Racecars. The last post is here.
If you're into the meta world that is college football blogging, you know there is Cook, there is Hinton, there is Spencer, and there is Jacobi. As of yesterday, Black Heart Gold Pants founder Adam Jacobi is now just a CBS writer. He was hanging around BHGP as kind of an emeritus this year and finally let go the reigns.
It's a rare thing when you find someone who can a.) write, b.) takes his subject matter and journalistic integrity seriously, and c.) takes himself not seriously at all. If you ever waded into the batshit stream of BHGP content you'd find Jacobi's name atop the best of the islands of information (except when he was adding to the batshit). While the cast of Alice in Wonderland (who are admittedly well worth the price of admission on their own) he leaves behind are titans in their own right, I can't help but feel an era has ended now that he's Jacobi of CBS instead of Jacobi of BHGP.
I guess...congratulate and salute the guy. That is all.
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:33 PM ^
Hinton's at Yahoo, Jacobi is at CBS, Holly is at SI, Orson is on ESPN and NBC and getting shoutouts from Scott Van Pelt, Chris Brown is writing for Grantland.
Kind of amazing how quickly the college football bloggers went mainstream. Brian's probably the last really high profile purely-independent one left.
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:41 PM ^
And Spencer Hall. But we'll know the game is really over when LSUfreek is making gifs for espn...
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
Spencer Hall is Orson...
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:50 PM ^
oh, right. What has he done on ESPN?
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:01 PM ^
on their "Road to the Bowls" show or whatever (or will be, not sure if it's aired yet).
The promo has a bunch of people talking about how awesome college football is, including Fowler, Herbie, etc. And then out of nowhere is Orson. Hittin the big time.
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
Not much.
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:51 PM ^
Finkell is Einhorn.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:18 PM ^
Istanbul WAS Constantinople. Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way. #NotAsGoodAsParticleManButDamnClose
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
Now you're just being silly.
1) it is better than particle man
2) It's not really a TMBG song, so it's not really a fair comparison
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
Nothing is better than Particle Man. I'm not a violent person but you deserve to get hit on the head by Triangle Man's frying pan for that comment.
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
this makes me a sad panda
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:08 PM ^
I don't know much about this fellow but if he was behind the theme music for ther BHGP pod cast then he is awesome.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
Many thanks to Brian for not jumping ship because I'm sure he has had a ton of offers. More than likely he knows that he wouldn't have as much fun as he does running this blog.
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:49 PM ^
Or as much poverty!
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
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