Jemele Hill soon to be done at ESPN
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-jemele-hill-leave-espn-021846027.html
Out at the beginning of September.
Bye.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
IBD. This won’t go well.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
Yeah, but it started out great.
Buh-bye Jemele and I'll taste your Spartan tears on 10/20/18.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
This will go well. In fact, this is a pos-bang! We need positive representatives from the state of Michigan. Jemele Hill is not one of them.
August 26th, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^
....neither did most of her shows.
August 26th, 2018 at 2:53 PM ^
Bye Felicia!
August 26th, 2018 at 12:52 PM ^
New AD at MSU. Heard that on Grand Rapids Freenet when I logged on to play Tradewars.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
Good riddance. Hopefully she turns up nowhere.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:07 PM ^
I'll bet $1 that her next stop is one of the 24 hour cable news networks. Nothing sports-related at all.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^
I could see this.....
August 26th, 2018 at 3:33 PM ^
Yeah, I heard they were looking for more camera angles to work in, so she's a shoe in for one of the camera operators.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
Lol, so the whole, "Being an openly racist host on a major TV network" schtick finally stopped working for her?!? That's too bad.....
August 26th, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
A black person who points out racism isn't a racist, you backward-ass hillbilly.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:09 PM ^
Lets not turn this into a race debate...If so please leave......
August 26th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
Woman: So, Long Dong Silver, I bet I can take your entirety in my mouth.
LongDong: OK, here goes.
Woman: Deeper
LongDong: OK
Woman: Deeper
LongDong: OK
Woman: 'ats enuff
August 26th, 2018 at 1:11 PM ^
Interesting response.
What would one be if they called a Chinese man an illiterate rice farmer?
August 26th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
I'm offended.
August 26th, 2018 at 3:38 PM ^
She is a race baiter.
August 26th, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
She's a master baiter.
August 26th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
I can't necessarily say i wouldn't let her give me a handy.
August 26th, 2018 at 5:47 PM ^
Uh....Mackbru can't be serious about Jemele Hill, she's wildly out of line and is all the bad things mentioned in this post.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:08 PM ^
You’re wrong on two counts, the second being it works perfectly well for the top rated cable *ahem* news network
August 26th, 2018 at 1:11 PM ^
So this is how things end badly.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:56 PM ^
2.5 million dollars to be fired. Hopefully ESPN learned their lesson.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^
I think the McMurphy story was more the lesson. You can waste $2.5 million on a talking head show no one watches and it's just wasted money. No one cares. But sports fans still want ESPN because of the sports and those sports fans also want sports news. You can have 40 solid, experienced reporters for $2.5 million.
ESPN is still a money-making machine. It will be fine, as long as it doesn't start losing important rights packages or it stops trying to deliver sports news.
Definitely ESPN made a mistake in reading the natural SC decline and thought the news channel approach of featuring controversial talking heads was the right way to go. But there's still plenty of time to refocus and remember that the star of ESPN is represented by the S in its title - not in any individual personality.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:33 PM ^
I think the situation is mostly about that SC misread creating the outsized contract and role/expectations.
Most people come (came at this point?) to SC for the highlights and stayed for the highlights, appreciating a good host when they got one. ESPN used to think people came for the highlights and stayed for the hosts. Now that the highlights are everywhere they try the personality driven come/stay for the hosts approach and that’s not it when half the TVs tuned to your program are in bars on mute.
On the other bit I don’t know that ESPN is learning from McMurphy. New prez is kissing the NFL ring because they’re mad about reporting on concussions, CTE and the protest stuff we won’t go into here. Could see them responding to the PSU, MSU and OSU fan backlash over actual reporting by doing even less investigative reporting. Hope I’m wrong.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^
Your first paragraph is spot on. I realize 2.5 million is a small figure to ESPN but even money making machines can fail. The network should have sent her packing with nothing just like CEOs who destroy companies should get paid nothing to leave. I never have understood the need to pay millions for failure and I never will.
If the contract did not have a performance clause and thus the reason for the payout then ESPN should alter their future contracts with on-air talent.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
Good...Politics and sports don't mix.......Getting tired of it.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:05 PM ^
Got some news for you...the mix ain't going away any time soon. If anything, expect more of it.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^
That doesn't mean I have to like it.....According to ESPN president, there will no longer be any politics discussed on their Network from here on out. He says 'Its not our jobs".
August 26th, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
Until they show highlights of those poor NFL players who seem to only protest on the NFL's dime.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
Only if people are stupid enough to allow it.
August 26th, 2018 at 5:16 PM ^
Why don’t politics and sports mix? I have never understood this cliche. What does it even mean?
August 26th, 2018 at 5:58 PM ^
Football Trumps politics.
August 26th, 2018 at 8:46 PM ^
Thing is politics and sports always has been intertwined and won't go away anytime soon. It has been like it forever
August 26th, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
I will say this....
As much as I am shocked to say it, at least she had a somewhat non-homer response to the MSU scandal. More than we've received from Herbie on OSU.
It really says something when Hill is the rational one.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:03 PM ^
You have to give Herbie a little slack. He seems to be wading in slowly to the right take. OSU is a different animal and death threats to his family are a consideration.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:05 PM ^
I've wanted to see that, but I'm not. I've always had a moderate level of respect for his ability to at least represent himself as providing an honest and professional viewpoint.
Can you point me in the direction of where he's starting to recognize it?
August 26th, 2018 at 1:25 PM ^
Herbie said that after he read the detailed report he had questions (i think his actual words were stronger). I think it had to do with the deleted emails and more. I don’t have the link. It was a couple of days ago.
August 26th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
OK, when I read Herbie's statements it was more that he was confused about the investigation itself and not that he had any concerns about Meyer, but it could have been the context of the report I read it in and not his actual words. Glad to hear otherwise.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
His commentary during GameDay yesterday was reasonably measured. It wasn't the full-throated condemnation the entire planet outside Ohio is providing, but he wasn't Joey Galloway either
August 26th, 2018 at 2:15 PM ^
Locally in Cbus, Bruce Hooley has been much more nuanced and careful in his reactions this time around. He got run out of town to Cleveland after not toeing OSU line with Tressel. Took 6-7 years to get back here.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
Agree. I definitely appreciated her takes on the MSU scandal. Seems like the right call for her to leave. She clearly wants to do more political stuff (her prerogative) and ESPN wants to appear as neutral. She probably went a little far w/ her political comments, but TBH, that never bothered me as much as the other stuff. She would refer to UM as "scUM" and make other comments that more or less embodied the typical Sparty stereotype.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
Well, bye.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^
Pride comes before the fall
August 26th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
Where have I heard that before????
August 26th, 2018 at 7:25 PM ^
The most punchable face ever.