OT: Lou Holtz is Out at ESPN
They're calling it a "mutual" parting of the ways. I don't think it was "mutual."
http://fansided.com/2015/04/12/lou-holtz-and-espn-agree-to-part-ways/
April 12th, 2015 at 10:53 PM ^
Not really. He was just taking a nap.
April 12th, 2015 at 11:03 PM ^
April 12th, 2015 at 11:05 PM ^
Rece Davis is probably out as well as he is taking over College Gameday from Fowler.
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April 12th, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
So this is when we find out if there is indeed a second spitter.
April 13th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
There was - on that gravelly road!
That was a great, great episode.
April 12th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^
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April 12th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^
Domers would probably prefer to hear him doing color commentary over Mike Mayock.
April 12th, 2015 at 11:38 PM ^
I wonder how the University of Illinoise feels about this.
April 12th, 2015 at 11:38 PM ^
I'm sad, but also happy. That's the way I feel about Lou Holtz.
April 12th, 2015 at 11:42 PM ^
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April 12th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^
Apologies for the accidental early post on the app. Couldn't figure out how to edit it.
I was thinking the same thing. Make comments about his analysis but to attack him personally is just bush league. Most of the people making fun of him will be old and senile too one day. Knock it off.
April 13th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
Meh, I haven't attacked him personally (in this thread at least), but as he personally was a dick to me when I was a kid the few times I met him or at least was around him, I have no qualms with people "dragging him through the mud."
April 12th, 2015 at 11:50 PM ^
He was entertaining but the ridiculous partisanship did get in the way of otherwise enjoying him.
That was just part of the shtick. I enjoyed it, along with the rest of his routine. He would have been annoying had he any expectation of being taken seriously with that stuff.
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April 13th, 2015 at 12:04 AM ^
1. I agree with the folks saying Mark May should go as well. What a self-important blowhard.
2. Trickeration. I hate that word. It's not even a real word. Maybe with Rece moving he'll grow up a little and start using real words.
3. Just let Herbstreit predict games he's calling. What's the big deal? Is someone really going to be offended or upset because he predicted USC to beat Oregon State and that somehow is going to affect how he calls the game? Cumong man. How about the fact that he went to Ohio State and IS ALLOWED TO CALL OHIO STATE GAMES?!? Now that's a conflict of interest. Instead, they pretend like they are looking out for the fans and being ethical by not allowing him to predict the g-dam game. Drives me nuts.
April 13th, 2015 at 12:24 AM ^
Did you have the same problem with Bob Griese calling Michigan games?
It is completely the same. The person I was replying to said having Herbstreit calling a game, since he went to school there, is a conflict of interest.
Which is laughable because Herbie calls it absolutely down the middle on national TV (his radio show is another matter but I don't give a shit about that). But I digress.
So, if it is a conflict of interest to broadcast a game with ties to one of the participants, it is completely a conflict of interest if your son is the starting QB and you're calling the game.
Whether or not Herbie annoys you is not what I'm debating. The conflict of interest is. I find it curious people people are okay with someone with Michigan ties to be on the national stage but Ohio ties are a conflict of interest. Sorry, but you cannot have it both ways -- even if Bob only called 1 game (which he didn't). A conflict of interest is a conflict of interest regardless of the number of times it occurs.
I really couldn't care less. Bob Griese was a great color guy, and Brian is becoming one himself. Herbie is great. I think Spielman is excellent. Anything that means one less idiot in the booth, I'll take, even if they're calling a game for their alma mater, or have a kid on the field, etc.
I don't care where people went to school. I care that they notice subtle but important things that happen on the field and point them out. I think Herbie is pretty good at this, and Spielman is fantastic at it.
April 13th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
outside of whatever BS went down with Les Miles in 2007 (which I don't think Herbstreit did intentionally) Herbstreit works as hard as anyone to keep his Buckeye partisonship under wraps when he is broadcasting games. He's very fair IMO.
Spielman lets it through a little more IMO but he does an excellent job as well so I don't really mind it.
April 13th, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^
April 13th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
is with them not letting him predict the games. I only pointed out the obvious conflict of interest to show the hypocritical nature of ESPN. It's fine for them in one instance (letting him call the game) but not in another (letting him make a prediction.) I said, let him make the prediction. I didn't say, don't let him call the game. Let him call the game if he's the best option and he's capable of overcoming the inherit bias, which he (and Bob Griese) is, but the same cannot be said of all announcers (I'm looking at you Jay Bilas.)
April 13th, 2015 at 12:11 AM ^
the weekend
April 13th, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^
Thufferin Thuccotash!
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Or how Notre Dame plays the toughest schedule in the country because Boston College, Purdue, and Syracuse are a lot tougher than they appear on paper.
Lou Holtz
Lou and David Schoenfield (aka habitual Tiger & Miguel Cabrera basher) were my least two favorite ESPN employees. Thankfully, I only have to put up with one degenerate now.
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