Hoke & ESPN Personality Share Sports Agent
At 12:30 of the Part 1 of the Dan Lebatard Radio Show (Local Miami Hour), Dan reveals the following.
Tl:dr version: Dan revealed his radio team are working sans contract with ESPN right now because Dan's agent, who is also Brady Hoke's agent, has to workout Brady's contract first.
I tried to be as faithful to Dan's graciously loosed lipped podcast as possible.
Per Dan Lebatard: "See there are some fires that need to be taken care of with priority. For example my agent right now, my agent, we're at the end of our deal here [Lebatard Show contract with ESPN]we have a lot of people, uh, that are, that are in troublesome times here, there are basically a bunch of people working here [Lebatard Show on ESPN] without contracts and my agent has not been able to handle it [new Lebatard contract with ESPN] because he's been busy with his client Brady Hoke. So... he is dealing with his calamity and our calamity will be after that calamity."
At 25:10 of same podcast Lebatard further reveals "... and my agent is busy negotiating Brady Hoke's demise over in Michigan.. That whole thing feels bad, man..."
Leave it to Lebatard to be a little loose with inside info.
If there was ever a direct confirm that things are happening with Brady's contract, I would say that this is pretty [interesting] confim.
Way to go Lebatard. I am sure your agent won't be bringing up ANY other client matters again.
October 1st, 2014 at 8:47 AM ^
October 1st, 2014 at 8:54 AM ^
I know it's the comments are a long read, but Lebatard said his agent, who is Hoke's agent, couldn't negotiate Lebatard's contract with ESPN (employment) until Hoke's business was finished first.
Agree that certain agents handle certain items, but this is about employment not PR.
October 1st, 2014 at 9:03 AM ^
LeBetard's info may not be all that recent either. Contracts take a while to hammer out, even when they are essentially extensions. I doubt LeBetard's contract expired this week, meaning that his side of the process has been known about it for a while. I highly doubt his agent told him this week, "Sorry, I have to stop working on your contract with ESPN right now, I have to work out Brady's situation now that Saturday happened."
More likely, the agent informed him months ago, knowing that Hoke was coming into an unstable year with a contract negotiation coming at the end. If LeBetard is in good standing with ESPN, I'm sure both parties felt like his contract would take care of itself in time.
October 1st, 2014 at 11:12 AM ^
Probably not. If you actually listen to Dan's show regularly then you would know that that doesn't mean anything definitive. While it may be true, he wouldn't be breaking news like that.
October 1st, 2014 at 4:26 PM ^
You can't support your claim that the guy who would
1. put up billboards in Akron to mock LeBron,
2. allow his Baseball Hall of Fame vote to be detemined by a Deadspin poll,
Not drop a hint re: Hoke to get attention. Your proffer makes no sense.