QB Kirk Herbstreit (ESPN Analyst)

[osugrad21]

CPD

Kirk Herbstreit?s 17 1/2 -hour day



Sunday, November 04, 2007

Herbstreit?s typical day on Saturday?s during college football season:
6:30 a.m. ? Wake up.
7:30-8:30 a.m. ? Start of hour-long production meeting.




Cont...

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by osugrad21

CPD

Kirk Herbstreit?s 17 1/2 -hour day



Sunday, November 04, 2007

Herbstreit?s typical day on Saturday?s during college football season:
6:30 a.m. ? Wake up.
7:30-8:30 a.m. ? Start of hour-long production meeting.




Cont...

Waaa ...

My day is soooo busy jetting all over the country to watch college football games and getting paid millions for doing it! You have no idea how tough my job is!!!11!!

Waaa ...

[Buckskin86]

ESPN's Herbstreit on inaccurate Miles-U-M report: I will never gather news and report again
December 4, 2007

ESPN and ABC analyst Kirk Herbstreit talked with WDFN-AM Monday about his erroneous report. Herbstreit reported Saturday morning, citing an anonymous source, that coach Les Miles was taking the job at Michigan. Miles agreed to stay with LSU on Saturday.

On if he was surprised that he became the biggest name in sports last Saturday:

I wasn?t real comfortable with it that?s for sure. I leave it to the professionals to break stories, guys like you and the media and guys that are a little bit more comfortable in that role.

On not being a breaking news guy

I would much rather talk about what teams are doing on the field. One thing I can assure you, you will never see me gathering news and reporting information ever again.

On why he came out with the story

Honestly, the best way to describe it is by the time Friday came around I had some information that trust me on this it was very accurate base on not a source but someone that was going to be involved in the situation. I made the mistake, I guess telling the ESPN bosses it and in doing that they are journalists and they said you?ve got an obligation to talk about that and go with it. You guys know, I as a former player really pride myself on my relationships with coaches and players and just not real comfortable in breaking stories, leave that up to Pat Forde and the others to do that stuff. When they talked about that and really thought it over and over because it was going to happen they didn?t want to get beat on the story and they suggested that I go with it.

ESPN's Herbstreit on inaccurate Miles-U-M report: I will never gather news and report again

[WolverineTX]

ESPN's Herbstreit on WDFN (audio)

I think it's ironic that people from LSU think that I deliberately tried to create a disturbance for them to get ready for an SEC title game, and Michigan people think that I actually tried to prevent them from getting their coach. Are you out of your minds?

It's a good listen.

[osugrad21]

DFP

ESPN's Herbstreit on inaccurate Miles-U-M report: I will never gather news and report again

December 5, 2007
ESPN and ABC analyst Kirk Herbstreit talked with WDFN-AM Monday about his erroneous report. Herbstreit reported Saturday morning, citing an anonymous source, that coach Les Miles was taking the job at Michigan. Miles agreed to stay with LSU on Saturday.
On if he was surprised that he became the biggest name in sports last Saturday:

I wasn?t real comfortable with it that?s for sure. I leave it to the professionals to break stories, guys like you and the media and guys that are a little bit more comfortable in that role.

On not being a breaking news guy

I would much rather talk about what teams are doing on the field. One thing I can assure you, you will never see me gathering news and reporting information ever again.

On why he came out with the story

Honestly, the best way to describe it is by the time Friday came around I had some information that trust me on this it was very accurate base on not a source but someone that was going to be involved in the situation. I made the mistake, I guess telling the ESPN bosses it and in doing that they are journalists and they said you?ve got an obligation to talk about that and go with it. You guys know, I as a former player really pride myself on my relationships with coaches and players and just not real comfortable in breaking stories, leave that up to Pat Forde and the others to do that stuff. When they talked about that and really thought it over and over because it was going to happen they didn?t want to get beat on the story and they suggested that I go with it.

Cont...

On how people think he?s biased because he?s a Buckeye

One of these years people are going to realize, I went to school at Ohio State, I was a captain at Ohio State, my kids love the Buckeyes. ? I?m an analyst. I don?t care, I really don?t care. I don?t have a hard time removing myself from Ohio State. I don?t have a hard time saying great things about USC or Michigan or Florida State. To me, I am evaluating teams and players. I don?t see things through the eyes of a scarlet and grey former player. I know that is really hard for people to grasp but anybody?s whose listened to be the past 12 years, I really don?t care. ? My loyalty is to ESPN and ABC and being an analyst, not to Ohio State.

[osugrad21]

Ohio St. posted this on BN...good stuff:

Link

January 01, 2008

Breaking News: Herbstreit, Musburger Brawl after Rose Bowl

by Trey Bradley (Senior Writer)
Call it a Rose Bowl Rumble.
Just minutes after ABC's broadcast of Tuesday's Illinois-USC game, Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger had to be separated by stadium security during a brief but violent skirmish.
Apparently, the dispute centered around who had a bigger man-crush on USC head coach Pete Carroll.
Musburger, the senior member of the broadcast duo, spent most of the four-hour telecast gushing over Carroll's forays into Southern California ghettos in search of new running backs. Herbstreit matched his play-by-play man with a compliment-to-commercial ratio that made Carroll blush during his postgame press conference.
At one point during the game, Musberger observed, "Carroll could probably start 11 song girls and still find a way to beat the Illini."
Herbstreit countered, "Heck Brent, look at him. He's hot enough to be a song girl!"
Sources close to Bleacher Report tell us the scuffle broke out as both broadcasters rushed to the elevator in an effort to intercept Carroll in the parking lot.
ABC sideline reporter Lisa Salters, who interviewed the USC head coach following a 49-17 win, confirmed that both Herbstreit and Musburger offered to trade assignments with her before the broadcast.
ABC declined comment for this story.

[LitlBuck]

Originally Posted by osugrad21

Ohio St. posted this on BN...good stuff:

Link

January 01, 2008

Breaking News: Herbstreit, Musburger Brawl after Rose Bowl
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Wouldn't surprise me

[Jaxbuck]

My loyalty is to ESPN and ABC and being an analyst, not to Ohio State.

Straight from Herbie's mouth(in one of the rare instances it wasn't filled with cock).

Between that and the absolutely shameless act he put on yesterday there really isn't much else to say on the topic. He is the personification, the walking embodiment of the Cooper era to me. Small wonder there is a rift bewteen Herbie and the current staff.

[tibor75]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

Straight from Herbie's mouth(in one of the rare instances it wasn't filled with cock).

Between that and the absolutely shameless act he put on yesterday there really isn't much else to say on the topic. He is the personification, the walking embodiment of the Cooper era to me. Small wonder there is a rift bewteen Herbie and the current staff.

Eh, big deal. The fact of the matter is that Herbie is far better as an analyst than he ever was as a football player. if he never became an analyst, his Buckeye career would be long forgotten. When your crowning moment is a touchdown pass on 4th down to tie Michigan (no Gordon, it was not one of the greatest wins in OSU history), your legacy is nothing special.

Kirk should be more loyal to his employers rather than to OSU - they pay him a lot more.

[billmac91]

Originally Posted by tibor75

Eh, big deal. The fact of the matter is that Herbie is far better as an analyst than he ever was as a football player. if he never became an analyst, his Buckeye career would be long forgotten. When your crowning moment is a touchdown pass on 4th down to tie Michigan (no Gordon, it was not one of the greatest wins in OSU history), your legacy is nothing special.

Kirk should be more loyal to his employers rather than to OSU - they pay him a lot more.

I don't even think he's that good as an analyst....far better than guys like May and Holtz, but then again May and Holtz rarely do games. Herbie missies intricacies in games many other analysts don't. He regularly makes ridiculous predictions and backs up those predicitions with terrible reasoning. I think he gets a pass most of the time because he's articulate, which is far more than most of the college gameday staff can say.

[tibor75]

Originally Posted by billmac91

I don't even think he's that good as an analyst....far better than guys like May and Holtz, but then again May and Holtz rarely do games. Herbie missies intricacies in games many other analysts don't. He regularly makes ridiculous predictions and backs up those predicitions with terrible reasoning. I think he gets a pass most of the time because he's articulate, which is far more than most of the college gameday staff can say.

Even if Herbie isn't that good of an analyst, it is still far better than his performance as an OSU QB.

[Mr. Clutch]

Originally Posted by billmac91

I don't even think he's that good as an analyst....far better than guys like May and Holtz, but then again May and Holtz rarely do games. Herbie missies intricacies in games many other analysts don't. He regularly makes ridiculous predictions and backs up those predicitions with terrible reasoning. I think he gets a pass most of the time because he's articulate, which is far more than most of the college gameday staff can say.

I will give you that for sure. Herbie is extremely articulate, and I believe he is an excellent analyst. Personally, I would much rather listen to him than Lee Corso. He is by far the best analyst on College Gameday.

[billmac91]

Originally Posted by tibor75

Even if Herbie isn't that good of an analyst, it is still far better than his performance as an OSU QB.

very true.

[Jagdaddy]

Originally Posted by tibor75

Eh, big deal. The fact of the matter is that Herbie is far better as an analyst than he ever was as a football player. if he never became an analyst, his Buckeye career would be long forgotten. When your crowning moment is a touchdown pass on 4th down to tie Michigan (no Gordon, it was not one of the greatest wins in OSU history), your legacy is nothing special.

Kirk should be more loyal to his employers rather than to OSU - they pay him a lot more.

Yeah. IMO, only one other QB, who I'll refer to only as "the white Reggie Ball" stands between him and the title "worst OSU starting QB I can remember."

[OCBucksFan]

Originally Posted by tibor75

Even if Herbie isn't that good of an analyst, it is still far better than his performance as an OSU QB.

I don't reckon you'll find a lot of people disagreeing with that statement.


Doesn't make you any less of a douchebag though.