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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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ESPiN driving scheduling.

"This past December, Miami, Florida and Florida Citrus Sports were approached by ESPN, who had the College Football 150th organization's support (the entity overseeing the upcoming season-long celebration), to explore interest in moving the Camping World Kickoff game in Orlando to August 24 as part of a special kick off day celebrating the sports 150th anniversary season," a joint statement from Miami, Florida, ESPN and Florida Citrus Sports.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...a-approval-to-move-rivalry-game-up-to-week-0/
 
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Report: ESPN scraps BoogerMobile

ESPN hasn’t announced who will replace Jason Witten on the Monday Night Football crew with play-by-play announcer Joe Tessitore and sideline reporter Lisa Salters. But the sports network has decided to scrapthe BoogerMobile, the sideline crane Booger McFarland sat atop most of last season, Michael McCarthy of The Sporting News reports.
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It was a ridiculous idea and surprisingly, ESPN isn’t going to continue it. Who’d have thought a giant moving obstruction, always directly in front of the action, that you have to put a tv on the back of for people to see what they paid to see was a bad idea?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/03/07/report-espn-scraps-boogermobile/
 
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https://thebiglead.com/2019/04/04/stephen-a-smith-espn-salary/

The latest contract rumors in sports media to swirl relate to Tony Romo and Stephen A. Smith. And both involve the two media stars inking deals worth around $10 million per year. To no surprise, the report involving Smith caused an unpleasant reaction. Which, to use his word, is asinine. As much as most hate to fathom it, Smith and those in his class are as valuable as ever.

He has been on top of the sports media landscape for at least five years and is one of the few talents in the business to make a significant difference on linear television in 2019. Another is his former debate partner Skip Bayless, whose departure caused at one point a nearly 35 percent ratings decline to their timeslot. This led to ESPN moving First Take to the main channel, essentially killing ESPN2’s relevance. A Smith departure from ESPN could create a scenario that nobody would’ve ever seen coming just two years ago: ESPN routinely losing to another personality-driven sports show head-to-head.

Smith is going to have options. The two that come to mind, if he opts to leave ESPN, are FS1 and Turner (now with AT&T). Bayless provided FS1 a major boost in rating and eclipsed the 200k mark numerous times during this past football season. If Fox could reunite Bayless and Smith, ESPN would be in real danger of losing to them from 9:30-noon daily. Not to mention, the increased ratings would provide The Herd with a better lead-in. Even if Fox didn’t pair Smith and Bayless together, Smith seemingly could match, or even top, Undisputed‘s ratings at another time during the day and take away from whatever ESPN has airing head-to-head at that point.

It would be a similar story with Turner. While they don’t currently have an all-sports channel, they could cause a major headache to both ESPN and FS1 if they were to bring in Smith. They could utilize TNT or TBS as a vehicle for Smith. Could Smith, who is known for saying he is more of a night person, have success this time around hosting a nightly sports show? Say, against one of ESPN’s most valued assets in Scott Van Pelt at midnight? Could they add a third morning sports debate show to the guide? Turner also could promote him with occasional appearances on CNN.

It also would not be much of a challenge for him to continue radio somewhere if that is still a desire. AT&T already licenses out Dan Patrick’s and Rich Eisen’s radio shows to Fox Sports Radio on Premiere Networks. Surely a return to SiriusXM while doing television with Turner is a possibility.

Being the television draw that Smith is, taking his talents to a streaming service like DAZN or Amazon doesn’t make much sense unless there is a shockingly high amount of cord-cutters in the next two years.

Believe it or not, as powerful as ESPN is, they don’t have a person who can replace what he brings. A daunting task would exist in replacing him on First Take without seeing a drastic ratings decline. But ESPN wouldn’t use him literally everywhere if they didn’t see a positive impact on other shows. His loss would be damaging to Get Up‘s final hour, their radio network, and to a lesser degree, the many SportsCenters he appears on.

Now, ESPN is equipped to replace him as the “face of ESPN.” Scott Van Pelt, Rachel Nichols, and Dan Le Batard can all be that. And while some would argue their content is better quality, they do not, and cannot move the needle, create the discussion, draw the ratings, or fill the innings like Smith does.

Smith very well could be the most valuable talent in the business. There are counters such as Joe Buck, Van Pelt, Romo, and looking ahead to the digital impact of Big Cat and PFT Commenter. But there is no counter to the fact that he is ESPN’s most valuable asset and will be for the foreseeable future.

This all adds up to a $10 million salary suddenly looking well within reason. The biggest detriment this would cause would be the standard that it would raise. Not only for those on his tier, but also the tier below him. Many in the industry credit big deals for Mike Greenberg, Colin Cowherd, and Skip Bayless as the reason why those in tier 2 received major salary bumps in recent years.

With a few years left, the general consensus is that ESPN will get this done and not let their most valuable piece walk. But it is not a guarantee he stays, and as much as many don’t want to believe it, it would arguably be ESPN’s biggest talent loss ever.
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Jagdaddy said:
The people are who go out of their way to watch Smith and/or Bayless should be shot.
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Seriously why anyone watches either of these asshats is beyond me. They epitomize everything wrong with Sports ahem journalism today....the Lebetard show isn’t far behind...

All that being said, I might actually pay to see a Trump-Smith-Bayless debate or cage match....
 
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colobuck79 said:
I'm probably in the minority, but I would listen to Smith all day long before I would watch/listen a minute of either Greenberg's or Golic's new shows.
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How can you differentiate different kinds of shit? I recognize they're different.....but one you would and one you wouldnt?
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
How can you differentiate different kinds of shit? I recognize they're different.....but one you would and one you wouldnt?
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I think the implicit assumption that he's forced to listen to one or the other, not that he'd choose either otherwise. Similarly, I'd prefer not to eat shit, but if someone put a gun to my head and said eat either the orange dog shit or the grassy horseshit or die, the horseshit's gonna get consumed.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
I think the implicit assumption that he's forced to listen to one or the other, not that he'd choose either otherwise. Similarly, I'd prefer not to eat shit, but if someone put a gun to my head and said eat either the orange dog shit or the grassy horseshit or die, the horseshit's gonna get consumed.
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I dunno man. 24 hours of either SAS or Golic/Greenberg? Let me watch Endgame, season 8 of GoT, then give me the bullet.
 
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SAS says some really stupid shit, but he says enough stuff that's thought-provoking that I enjoy reading it ... but I won't watch through the other crap in order to get to it. That would be like eating a motor-oil sundae just because it's made with Jeni's.
 
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MaxBuck said:
SAS says some really stupid shit, but he says enough stuff that's thought-provoking that I enjoy reading it ... but I won't watch through the other crap in order to get to it. That would be like eating a motor-oil sundae just because it's made with Jeni's.
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The key is "reading it". Listening to him say it out loud, even when it has merit now and again, is the brutal part.
 
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