Urban Meyer takes shot at ESPN 'College GameDay'
Back in 2011, between leaving Florida and taking the Ohio State job, Urban Meyer worked as a college football analyst at ESPN. Now, he doesn’t seem to think too highly of one aspect of ESPN’s college football coverage.
Mike Hall of the Big Ten Network tweeted about a recent interview with Meyer, now an analyst at FOX, and shared a jab Meyer took at his former employer:
At one point talked about this year doing tv, he says “I had fun – turns out folks wanna talk about football, they don’t want to see jumpin’ in lakes or goin on rollercoasters”
ESPN analyst Pac McAfee memorably jumped in a river on “College GameDay” last month:
Last time I allegedly did what I’m about to do I ended up in a jail cell 🗣LETS GOOO @CollegeGameDay pic.twitter.com/bk3FolesBL
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) November 16, 2019
Just interviewed Urban Meyer. At one point talked about this year doing tv, he says “I had fun – turns out folks wanna talk about football, they don’t want to see jumpin’ in lakes or goin on rollercoasters”
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…I feel I may know what he was alluding to.
The man is competitive.— Mike Hall (@BTNMikeHall) December 4, 2019
If Meyer ever works for the folks in Bristol again, it’s safe to assume it won’t be on GameDay.
His segments on Fox Sports where he breaks down schemes, concepts, and tactics are actually really good and very informative. I wish there were more shows like that. I’ve seen a slight increase in such content on the SEC Network, they definitely need more though.
Yes, ESPN would never, ever forgive Meyer for this slight. Lifelong blacklist.
I sort of agree that Game Day has just sort of expanded the brand too much. I’ve kind of had enough of the weepy human interest stories, they can be told elsewhere in the media.
Nothing on ESPN is good anymore…most of the clowns on gameday spend to much time trying to be funny and talking garbage… instead of actually talking football and breaking down games…I’m not a fan of Howard, Herbstreit, or Pollock… though I loved Pollock as a player…he’s just not good on ESPN…but really I haven’t watched ESPN very much in 15 years or more…to much side garbage instead of actually talking about games, for me anyway…glad Urban is happy at fox…hope he stays there…
ESPN stopped being truly about sports the minute Disney bought them and started wrecking the quality sport coverage that they had built on TV and online. Remember when every conference had a section and there were reporters who actually were conference reporters. These days ESPN is scooped more often than being the lead dog…thanks Disney.
Just tape the shows, watch what you like before 11 cst and enjoy !!! Not sure how a lot of the clowns get on there but Matthew M doesn’t have too many friends in Tigerland now, lol. Roll TIGERS !!!
I agree, I don’t even watch game day anymore. Lee Corso is the worst of them all especially at the final pick.