Perhaps sports networks in the future will stop making hires that insult your intelligence. Perhaps Meyer will be a different person upon return. And college kids have a lot of smartphones last time I checked.
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You can control some of that as producers and directors, but ask a professional wrestling director about controlling live crowds. Outside of Columbus, I would expect the signage and chants to be brutal toward Meyer. There will be a significant challenge for Shah-Rais and Camera given the show will be on the road this year. The Big Ten is hot, viewership numbers will be up this year, and people are excited about college football. (We’ll see.) The goal will be to soften Meyer up for viewers. Normally, I would say that Meyer will try to win the audience by being self-deprecating about his tenure in Jacksonville, but my college football colleagues at The Athletic tell me he is incapable of that. Look for his on-set colleagues to pay homage to his college success. The executives at Fox Sports like Meyer, they liked his television work, and their concern is to get college football eyeballs on “Big Noon Kickoff.” They believe Meyer will help do that.
Nor is the reporting by The Athletic’s Jayson Jenks and Mike Sando on Meyer’s NFL tenure. What Josh Lambo or Courtney Smith have said about Meyer’s character is not Fox Sports’ concern. The company’s executives have made clear that, in their view, what happened with the Jaguars has no impact on Meyer’s prior broadcast work. It’s been clear for months, as The Athletic reported in April, that Meyer was coming back to Fox Sports after his Jacksonville tenure. The reality is there are far more important problems in America than Urban Meyer returning to a plum sports broadcast job, and I’d be lying to readers if I said I have the same passion for cynical broadcast hires that I had when I first started writing this content. The hire has been an open secret for some time. Fox Sports announced it was bringing back Meyer to its “Big Noon Kickoff” pregame show (in a late afternoon Friday press release in August that, as you can see, underplays the return of a three-time national champion coach). In between, he made a pit stop as a studio analyst for Fox Sports. He was spectacularly successful at Ohio State and a disaster of such epic proportions in the NFL with the Jaguars that any documentary on it would’ve been perfect for Irwin Allen to produce.
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I don’t have to update you on Meyer’s tenure since ESPN. 26 (‘We felt the studio in Bristol was the best place for him given the many storylines and top matchups going on in college football this weekend,’ said an ESPN spokesperson) before the network finally pulled him off its coverage entirely (‘He requested off his studio assignment and we obliged,’ said another spokesperson, highlighting again that Meyer seemed to be in charge here).” He was pulled off the Ohio State- Michigan game on Nov. “Meyer’s continuing canoodling with Ohio State forced ESPN’s PR department into action to protect him and the product. Problematically, there were no follow-ups with Meyer, and the interview segment came off about as authentic as the second season of ‘Jersey Shore.’ He responded ‘there was no truth’ to those rumors.
19, Meyer was asked on the air to comment on reports of his taking the Ohio State job. “During ESPN’s coverage of (the) Nebraska-Michigan game on Nov. As a refresher, Meyer’s representatives were negotiating with Ohio State during his ESPN stay (great work by the Eleven Warriors site for covering the recruitment at the time in full) and amid the negotiations, I wrote the following for Sports Illustrated’s website: In 2011 (which tells you I’ve been doing this for too long), I wrote about Meyer’s 10-month tenure as an ESPN analyst. Urban Meyer helped me develop this query - and I thank him for that. It is a sentence I have written before, and the question has proven to be an able guide. Whenever I see or hear an ex-coach appear on a visual or audio medium, I always ask myself the same question:Īre you working for the viewer, your network, or yourself?
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