He isn’t, but he’s willing to show up on TV whenever asked, which is how SAS has ended up where he is now. ESPN wants people that can wear multiple hats which is something that Legler doesn’t do for whatever reason.
Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread
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He doesn’t want to cover the overhead and have all the other duties of running his own show.
Legler just wants to talk ball and get a D1 head coach job. DefinItely one of my favorite analysts
Which is cool and all, but the exact type of employee that ESPN is looking to lay off. I’ve heard the names Steve Young and Suzy Kolber as well because of the limited roles that they have at the network.
Legs is entrenched at the 4 letter
He ain’t goin nowhere unless he gets a coaching job
They’re only a few untouchables at the network and he isn’t one of them. Don’t forget it’s not only ESPN calling the shots, but Disney as well.
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So when ESPN getting the flattop?
Never….
Matter fact they just got a new shape up and fade
Stephen A and JJ bring him on and he’s brought in at night. Basically his ties to other untouchables makes him untouchable by association. Basically, any regular on a Stephen A show is unlikely to go.
Disney/ESPN don’t care about that though as even SAS and JJ might end up being asked to take paycut as well. Don’t forget a lot of high profile names and positions have getting laid off by Disney and those cats at ESPN aren’t the exception to that.
The fact that SAS spoke on it in advance when it wasn’t even made public should let people know what’s coming.
They want people that can show up on multiple shows and fake talk more than one sport.
Didn’t realize FanDuel only paid him and not his crew.
I think you’re missing my point. Disney cares about making money, if your most profitable personality (Stephen A) consistently uses the same people then they’re not likely to be on the chopping block. All those people I referenced show up on multiple shows. You see them bring Swaggu on to talk ball because he’s Stephen A’s mans even though it’s not his expertise. Everything you just said is implied in what I said. The people you’re talking about were just names but their roles had been diminished a long time ago. For example, I would say Bomani Jones is more likely to be let go than someone like Legler even those Bomani is a bigger name. He doesn’t have much of a presence anymore. If he got fired tomorrow nothing would change about your daily ESPN viewing.
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Yep, nearly all those huge podcast deals from the last few years were cases of companies paying the lead personality, and then having them run their show off of that. Quiet as kept, trying to run a large scale podcast like that can be expensive. Gotta pay production teams, have a sales team, probably a guest booker, something resembling a HR team, gotta figure out how vacation and insurance works, etc.
As I understand it, his new deal with ESPN offloads a lot of that to ESPN's infrastructure. Honestly, it's worth it just to not have to deal with any of the HR aspect of it.
Swaggu shows up on multiple ESPN shows on a daily basis and not just First Take. That's my point. He shows up on NFL Live, Get Up and has no issues showing up on SC anytime they ask. A lot of those diminished roles are because a lot of those talent aren't willing to show up when asked, which is why you see someone like Kendrick Perkins get as much burn that he does.
SAS doesn't have the power or sway like that to tell ESPN and Disney who they should/shouldn't cut and he has made that clear on more than one occasion. Remember even someone like SAS and Greeny have had to take paycuts whenever ESPN/Disney has asked as they weren't immune from it eventhough they are on top of the totem pole at the company.
A lot of those talent are interchangeable and that's just the reality of the situation.
it's unfortunate for sure, but I'll follow Legs' work wherever he goes