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said he wasn't the highest paid on air talent at the network, I was legit 
that literally makes no sense as much as that dude works and is on air.
Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread
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said he wasn't the highest paid on air talent at the network, I was legit that literally makes no sense as much as that dude works and is on air.
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from what I understand is disney acquired mcafee's show's parent company. he didn't move there or accept a contract with them. so it wasn't a sellout technically.
Only value he has is playing that cop on General Hospital
Outside a that he has zero
Even then, it's not even real value outside the Disney umbrella, since General Hospital is one of their properties.
It really does. It's increasingly looking like its one of those cases where both sides were eager to make a deal for a product, but neither side seems to completely understand why the audience was into it in the first place.
That's when he went to FS1 and had that awful iMax show
i hear you, but also feel this was a good conversation about it
He was the highest paid at ESPN until McAfee, Buck and Aikman came in and eclipsed him.when
that literally makes no sense as much as that dude works and is on air.
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joe buck works for ESPN????
Yup and he and Aikman do now for MNF. Other than those 3, I can’t think of anyone else at ESPN that makes more than SAS does. The closest would probably been Greeny.
Said this on here on Friday and glad Mad Dog said it on his radio show, so it gets traction...
“Let me put it this way, I can’t fathom the idea that ESPN in these layoffs…would fire Jeff Van Gundy,” Russo said on his Sirius XM podcast Mad Dog’s Daily Bite on Tuesday. “You’re not going to convince me that ESPN (and Disney boss Bob Iger) woke up in the last two weeks, looked at the budget sheet, and said, ‘We gotta fire Van Gundy because we gotta save some money.'”
Russo said if that was the case, they should’ve fired Marc Jackson instead.
“Fire the both of them,” he continued. “Save real money, bring one guy in, and pay him half. If you really wanted to go out there and save money with your NBA crew, which you could’ve done is fired the both of them and just hired Doc Rivers and paid him half of what those two were making. You could’ve saved a fortune and done a two-man booth. You could’ve easily have done that.”
You are not going to convince Russo that ESPN woke up one day and decided to “can” Van Gundy. He did mention that a couple of times.
“ESPN will never admit it. They’re gonna say it’s our call. Nonsense. Why would they get rid of a great team? That team is a great team with [Mike Breen]…You’re not going to convince me that that team, that everybody likes. Nobody doesn’t like that team. I mean, is it [Al] McGuire, [dikk] Enberg and [Billy] Packer? That’s special. That’s an all-timer. It’s also 40 years ago. Is it [John] Madden and Pat [Summerall]? In this day and age, that team is as good as a team that you’re going to find doing broadcast television doing an event. You’re not finding any better team. You’re not doing it.”
That leaves Russo with only one choice: the conspiracy theory route.
“That leads me to the conclusion that someone in the league office must’ve told ESPN, ‘I want Van Gundy out,'” Russo claims. “We all know he’s biting. We all know he gets on the officials. We all know he doesn’t hold back with his NBA opinions. He tells you what he thinks, which is what a great broadcaster is supposed to do anyways. What is going on right now in the negotiation scenario? ESPN and NBC and TNT, what are they doing? They’re all negotiating with [commsioner Adam] Silver and the NBA.
“So, if you’re asking me, little talk show host, who may not know a thing, this is just my opinion, Silver is the one who fired Van Gundy. Silver told ESPN, ‘I want him out. You want to do the games in the next contract? I don’t want Van Gundy doing the games. I don’t want him knocking the league. I want a pom-pom guy in there….’”
Chris Russo floats theory that Adam Silver made ESPN fire Jeff Van Gundy
ESPN employee Chris "Mad Dog" Russo suggested that NBA commissioner Adam Silver is responsible for Jeff Van Gundy losing his job.
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Russo said if that was the case, they should’ve fired Marc Jackson instead.
“Fire the both of them,” he continued. “Save real money, bring one guy in, and pay him half. If you really wanted to go out there and save money with your NBA crew, which you could’ve done is fired the both of them and just hired Doc Rivers and paid him half of what those two were making. You could’ve saved a fortune and done a two-man booth. You could’ve easily have done that.”
You are not going to convince Russo that ESPN woke up one day and decided to “can” Van Gundy. He did mention that a couple of times.
“ESPN will never admit it. They’re gonna say it’s our call. Nonsense. Why would they get rid of a great team? That team is a great team with [Mike Breen]…You’re not going to convince me that that team, that everybody likes. Nobody doesn’t like that team. I mean, is it [Al] McGuire, [dikk] Enberg and [Billy] Packer? That’s special. That’s an all-timer. It’s also 40 years ago. Is it [John] Madden and Pat [Summerall]? In this day and age, that team is as good as a team that you’re going to find doing broadcast television doing an event. You’re not finding any better team. You’re not doing it.”
That leaves Russo with only one choice: the conspiracy theory route.
“That leads me to the conclusion that someone in the league office must’ve told ESPN, ‘I want Van Gundy out,'” Russo claims. “We all know he’s biting. We all know he gets on the officials. We all know he doesn’t hold back with his NBA opinions. He tells you what he thinks, which is what a great broadcaster is supposed to do anyways. What is going on right now in the negotiation scenario? ESPN and NBC and TNT, what are they doing? They’re all negotiating with [commsioner Adam] Silver and the NBA.
“So, if you’re asking me, little talk show host, who may not know a thing, this is just my opinion, Silver is the one who fired Van Gundy. Silver told ESPN, ‘I want him out. You want to do the games in the next contract? I don’t want Van Gundy doing the games. I don’t want him knocking the league. I want a pom-pom guy in there….’”
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Said this on here on Friday and glad Mad Dog said it on his radio show, so it gets traction...
“Let me put it this way, I can’t fathom the idea that ESPN in these layoffs…would fire Jeff Van Gundy,” Russo said on his Sirius XM podcast Mad Dog’s Daily Bite on Tuesday. “You’re not going to convince me that ESPN (and Disney boss Bob Iger) woke up in the last two weeks, looked at the budget sheet, and said, ‘We gotta fire Van Gundy because we gotta save some money.'”Chris Russo floats theory that Adam Silver made ESPN fire Jeff Van Gundy
ESPN employee Chris "Mad Dog" Russo suggested that NBA commissioner Adam Silver is responsible for Jeff Van Gundy losing his job.awfulannouncing.com
Russo said if that was the case, they should’ve fired Marc Jackson instead.
“Fire the both of them,” he continued. “Save real money, bring one guy in, and pay him half. If you really wanted to go out there and save money with your NBA crew, which you could’ve done is fired the both of them and just hired Doc Rivers and paid him half of what those two were making. You could’ve saved a fortune and done a two-man booth. You could’ve easily have done that.”
You are not going to convince Russo that ESPN woke up one day and decided to “can” Van Gundy. He did mention that a couple of times.
“ESPN will never admit it. They’re gonna say it’s our call. Nonsense. Why would they get rid of a great team? That team is a great team with [Mike Breen]…You’re not going to convince me that that team, that everybody likes. Nobody doesn’t like that team. I mean, is it [Al] McGuire, [dikk] Enberg and [Billy] Packer? That’s special. That’s an all-timer. It’s also 40 years ago. Is it [John] Madden and Pat [Summerall]? In this day and age, that team is as good as a team that you’re going to find doing broadcast television doing an event. You’re not finding any better team. You’re not doing it.”
That leaves Russo with only one choice: the conspiracy theory route.
“That leads me to the conclusion that someone in the league office must’ve told ESPN, ‘I want Van Gundy out,'” Russo claims. “We all know he’s biting. We all know he gets on the officials. We all know he doesn’t hold back with his NBA opinions. He tells you what he thinks, which is what a great broadcaster is supposed to do anyways. What is going on right now in the negotiation scenario? ESPN and NBC and TNT, what are they doing? They’re all negotiating with [commsioner Adam] Silver and the NBA.
“So, if you’re asking me, little talk show host, who may not know a thing, this is just my opinion, Silver is the one who fired Van Gundy. Silver told ESPN, ‘I want him out. You want to do the games in the next contract? I don’t want Van Gundy doing the games. I don’t want him knocking the league. I want a pom-pom guy in there….’”
It’s pretty unbelievable that they’d just halfway cut up their A team, but not completely like the quote said. Them not going for Doc (yet) doesn’t make sense either
I’m fully behind equality, but promoting Doris to that spot when A. She isn’t as entertaining as JVG B. She seems to have good chemistry with big word mulatto breh C. YOU DIDNT HAVE TO FIRE JVG is also confounding. To not get Doc AND fire Jeff would make me believe something was up
Streaming don't bring as much money as cable subs and running ads.
Margins are lower with streaming and ESPN got too much production behind the scenes... and too many high paid personalities.
Just record the shows with an iphone attached to a ring light, lol. You need to be super lean with streaming. They should ask MKBHD and Linus Tech tips what they pay their staff....I bet ESPN is overpaying.
Margins are lower with streaming and ESPN got too much production behind the scenes... and too many high paid personalities.
Just record the shows with an iphone attached to a ring light, lol. You need to be super lean with streaming. They should ask MKBHD and Linus Tech tips what they pay their staff....I bet ESPN is overpaying.