Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread

[Sauce and Footwork]

It's worth asking how much of that is by design, though.

They are doing business like the music industry now. They want people who have some type of strong media and social media presence before employment . It’s a different sports media landscape now where many people tune into other YouTube personalities before looking to espn

 

[KFBF]

End of an era

I thought we had plenty of time.

 

[Legal]

They are doing business like the music industry now. They want people who have some type of strong media and social media presence before employment . It’s a different sports media landscape now where many people tune into other YouTube personalities before looking to espn

Exactly. Case in point, ESPN of maybe 20 years ago was more likely to seriously entertain elevating someone they already had in house to take Woj's role instead of just locking up Shams ASAP. They put out reports of Schefter or Passan maybe getting a shot, but those didn't seem serious.

Dead ass, Field Yates might end up being the last person for a while that got slotted into a role internally that someone else had. They got rid of McShay, and he's taken over his spot like nothing happened, almost entirely because his career has played out like he's dying to follow in Mike Greenberg's steps as far as being the company man that will do almost anything asked.

 

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[Rev]

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

So essentially they want them to be even more like the NFL.......

 

[3xplatinum]

Could be Dwayne Wade. Him and Eagle was pretty solid during the Olympics

 

[Born2BKing]

Could be Dwayne Wade. Him and Eagle was pretty solid during the Olympics

fukk no to D WADE.

 

[triplehate]

It's crazy that like 5 years ago ESPN had personalities that people loved. Coli wouldn't be caught dead watching ESPN now

 

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[Optimus Prime]

SAS implied that he’s going to be in LA a lot more on FT yesterday when Shannon was complaining about NY weather. I think the deal is pretty much done. They just waiting to announce it.

 

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[daboywonder2002]

Most of us thought he would get $20 million. I'm just wondering if any other network tried to sign him.

 

[beenz]

a 9 figure contract for a talking head is but this guy been putting in decades worth of 24/7/365 work to get this this point

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Pretty much Stephen A & Pat McAfee are the only valuable properties they have at that network.

Everybody else, including Uncle Shay Shay are pretty interchangeable.