Will be tough to replace Shannon, the thing with Shannon is he was hand picked by Skip. FS1 wasn't interested initially cause they didn't believe people would want to listen to a football player talk about other sports (this has all been said publicly by Shannon). It's not gonna be easy to just slide another athlete in that spot. Skip would need to be on board completely and they would need to have at least some interest and knowledge in other sports
Skip is 71 and been doing this Sports debate shyt for nearly 20 years now (really he was doing it before that but I'm just going back to 1st & 10 on Cold Pizza with Woody Paige) with a hugely successful career in print media before then. If this is the end of the run I think he's done pretty well for himself most media personalities don't last as long
It's not even close to the end.. The only reason he's still not #1 on First Take is because he took the bigger bag... ESPN still wanted him back but Fox gave him another bag... ESPN still wanted him back, even just online while keeping his Fox show, Fox said no.........
When it's time to reup, he'll get another bag from Fox or just take another one at ESPN and come back to First Take and #1 status. Skip is like Howard Stern. Or even Mad Dog... No matter how outdated and stale they are, no matter how many copycats come out, there is always a bag waiting