QB Kirk ‘Nightmare On’ Herbstreit (Frosted Quips, Afraid of THE Lunatic Fringe)

[MaxBuck]

Don't ask me how I know, but Scooby Doo is still on the Cartoon Network.

Scooby-Doo in the AM.

Wake and bake.

 

[Jagdaddy]

I'm kinds past having any issues with Herbstreit's positions on the Buckeyes specifically although I agree with Daddy's comment that "while making the aforementioned statements on national broadcasts, he would speak much differently on his own show," and think that leaves a Dixie Chicks bashing GWB in europe but not in Texas taste in my mouth.

Like Mili, or maybe even beyond him, I've yelled stuff at Coach Tressel's image on my TV when seeing some of OSU's offensive play calling and philosophy that could be considered a hate crime in many jurisdictions . . . and I wouldn't want anyone else as our coach. Of course, nobody listens to my frustrated ranting . . .

At this point, my main beef is that I simply don't think Herbstreit adds any value as an analyst and I generally find myself changing the channel when he's on unless he's actually calling a game I want to watch. Guys like Corso and Holtz are buffoons on purpose: Herbstreit seems to manage it unintentionally.

 

[cincibuck]

I'm kinds past having any issues with Herbstreit's positions on the Buckeyes specifically although I agree with Daddy's comment that "while making the aforementioned statements on national broadcasts, he would speak much differently on his own show," and think that leaves a Dixie Chicks bashing GWB in europe but not in Texas taste in my mouth.

Like Mili, or maybe even beyond him, I've yelled stuff at Coach Tressel's image on my TV when seeing some of OSU's offensive play calling and philosophy that could be considered a hate crime in many jurisdictions . . . and I wouldn't want anyone else as our coach. Of course, nobody listens to my frustrated ranting . . .

At this point, my main beef is that I simply don't think Herbstreit adds any value as an analyst and I generally find myself changing the channel when he's on unless he's actually calling a game I want to watch. Guys like Corso and Holtz are buffoons on purpose: Herbstreit seems to manage it unintentionally.

Not to single you out, but your comments seem similar to what many are saying and my question remains, if you, as a fan, saw problems with the offense/play calls why would you not expect a tv commentator to mention them? Further, what makes saying so controversial? Commentators are there to report on what they see and what they think. You, as a fan, are free to listen or ignore and to comment back to them, their employer or their sponsors.

Herbie's loyalty to the school can be measured by his having contributed as a player -- a full time job --. In that sense he paid it forward. He speaks well of the school when appropriate, I assume he gives to the alumni fund, and until and unless the school hires him, his obligation is complete.

 

[Ttown]

Not to single you out, but your comments seem similar to what many are saying and my question remains, if you, as a fan, saw problems with the offense/play calls why would you not expect a tv commentator to mention them? Further, what makes saying so controversial? Commentators are there to report on what they see and what they think. You, as a fan, are free to listen or ignore and to comment back to them, their employer or their sponsors.

Herbie's loyalty to the school can be measured by his having contributed as a player -- a full time job --. In that sense he paid it forward. He speaks well of the school when appropriate, I assume he gives to the alumni fund, and until and unless the school hires him, his obligation is complete.

Agree, not affording Herbie the right to complain while his detractors do is totally racist.

 

[matcar]

Agree, not affording Herbie the right to complain while his detractors do is totally racist.

Not sure I'd call it racist.

My opinion is that folks who continue to smash away at the guy could really consider moving on though.

 

[BayBuck]

I don't know how to quantify it, but neither Espin not Herbie goes out of the way to publicize his tOSU legacy. If you tune in to most GameDay Saturdays, it just doesn't come up. If you didn't already know, and let's face it, you don't unless you followed tOSU in the early nineties, that he was our QB, and you don't happen to catch a random spot in which it's mentioned, you don't necessarily know that he went to Ohio State. He wasn't that good and neither were we back then.

Good point. I never see Herbie bring all his sons out in OSU jerseys when GameDay comes to the 'Shoe every year.

C'mon man! I agree with the last sentence, and surely nobody outside of Buckeye Nation has Herbie's OSU highlights playing in their heads, but everyone who watches that show knows where he played his college ball.

 

[jenkinswoody]

I knew all of the others, but honestly had no idea that Fowler went to Colorado.....Off to wikipedia- where the answers are always right!

 

[Ttown]

I suggest that when football starts again that anyone who is negative towards Herbie be prohibited from any negative comments about the Bucks.

 

[southcampus]

Hey, I agree with SnoopyHangOn. Let's all write Herbstreit a letter. He'll be sure to get back to us.

And, I ask you, why stop there? Let's invite him to take part in one of those Skype conferences. We could sing Carmen Ohio while a recording of the bells ringing across the Oval plays in the background.

There must be hundreds of ways that we could relive old times with Herbie for a couple of hours and just rebuild some of that good, old-fashioned togetherness that we all had with him and each other as we attended different high schools together and got to know each other at Ohio State as one big happy class over the last four decades. Oh, except the folks that didn't go to Ohio State but what the heck, going to different schools together can apply to Ohio State as well!

I don't know, I just get so upset at all this cynicism. He's right, this must be the most cynical place in the entire universe. Oh, and the arguing and bickering. It's just too much for me to take. I don't know, I guess I just feel overwhelmed by it all.

Anyone know where the group is meeting to sing kumbaya tonight?

Just as Mike Adams is moving out of your nightmares, Kirk is moving in. Will Ohio State football ever give Steve a fucking break!? I'm down for some kumbaya, bro.

 

[Magua]

ESPN, Inc., which led the way with 54 nominations, won seven Sports Emmy Awards on Monday night in New York City.
ESPN's three Sports Emmys included Outstanding Studio Show -- Daily for "Pardon The Interruption;" Outstanding Studio Show -- Weekly for "College GameDay;" and Kirk Herbstreit for Outstanding Sports Personality -- Studio Analyst.

ESPN networks, website win 7 Sports Emmy Awards - ESPN


Guess he's doing something right then...

 

[jwinslow]

Did anyone catch Herbie's Brian Kelly - Knute Rockne comparison during the PSU spring game?

 

[Buckskin86]

Herbie on BN radio...

Front Row Radio Instant Classic: Herbstreit Unplugged | Football Article

 

[Buckskin86]

Top 5 questions and answers with ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit
By: Michael Rothstein
AnnArbor.com Staff
Posted: Aug 2, 2010

ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit chatted at Big Ten media days in Chicago on Monday, answering questions from reporters and giving his thoughts on expansion, Nebraska, Michigan and the conference in general.

Q: (Paraphrased) Do you think Michigan and Ohio State should be in the same division and play every year?

Kirk Herbstreit: "This game has built up a reputation over the last 100 years because this game means so much. In my opinion, you have to get back to Michigan winning games. It?s a matter of time until they get it back and recruit the kind of the players that they need to become an elite program. I think, if you look at the splitting of the two, if they are on the other side or the same division, there is nothing you can do to ever take away from Ohio State and Michigan. It?s still going to be special if they play in a championship game a week later and it?s still going to be special.

"I?d prefer to see them in the same division, much like Alabama and Auburn, so you have that game at the end of the year and whoever wins will more than likely go on to the championship game and whoever loses is out and settles for a second-tier bowl and gets ready for the next year."

Top 5 questions and answers with ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit - AnnArbor.com

 

[Buckskin86]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pbIs60vfao"]YouTube- RAW: Herbstreit Talks OSU, BCS Title Chase[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Commentary: Kirk Herbstreit dreams of being the Dick Vitale of college football
By Dave George
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, Aug. 23, 2010

WEST PALM BEACH ? Who is the face of college football? Like every other sweeping question in sports today, that is for ESPN to decide.

In this case, the network has chosen well, plucking Kirk Herbstreit from a long ago audition tape and systematically positioning the former Ohio State quarterback for decades of racing around the country as an eyewitness, an ambassador, a mirror of the game.

All the guy's missing is a catchphrase or two and - Whoa, Nelly! - we may be thinking of him in 20 years the way we do of Keith Jackson.

How did it happen? Well, other than the fact that Herbstreit is very smooth and natural on camera and knows the game instinctively, there is his age, 41, and his passion for the chaos and the fun of a Saturday stadium on red alert, which should be good for another 41 years.

As for ESPN's role in setting the American weekend agenda, they and the parent ABC network own the rights to the BCS bowls and the national championship game, plus a couple of prime-time Saturday showcase games per week, plus a new 15-year deal with the almighty SEC.

That last one with Div. I's glamour conference goes for $2.25 billion all by itself, a pretty fair indicator of how important it was for Herbstreit to find a space on this runaway broadcast locomotive, even if it was originally the caboose.

"I was doing local radio (in Columbus, Ohio) and I put this little tape together, never thinking I would hear anything back," said Herbstreit, who was in West Palm Beach Monday for a waterfront rally to kick off the high school football season and highlight the area's best players. "I went in for an audition (at ESPN) back in 1995 and, other than being interviewed in the locker room after games, I had never been on that side of the camera."

Long story short, Herbstreit flew to ESPN headquarters in Connecticut, logged three minutes of play-by-play simulation work behind a SportsCenter desk and headed home for seven months of silence from the network honchos. When the phone finally rang, it was to offer a job as sideline reporter. Herbstreit jumped at it enthusiastically, just as he did the College GameDay gig that came along the following year.

"My goal when I started on GameDay was to one day be looked at in the same way that Dick Vitale is looked at in college basketball," Herbstreit said.

Commentary: Kirk Herbstreit dreams of being the Dick Vitale of college football