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QB Kirk Herbstreit (Frosted Quips, Brain with a Lunatic Fringe)

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August 26, 2011
30 Seconds: Kirk Herbstreit?s Heart Stays in Columbus
By MELISSA HOPPERT

Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State quarterback and captain, recently made headlines when he announced that, amid a scandal rocking the Buckeyes? football program, he and his family would move from their longtime home in Columbus, Ohio, to Nashville.
Kirk HerbstreitAllen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post?I think it?s the most tumultuous time in my lifetime,? Kirk Herbstreit, an ESPN analyst, said of college football.

He said he was tired of continual criticism from a ?vocal minority? of Ohio State fans who do not understand that his job as an ESPN college football analyst requires objectivity.

Shortly after moving, he deleted his Twitter account after those fans followed him to the social media site and, Herbstreit said, wanted him to defend his allegiance to Ohio State, where his father, Jim, was a captain and later a coach.

Herbstreit, 42, is entering his 16th season on ESPN?S ?College GameDay.? He will also continue his weekly radio show on WBNS-FM in Columbus this fall.
Q.

What?s the best part about Nashville?
A.

It?s great. We?ve been there for about four or five months now. The people are very gracious. It?s a different feel. I?ve always heard that in the South, people are very friendly. This is the thing that stands out. I don?t care if you?re at the grocery store, people have time to talk. They?re just very, very friendly.
Q.

Do you miss Columbus?
A.

Absolutely. Columbus will always be my home. I?ve been there since ?88, so it?s pretty much my whole life.
Q.

What is your response to the fans who criticized you via Twitter?
A.

I really don?t have a response to them. I don?t have to defend anything that I said because it was all my opinion, that by the way ended up all being true. So if you don?t like my opinions, then I?m sorry.
Q.

What are your thoughts on the scandal at Ohio State?
A.

I feel very sad that the school is going through that. It?s sad that one guy in particular has the power to put Ohio State in this position and to force Jim Tressel, who I still think is a great man, to have to step down. So the whole thing is just sad for me.

Q.

Do you still keep in contact with Tressel?
A.

I have not. I mean I talked to him during it, but since he stepped down, I have not talked to him.

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Herbstreit sees positives from Buckeyes? changes
Sunday August 28, 2011
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch

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Ricardo B. Brazziell | Associated Press
Kirk Herbstreit predicts Ohio State will beat Iowa in the first Big Ten championship game.

Kirk Herbstreit gets paid by ESPN to put his credibility where his mouth is. And eight months after saying that losing quarterback Terrelle Pryor would be an addition by subtraction for Ohio State, he has made another proclamation.

?I think the Buckeyes are going to win the Big Ten championship,? he said. ?I?ve picked Ohio State to beat Iowa in the first Big Ten championship game.?

If it seems as if Herbstreit, a former Ohio State quarterback, is rooting just a little for his alma mater, then so be it, he said.

The analyst ? who relocated his family from Upper Arlington to Nashville, Tenn., in the past year partly to escape the ire of some Ohio State fans ? pummeled the school in the wake of the scandal and NCAA investigation that caused the Buckeyes to vacate their 2010 season, cost coach Jim Tressel his job and prompted Pryor to leave for the Oakland Raiders after his junior season.

But Herbstreit?s attitude is different now.

?I don?t know if I have ever looked forward to a season starting more than I am looking forward to watching this one unfold for Ohio State,? he said. ?And it?s not because of things I went through, but because of things my school went through that hurt me to have to watch them endure.

?To have that chapter behind them, and to see a team that very few people nationally think can be competitive ? I love this team. I love the position this team is in.?

Despite Pryor?s obvious athleticism, it was the me-first image he portrayed off the field and sometimes on it that Herbstreit noticed. He thinks the Buckeyes are better off even though it means inexperienced senior Joe Bauserman or freshman Braxton Miller will likely start on Saturday against Akron.

?A hundred percent. Absolutely,? he said. ?The one thing I hear from everybody is that there is such a feeling of ?team? in that program right now. And I don?t think it is just because of everything they?ve been through as a group off the field in the last seven or eight months.

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This morning on College Gameday on ESPN U, Herbstreit again picked Iowa to win the Legends division this season. His justification for this pick? Whenever people expect Iowa to have a big season, they disappoint. Whenever people don't expect much from Iowa, they quietly exceed expectations and have a big season. This year, people aren't expecting much from Iowa. THEREFORE, Iowa is about to have a big season. That's the hard-hitting analysis I tune in for, Kirk!

For my part, I think Iowa always has a chance with Vandenberg's mom in attendance.
 
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sepia5;1976193; said:
This morning on College Gameday on ESPN U, Herbstreit again picked Iowa to win the Legends division this season. His justification for this pick? Whenever people expect Iowa to have a big season, they disappoint. Whenever people don't expect much from Iowa, they quietly exceed expectations and have a big season. This year, people aren't expecting much from Iowa. THEREFORE, Iowa is about to have a big season. That's the hard-hitting analysis I tune in for, Kirk!

For my part, I think Iowa always has a chance with Vandenberg's mom in attendance.
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[ESPN viewer] He didn't even let us know who the fastest, most SEC-like team is? How can you do a legitimate analysis without starting with that? What a fucking hack. [/ESPN viewer]
 
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sepia5;1976193; said:
This morning on College Gameday on ESPN U, Herbstreit again picked Iowa to win the Legends division this season. His justification for this pick? Whenever people expect Iowa to have a big season, they disappoint. Whenever people don't expect much from Iowa, they quietly exceed expectations and have a big season. This year, people aren't expecting much from Iowa. THEREFORE, Iowa is about to have a big season. That's the hard-hitting analysis I tune in for, Kirk!

For my part, I think Iowa always has a chance with Vandenberg's mom in attendance.
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His typical analysis consists of repeating the word "speed" as many times as possible. It's so lazy and void of substance.
 
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