Awful Announcing
Rinaldi had been with ESPN since 2002, and had been well-known for his work on CFB and golf coverage in particular. It looks like he'll have a wide range of responsibilities at Fox.
"He runs like a...how should I say this? He's not a running back. He's a quarterback who happens to run."
Fox's "Big Noon Kickoff" will look very different this week.
Three Week Two games involving Big 12 teams (TCU, Baylor, and Oklahoma State) have been postponed or cancelled within the last week, and a couple of other Week Two games have also seen postponements.
The 10 Mountain West schools other than Hawaii and Boise State made $1.1 million per year per school under the current deals with CBSSN and ESPN. They could hit $3 million or more under these new deals.
"Urban Meyer took a shot at me out of nowhere when he was doing a very small interview for somebody..."
Plenty of coaches have gone into TV work, but there might be some particular challenges there for Petersen, especially given his history with ESPN.
Big Noon Kickoff averaged 1,979,000 viewers for its 11 a.m ET-noon hour Saturday. College GameDay averaged 2,725,000 viewers for its final hour, but 2,125,000 across its three hours, so Fox's peak is at least getting close to ESPN's average. And few would have predicted that when Big Noon Kickoff launched.
The race finished with audio only, and then video came back just before FS1 threw to college football.
Lou Dobbs got cut off for Nebraska-Minnesota.
"It was pretty obvious and pretty evident, even when I talked to my friends and peers at ESPN, that there’s no question about this. Leaving the personal relationships, I think, in anything we do is hard, but professionally there was simply no doubt."
