State of the Game, Part 1
Tuesday night was Round 9 of Dream Job on ESPN. The assignment for each of the potential anchors was to put together a two minute piece assessing the state of college football. To go along with the piece they developed, they each got to interview Kirk Herbstreit. In the end, only one of the three contestants truly assessed the total state of the game in the eyes of the judges. The other two each focused on too narrow a topic and shot themselves in the foot.
The voting was tragic for me because Anish, the man I had as the front runner in the competition was voted off, but given his performance, he deserved it. He incorrectly named which game led to the firing of Ron Zook (He said Zook was fired after the team's loss to Georgia), and he totally neglected the whole Spurrier angle. In addition, he only focused on the three teams from Florida which had their terrible week, two weeks ago. Stephen A. Smith (who I am not a fan of, and can't believe that he would be one of the those deciding on future talent for ESPN), called this the most terrible piece since Dream Job started. Woody Paige said that any fact as wrong as the Zook firing leaves Anish's credibility in the toilet.
I feel bad for Anish, but this was his worst performance and it came at a time where there was no room for error. Unfortunately for him, America liked the other contestant's piece better and cut Anish. But, Woody is correct. I check and then double check every fact that I put into my columns on this site and on the main site back when the commentary was listed with the rankings. Sometimes, if I can't find something that I want to put in, I have to rewrite entire sections of the story, but I won't guess on something that I am going to put out there.
Good luck to Anish in the future. I know based on what he did on the show, he will find a job in sports broadcasting somewhere. He was too good not too. Let's just hope he learned his lesson.
Stay tuned for Part 2, when I will take on the task of the Dreamjobbers and report on the State of College Football.
