ESPN has fired Trev Alberts, the opinionated college football analyst, after Alberts refused to show up for work. Alberts reportedly complained about playing “second fiddle” on the popular GameDay program.
This is a huge surprise. Alberts and his sidekick Mark May sometimes sounded like two idiots on their College Football Scoreboard program, but they were entertaining and they loved to ridicule each other’s opinions on the show. Does Alberts really think he can get a better gig? He had it made at ESPN. So what if the GameDay guys got most of the publicity. It looks like he let his fragile ego get in the way. What a sap.
Alberts was known for making bold statements and predictions with absolute certainty, which often made him look foolish when he was wrong. For example, in 2002 he was one of many “experts” who claimed that Ohio State had “no chance” of beating Miami in the National Championship game, but he said it so loudly and often that he practically became a villain in Buckeye country.
Alberts and May are the kind of analysts college football fans love to hate. As for Trev, it looks like his off-air personality is just as obnoxious as his on-air personality.
Wow. Alberts went all Olbermann on us. I’ll never get these guys with the best jobs in the world causing trouble at the office.
And speaking of which, does anyone know what happened with Kenny Mayne? Stud SportsCenter anchor one minute, special segment contributor the next.
At least Olberman had talent and could find other broadcasting gigs. Alberts is an idiot.
I wondered about Mayne as well. I’m not sure why he’s never on SC anymore.
This reminds me of Rich Eisen. A couple years ago, he wanted to have more exposure on ESPN, doing play-by-play and whatnot, and now he’s with the NFL Network. Whoops.
It was fun watching those morons argue. Alberts probably took too many blows to the head at Nebraska. He was also a bust in the pros.
I see that tonight they replaced him with Desmond Howard. That might be even worse.
demond is the best thing to happen to gameday since corso and herby you got a buckeye and a wolverine it dont get no better