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.
