ESPN's New CFB Show: College Football Live
Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 12:22PM Sounds cool, I wish they'd run this all year like they do their NFL programming ...
Begins July 23, will air Monday to Friday at 3:30 PM on ESPN.
Rece Davis will be your host of the 30-minute show with Kirk Herbsteit and Lee Corso helping out for the first two shows. Others to be featured include: Chris Spielman, Bob Griese, Robert Smith, Desmond Howard, Jim Donnan, Lou Holtz, Ed Cunningham, and Joe Schad.
Other features include on-campus performances from the Grambling State Tigers and USC Trojan marching bands, segments on what it's like to coach at Notre Dame, Tim Tebow features, top 25 Heisman candidates countdown, live interviews with Ray Rice, Ian Johnson, Darren D-Mac McFadden, etc.
All-in-all, sounds like decent enough filler although I'm sure people will find reason to complain.
Reader Comments (15)
The only problem with interviewing cfb players is how bad they are with the media, most of them anyway. Did anybody else see P.J. Hill on The Pulse last Saturday?
Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush were all hilariously bad in front of the camera before the sheer volume of media attention forced them to be articulate and quotable.
Stick to the USC, Miami, Rutgers and Northwestern kids and it's usually not too bad of a TV experience.
The other thing is over-exposed guys tend to make for good TV. Adrian Peterson was almost unwatchable during his freshman year right up to and past the Heisman ceremony. But eventually he got it and was a reasonable media presence. Jason White as softspoken as he is was very camera-ready by his junior and senior years.
Most guys in the NFL, same thing. There's some equation I think to the amount of time and number of cameras faced before guys cross that threshold and can do well on TV (the amazingly aloof Barry Sanders excluded).