OT: Espn cuts Grantland

[pgardn]

Grant land had much better writers.

Oh well...

[JMarkJohns]

Hold up... Simmons is actually going to make people PAY to read his drivel?

This clown will be sucking Skipper's and begging for his old job back in a few years.

ESPN needed Simmons much more than Simmons needed ESPN.

He walked from ESPN into a bidding war for his services.

He's the creative talent. ESPN was the distributor.

He created 30for30 and Grantland. ESPN created Bayless and Smith screaming at each other.

[cjw]

ESPN doesn't need Grantland, at all..anything under the ESPN umbrella needs their name far more than the company needs them, tbh..everybody there is very replaceable, which has been proven time and time again since their existence..

Their demographic is the casual fan that watches First Take-type of shows, Sportscenter highlights and anything NFL-related..they don't give a about niche content like Grantland, nor should they..

Yup, pandering to lowest common denominator. But in a way, the best Grantland writers don't need the mothership and will be fine on their own. Simmons quoted something like 400k on average have downloaded each of his podcasts. I'm sure a guy like Lowe or the football writers would get a pretty darn good following at any media outlet.

Say Grantland had a staff of 50 and it was costing $100k a head (all in, which is probably high) after the Simmons departure. That's $5 million. They pay $100 million to air each MNF football game when nobody else was at half of that level. Whoever signed up to that deal is the one whose head should roll.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

It was Simmons idea. ESPN. I'm someone who believes intellectual property belongs to the visionary, not the corporation.

Agree 1000000000000%.

Bill Simmons is a badass for doing this. This is similar to what I did (obviously on a much smaller scale) when сUNT tried to steal my pharmacy club and my facebook page, too, after that group of goty high horsemen took over the student organizations department here this past summer.

BSPN (Barf, and Piss Network) for firing someone and then trying to steal his idea. If anything, the CEO and associated executives should get 25 to life behind bars (in a regular state penitentiary, not some pampered-up white collar soft prison) for grand theft of such intellectual property, seriously. Make BSPN take it up the ass, literally.


I'll say it once and I'll say it again::: BSPN.