re: ESPN Layoffs Today: &quot;Around 50 names you will recognize&quot;

Posted by TigerTalker16

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:43 pm to GEAUXmedic

I'm actually pretty shocked Daney Kanell and Brett McMurphy got let go.

Posted by lsupride87

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:43 pm to slackster

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slackster

90% have been white. What would you guess the racial makeup of on-air personalities are? I would say whites are getting fired at a far higher rate

But I dont give a shite.

Posted by Drank

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:43 pm to Byron Bojangles III

Inside look at ESPN headquarters currently...

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Posted by slackster

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:43 pm to RedRifle

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Get out of here with that logic talk.

Seriously. If Schlumberger fired 100 people, about 85-90% would be white males and no one would bat an eye.

Posted by hg

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:44 pm to Drank

That lady isn't black, can't be espn headquarters

Posted by Party At LSU

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:44 pm to Drank

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Inside look at ESPN headquarters currently..

Wrong room. She's white.

Posted by RobbBobb

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:44 pm to slackster

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Are you of the belief that ESPN's employee demographics match the demographics of the US? Newsflash, they don't.

Yeah, I'm wanting you to roll out ESPNs demographics. You've gone from claiming 80% to 90% white males, is just a couple of pages on here

Posted by chillbaw

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:44 pm to slackster

I still can't believe Jalen Rose is still employed. He can't complete a sentence or keep still while talking

Posted by LSUSoulja08

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:45 pm to Byron Bojangles III

yeah not terribly sad that Dilfer got the axe

Posted by Xenophon

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:45 pm to TigerTalker16

The fact that Russillo is being diminished is the biggest news for me. He is the exact type of personality that ESPN should be hitching their wagons to. He's middle of the road on nearly everything and facts based.

But no, we get hip hop sportscenter instead.

Posted by slackster

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:45 pm to Keys Open Doors

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That being said, I doubt ESPN is 80 percent white males, at least when it comes to journalists and TV personalities. Probably around that behind the scenes.

Their columnists, reporters, and sports editors fall in line with those numbers.

The overall staff is lower though.

Posted by lsupride87

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:45 pm to slackster

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about 85-90% would be white males and no one would bat an eye.

Because Schlumberger is about 85-90% white males. You seem to be the one failing statistics here

Posted by Lou Pai

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:45 pm to Cap Crunch

No, it actually isn't. I am willing to acknowledge their bottom-line is affected significantly by an outsized staff. Topline however is adversely affected by the precipitous drop in subscriptions. Hell you just said that--it's a dying industry.

People have made snarky jokes about Oil and Gas baws and that is a great example. More cyclical than structural like ESPN, but the reason it happened was because of topline first and foremost.

Poor content is a driving force in that.

This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 1:47 pm

Posted by slackster

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:46 pm to chillbaw

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The dems are easy to spot in this thread

, couldn't be further from the truth.

Posted by quail man

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:46 pm to Lou Pai

Sure this has already been said but Dan patrick tomorrow is going to be so good

Posted by Loungefly85

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:46 pm to Drank

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Inside look at ESPN headquarters currently...

Same room tomorrow.

Posted by tigersandsaints

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:47 pm to GEAUXmedic

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No longer at ESPN. Thank you to everyone who read and supported me throughout my 9 years there. Means more than you can know.

Posted by BilJ

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Posted on 4/26/17 at 1:47 pm to Keys Open Doors

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If I was ESPN, I wouldn't be firing 12 regional reporters making 70K a year. I would fire people making more than a million a year who aren't worth that amount.

I would be firing former coaches and athletes almost exclusively.

Baloo summed this up earlier