Kirk Herbstreit is a Douche Waffle

[satyanash 15660]

10 hours ago, royiv said:

Jesus Christ, guys. You need to take entertainment a little less seriously and leave the fucking dog out of it. 

 

[royiv 9902]

2 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

He’s the one who brought the dog into everything to try and distract everyone from how big a prick he is…

 

2 hours ago, Iceman said:

Because idiots listen to other idiots. He is a mouthpiece for the establishment. He has a national platform. It’s not like he’s some rando from Kilgore. 

You guys are letting an entertainer get under your skin. At the end of the day, none of this shit means anything. What Kirk Herbstreit says or does has no effect on your life unless he shows up at your house and fucks your wife on the Christmas dinner table.

[Pam Cummings 9887]

He really did bring that new dog around a little quickly didn't he? Where did that dog come from? He is a good boy but is there like a pipeline here? Does he have a dog bullpen?

Edited 21 hours ago by Pam Cummings

[Biff Tannen 46208]

11 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

He really did bring that new dog around a little quickly didn't he? Where did that dog come from? He is a good boy but is there like a pipeline here? Does he have a dog bullpen?

He has 3 or 4 and Ben was the oldest. 

[Armybrat 41454]

21 minutes ago, royiv said:

 

You guys are letting an entertainer get under your skin. At the end of the day, none of this shit means anything. What Kirk Herbstreit says or does has no effect on your life unless he shows up at your house and fucks your wife on the Christmas dinner table.

As long as he doesn’t knock over the gravy boat or smush the deviled eggs.

[Fudge Nuggets 19485]

16 hours ago, royiv said:

Nope. Who the fuck cares what a talking head says?

A significant portion of this board cares for some reason. A lot of them are the same posters that have to immediately come here and lose their shit anytime they see someone in a crowd shot doing the horns down. That’s one I will never figure out. 

[Iceman 2986]

50 minutes ago, royiv said:

 

You guys are letting an entertainer get under your skin. At the end of the day, none of this shit means anything. What Kirk Herbstreit says or does has no effect on your life unless he shows up at your house and fucks your wife on the Christmas dinner table.

Meh. Just countering his idiotic statements and attempts at driving public opinion. It’s ok to have the conversation, no?  He can still go fuck himself, With or without your blessing. 

Edited 20 hours ago by Iceman

[Armybrat 41454]

1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

A significant portion of this board cares for some reason. A lot of them are the same posters that have to immediately come here and lose their shit anytime they see someone in a crowd shot doing the horns down. That’s one I will never figure out. 

Mrs. Brat always gets indignant about the horns down on tv, but she’s a Southwest Texas grad….so go figure.

[Tex Long 4679]

6 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Mrs. Brat always gets indignant about the horns down on tv, but she’s a Southwest Texas grad….so go figure.

The "solution" to Horns Down is simple: embrace it. 

Horns Up, Horns Down. It don't make a shit.

You show the Horns, at all, we know we're in your head. Rent Free. Rent Free, baby. 

Wunna the games, not positive which, but I think SMU getting crushed by the Pedos, there was a crowd shot of the home teamers celebrating something, probably one of their pick-6es, and a number of them were Horns Downing. I was amused. At least there was no rhythmic slapping...

 

[sushihorn 3253]

Obsession with Horns + Can’t Get It Up 

[Herpa Derpa 6361]

3 hours ago, sushihorn said:

Obsession with Horns + Can’t Get It Up 

There's a joke about ska somewhere in this post.

[Saint Tacky 1649]

Someone needs to start a rumor that Herbie stole his new dog.

[statsman 5705]

The thing about Herbstreit is- his voice is no longer the pre-eminent one in college football. Joel Klatt knows the teams and games better than Herbstreit. Greg McElroy has passed him, too. Herbstreit is just the guy that has been around the longest. Congrats- he’s this era’s Chris Schenkel. 

[Underdog 29237]

11 minutes ago, statsman said:

The thing about Herbstreit is- his voice is no longer the pre-eminent one in college football. Joel Klatt knows the teams and games better than Herbstreit. Greg McElroy has passed him, too. Herbstreit is just the guy that has been around the longest. Congrats- he’s this era’s Chris Schenkel. 

Hush your whore mouth, Schenkel is a Legend... LEGEND! 

[billfromlaketravis 11879]

On 12/23/2024 at 9:16 PM, satyanash said:

Kirk Herbstreit is getting a huge amount of flak for his coverage of the first-round playoff games - specifically for suggesting Indiana and SMU were not good CFP selections due to their one-sided first-round losses, while ignoring Tennessee's one-sided first-round loss.

 Ben Axelrod: ESPN’s College Football Playoff coverage makes for a miserable, negative experience

 

I hate this shit. Auerbach works for NBC. They carry Big Ten games. To claim you don’t have an agenda like ESPN, and then dive into a full throated defense of Indiana is quite a move.  
 

Pawl defending Tennessee is just as transparent and despicable. 
 

That said, these people get paid to talk and stir the pot. The saner talking heads are regulated to podcasts because they don’t look a certain way and don’t say wild shit for clicks. 
 

Kirk/ESPN want to produce a TV show instead of a true playoff. As long as you keep that in mind, their comments will always be grounded in their own unique logic. 

[mdmost 44116]

All these commentators are going to defend their constituencies. Klatt shills for the Big 10 and Colorado. If he were at ESPN, he'd flip to the SEC!SEC!SEC! He's a lot more fair than most but he also has his bias. I don't hate Herbstreet like most on here but the shitting on Indiana just makes no sense after having Gameday go there and go full throated on Cignetti and what he had built. There are bound to be shitty opening games. That happens in the NFL too during Wildcard Weekend. There was no SEC team that got screwed over. They all had issues, none of them were that worthy. It's not as if they lost to other really good SEC teams. They each lost to a shit one, except South Carolina and they got pantsed OU style by Alabama. Once Tennessee went down in flames, that ended all SEC teams should've been in arguments. Maybe all the conferences just aren't that great this year because NIL has completely leveled the playing field and the teams that have been built over years are the ones rising up over the upstarts. 

[B00M 6737]

Fuck this loser

[B00M 6737]

15 minutes ago, mdmost said:

All these commentators are going to defend their constituencies. Klatt shills for the Big 10 and Colorado. If he were at ESPN, he'd flip to the SEC!SEC!SEC! He's a lot more fair than most but he also has his bias. I don't hate Herbstreet like most on here but the shitting on Indiana just makes no sense after having Gameday go there and go full throated on Cignetti and what he had built. There are bound to be shitty opening games. That happens in the NFL too during Wildcard Weekend. There was no SEC team that got screwed over. They all had issues, none of them were that worthy. It's not as if they lost to other really good SEC teams. They each lost to a shit one, except South Carolina and they got pantsed OU style by Alabama. Once Tennessee went down in flames, that ended all SEC teams should've been in arguments. Maybe all the conferences just aren't that great this year because NIL has completely leveled the playing field and the teams that have been built over years are the ones rising up over the upstarts. 

Klatt talked-up Texas pretty hard the last few years. Pretty sure he was on the bandwagon before it was obvious Texas was good again. Colorado is the only team he obviously shills for IMO. 

Edited 10 hours ago by B00M

[billfromlaketravis 11879]

Just now, B00M said:

Klatt talked-up for Texas pretty hard the last couple years. Colorado is the only team he obviously shills for IMO. 

He hypes the Big Ten because that’s his job. 

[Gatorubet 30799]

1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

He hypes the Big Ten because that’s his job. 

The fact that these people shill for their employers as part of their job is somehow triggering for people.

[B00M 6737]

1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

He hypes the Big Ten because that’s his job. 

I listened to his podcast/show a fair bit this season, undoubtedly partly because he’s never called UT a “cesspool” or been obviously anti-Texas like Kurt. Klatt’s B1G takes seemed generally fair and well reasoned. Maybe he was more of a hype man during games? 

[Surly Bevo 25785]

Joel Klatt loves to either shit on aggy overtly or damn them with faint praise. He’s good people. 

[mr. sunshine 2862]

Not too many years ago he'd go out of his way to shit on us even if there was a nice clean Buccee's stall readily available 

[Surly Bevo 25785]

We get shat on when we are a bad football team. Joel shits on aggy for being aggy. It’s a distinction with a pretty good difference. 

[RomaVicta 30652]

I like Herbstreit. He loves college football and seems to back that up with how much he knows. I don't hold grudges against things people say one time so long as their being honest. You can be honest and wrong.

I don't get the hate. Klatt is great right now. I suspect he'll say enough things he means over the years to come to make different fan bases hate him...and never forget. Klatt will be the same person. So it is with Herbstreit.

I get so bored with the idiots who overpopulate sports commentary. Herbstreit is far better than that as is Klatt. 

I'll admit that I don't follow this as closely as many of you do. He called us a cesspool. That was low and wrong. However, we sucked at the time. He doesn't hold an opinion when the facts change. Maybe we should try the same thing.

[billfromlaketravis 11879]

27 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I like Herbstreit. He loves college football and seems to back that up with how much he knows. I don't hold grudges against things people say one time so long as their being honest. You can be honest and wrong.

I don't get the hate. Klatt is great right now. I suspect he'll say enough things he means over the years to come to make different fan bases hate him...and never forget. Klatt will be the same person. So it is with Herbstreit.

I get so bored with the idiots who overpopulate sports commentary. Herbstreit is far better than that as is Klatt. 

I'll admit that I don't follow this as closely as many of you do. He called us a cesspool. That was low and wrong. However, we sucked at the time. He doesn't hold an opinion when the facts change. Maybe we should try the same thing.

The Cover 3 guys compared Herbstreit to Jon Smoltz. Biggest voice in his sport, but he also hates his sport. I think that’s fair. Instead of celebrating more CFP games he spent the broadcasts bitching about the weather, teams that got left out of the CFP, and fringe lunatic fOSU fans.

Honestly, I think he’s overworked. TNF + 4 hours of Game Day on Friday + calling the Notre Dame game + 3 hours of Game Day on Saturday + calling the Ohio State game is a really long week. He already quiet quit on the weekly CFP Rankings show, but he needs to step back more. I think he’s too proud of his craft to half ass the prep work. 
 

The cesspool comment I think came from a place of ignorance. McCombs was absolutely correct on Charlie Strong, but unfortunately it became a race thing and Herbie saw it as rich old white guys trying to derail an African American coach. 

[CTC2 2874]

4 hours ago, mdmost said:

All these commentators are going to defend their constituencies. Klatt shills for the Big 10 and Colorado. If he were at ESPN, he'd flip to the SEC!SEC!SEC! He's a lot more fair than most but he also has his bias. I don't hate Herbstreet like most on here but the shitting on Indiana just makes no sense after having Gameday go there and go full throated on Cignetti and what he had built. There are bound to be shitty opening games. That happens in the NFL too during Wildcard Weekend. There was no SEC team that got screwed over. They all had issues, none of them were that worthy. It's not as if they lost to other really good SEC teams. They each lost to a shit one, except South Carolina and they got pantsed OU style by Alabama. Once Tennessee went down in flames, that ended all SEC teams should've been in arguments. Maybe all the conferences just aren't that great this year because NIL has completely leveled the playing field and the teams that have been built over years are the ones rising up over the upstarts. 

I like Klatt. He’s in the phase where he’s still a person and not a “personality”.  KH has been a “personality” for a while now.