ABC/ESPN Hit New Low

It was hilarious to hear the commentary on the Notre Dame-Michigan State football game earkuer tonight. Brad Musburger was the lead announcer. He was fine.

There was another fellow in the booth whose name I didn't get, but served as the seemingly required third body in the booth for football games.

The unbelievable, jaw-dropping (and funny) part was that Bob Davie was the "expert" analyst! Bob Davie! You remember him. He was once the coach at Notre Dame who almost completely destroyed the most storied football program in college history with his terrible coaching.

ABC/ESPN actually put him on the air to critique the play and coaching of the school that fired him. I believe that is a first, and one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in sports broadcasting.
To hear Davie give ND coach Charlie Weiss advice on what play to run and how to beat Michigan State shows one of two things.

One, Davie has no sense of the irony of how stupid he sounds in confidently and authoritatively giving advice on how to beat a team he could never beat. Two, someone at ABC/ESPN has a great sense of irony (and humor) on how stupid he would look.

Then again, maybe both are true. Even so, ESPN Sports continues to reinforce its reputation as the place where hapless, losing coaches go when they get fired. ESPN is not only "your home for sports." It's also a home for incompetents to become experts when nobody wants them to coach their football team.

Can Dave Wannstedt of Pittsburgh University be far behind?