ND's Talking Heads ... The good, bad & ugly

[dublinirish]

Never heard that, but you can tell from his on air personality that he's probably the same narcissistic dude in real life.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Hey uhhh is this the right thread for talking about this? These aren’t exactly ND writers

 

[dublinirish]

Hey uhhh is this the right thread for talking about this? These aren’t exactly ND writers

we dont have a greater sports media thread

 

[calvegas04]

Yes let's get back on topic

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

I was scrolling through this thinking I was in the gentlemen's club
then finish with Vince Depoopio
I'm so, confused, now

 

[dublinirish]

Say what you like about Vince but he’d never whore himself like that to rise up the ranks at IB


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[CanadalovesND]

Say what you like about Vince but he’d never whore himself like that to rise up the ranks at IB


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He technically founded it with Bryan. So he's already at the top. The only consequence = listening to Driskell talk for three hours.

 

[Fbolt]

Driskell isn't terrible IMO - Vince, OTOH, is horrible. Terrible takes, such a sycophant to BD, and if I have to hear his commercials or him say Nug's or Bing Bang Boom.... I get he's doing his thing, but damn he stinks.

 

[Irishdwarte]

He definitely stinks especially when he shits his pants.

 

[calvegas04]

Driskell isn't terrible IMO - Vince, OTOH, is horrible. Terrible takes, such a sycophant to BD, and if I have to hear his commercials or him say Nug's or Bing Bang Boom.... I get he's doing his thing, but damn he stinks.

Driskell is horrible and way to sensitive

 

[Fbolt]

He can be and is certainly arrogant-but I can read between the tea leaves.

 

[ulukinatme]

Driskell isn't terrible IMO

 

[Hautian Domer]

Yes let's get back on topic

Can anyone link this precise episode and time? I’d like to go back and watch it for laughs.

 

[dublinirish]

Vince's kid signed with the bastion of free speech Hillsdale College. Driskell would go cold turkey on Mountain Dew for such an honor

 

[NDMatt91]

Vince's kid signed with the bastion of free speech Hillsdale College. Driskell would go cold turkey on Mountain Dew for such an honor

I'm shocked that you brought politics into another sports thread

 

[pumpdog20]

Kudos to his kid being able to continue playing the sport he loves. Millions of high school kids would cherish that opportunity.

 

[Dale]

 

[Dale]

One of the crazier lies I’ve ever heard. It’s LeBron level obviously not true.

You narrate videos and then text them to your son to post? You let your son call people names and curse on your twitter? Your son tweets at your peers pretending to be you?

 

[IrishLion]

The video Kirk posted, a first-person narration of Kirk walking on ND’s campus in the snow before College Gameday with his dog, talking about how much Kirk loves the environment and enjoying seeing his dog in the snow for the first time (doesn’t he live in TN? Unless his dog is less than a year old, that dog has seen snow lol)… wasn’t actually Kirk?

What a weird way to get out of being roasted for a shitty take and then doubling down with combative responses that made no sense.

“It’s actually my son, haven’t posted on Twitter myself in years”

Kirk is not only turning into a bitter douchebag, but now he’s a cowardly liar, too. You want to monologue for three minutes like a no-no sense hardass on how Indiana didn’t belong, and how other teams deserved it more?? Don’t back down and get offended when they come for you! Embrace that shit, be the villain you want to try and be! Either fully commit to the bit as a shill for the big programs, or don’t say anything at all.

 

[dublinirish]

i still stand by my theory that Kirk introduced the dogs into his PR image because he's done something really shitty in his personal life and he is trying to get ahead of the story..

 

[Huntr]

That guy is so full of shit he squeaks when he walks.

 

[Huntr]

i still stand by my theory that Kirk introduced the dogs into his PR image because he's done something really shitty in his personal life and he is trying to get ahead of the story..

Yeah, he fucked a cop's wife. That's why they moved from C-bus.

 

[IrishLion]

Yeah, he fucked a cop's wife. That's why they moved from C-bus.

I thought it was because of how toxic Buckeyes fans had become in everyday interactions when he still lived in Ohio?

To be fair, they didn’t handle it well when they realized he was going for “fair analysis” instead of just homering for the Buckeyes at all times

 

[irishff1014]

The video Kirk posted, a first-person narration of Kirk walking on ND’s campus in the snow before College Gameday with his dog, talking about how much Kirk loves the environment and enjoying seeing his dog in the snow for the first time (doesn’t he live in TN? Unless his dog is less than a year old, that dog has seen snow lol)… wasn’t actually Kirk?

What a weird way to get out of being roasted for a shitty take and then doubling down with combative responses that made no sense.

“It’s actually my son, haven’t posted on Twitter myself in years”

Kirk is not only turning into a bitter douchebag, but now he’s a cowardly liar, too. You want to monologue for three minutes like a no-no sense hardass on how Indiana didn’t belong, and how other teams deserved it more?? Don’t back down and get offended when they come for you! Embrace that shit, be the villain you want to try and be! Either fully commit to the bit as a shill for the big programs, or don’t say anything at all.

He has been for a while now

 

[greyhammer90]

One of the crazier lies I’ve ever heard. It’s LeBron level obviously not true.

You narrate videos and then text them to your son to post? You let your son call people names and curse on your twitter? Your son tweets at your peers pretending to be you?

I don't know if he's too busy/stressed or just reaching a new level of narcissism, but he's become a total headcase lately

 

[Old Man Mike]

My unearned opinion of Kirk Herbstreit is that he usually does try to do his job as he is asked. But also that he is oddly mismatched with the world he has chosen to work in. He appears to me to have been naive about openness and honesty in the dealings of sports media, and generally too "soft" for the big bad real world. Things which most of us would stand up to and tolerate, he almost chickens out on. I recall how scared he was that Corso would stick him with his pencil during a "not so fast, my friend" shtick. Corso later turned the pencil around so Kirk wouldn't flinch away. Kirk also is always the one trying to get away when gunfire is shot near set. His scaredy-catness shows in its extremity when he finds that only being half an OSU homer isn't good enough, and "fan reaction" scares him entirely out of the state.

I believe that Herbstreit is the guy who wants to be that nice clean-cut boy next door who everybody likes, but in his business that's pretty impossible (so he ducks and runs a lot.) That sort of mentality also makes one "thoughtful" however, in that you think a lot about issues that you'll face, trying to avoid confrontation and "stress." So, you're a soft thinking person who runs when little things go South. The fact that he is very football smart, and his demeanor makes him non-threatening and often insightful, keeps him his job.

 

[ColinKSU]

Vince's kid signed with the bastion of free speech Hillsdale College. Driskell would go cold turkey on Mountain Dew for such an honor

Don't know the kid, hope for nothing but the best for him. Can't imagine a more "Irish Breakdown energy" college to commit to than Hillsdale.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

I listened to the interview. He was saying he didn’t intend to single out Indiana. LOL…but you did. He also stated he never mentioned an SEC team was more deserved & listed off why Bama & South Carolina didn’t deserve it (don’t think he mentioned Ole Miss but could’ve missed it). His point was that what if, say; Iowa went 9-3 but they had to travel to C’bus, Ann Arbor, Happy Valley & Madison yet when one goes down IU‘s schedule, you have to go all the way down to Michigan before you find a decent win. Ari explained that when he didn’t mention a non-SEC team in the scenario he just laid out, he left it wide open to interpretation by SEC fans/media that he was saying one of their 3-loss teams deserved CFP bid over teams like IU. He apologized for leaving that impression.

Problem is he seems to be conveniently leaving out that Iowa nor any other B1G team was in that reality. The only other team I recall people clamoring for outside the three 3-loss SEC teams was Miami but he never mentioned them either. I believe him that he’s a B1G guy away from the analyst role, but he’s also called a ton of high profile games where the SEC teams typically comes out on top. He should never agreed to go on with Linda Cohn’s west coast SportsCenter after a long day like that when he said he was on edge & ready to go to sleep. It led to his true feelings coming out & now he’s trying to backtrack b/c the narrative was shattered after Tennessee & UGA lost in convincing fashion.

 

[BobbyMac]

Never gets old for me.

Love Dickie V.

 

[NDQuebec]

FWIW, the ISD Power Hour podcast this week is a very interesting one. Amongst other things, they discuss Allar and show stats that, if he is under pressure, he will have a pretty hard time.