Franklin out at ESPN

[D-3 Fan]

This story was from the "Everything Bowl" thread, and it's a good idea to make this a separate thread, since the news is now fresh. Richard Deitsch confirmed it on Twitter and Brooks just posted it on his site.

Courtesy of Sports by Brooks: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/ron-franklin-fired-by-espn-never-apologized-29397

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Was Franklin the guy who suffered the stroke a year or so ago?

 

[Armchair_QB]

Was Franklin the guy who suffered the stroke a year or so ago?

You're thinking of his former analyst Mike Gottfried.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Why did he call her an asshole?

 

[D-3 Fan]

Gottfried suffered the stroke about a few (3-4) years ago.

The original CFB crew of Franklin (fired), Gottfried (stroke), and Adrian (suicide) are no longer with ESPN.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Why did he call her an asshole?

I'm going to paste this, since it was linked.

Scheduled to work on the ESPN-TV broadcast of the Chick-fil-A Bowl Friday, Franklin and Edwards were part of a production meeting before the game that was also attended by ESPN announcers Ed Cunningham and Rod Gilmore. During the meeting, the subject of Gilmore’s wife Marie being elected Alameda (CA) mayor came up.

As Gilmore, Cunningham and Franklin discussed the subject, Edwards tried to join the conversation.

When she did, Franklin said to her, “Why don’t you leave this to the boys, sweetcakes.”

Edwards responded to Franklin by saying, “don’t call me sweetcakes, I don’t like being talked to like that.”

Franklin then said, “okay then, a–hole.”

After the meeting Edwards reported Franklin’s comments to ESPN management.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Yeah, I usually think people overreact and are overly sensitive about something being un-PC.

This is not one of those cases. He absolutely deserved to be canned.

 

[Ace]

Don't let the door hit you on the sweetcheeks on the way out, Ron.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Will Mike Tirico comment on this?

 

[Bob Cook]

This wasn't his first trouble with the female staff, correct? Didn't he have a run-in like this before?

 

[Beaker]

This wasn't his first trouble with the female staff, correct? Didn't he have a run-in like this before?

Yup, with Holly Rowe. Buckweaver posted this link on ESPN journalism likes thread: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/richard_deitsch/01/03/media.franklin/index.html

 

[Matt Stephens]

Growing up in Big 12 country, it's going to be weird not having him and Fran call games together.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Was Franklin the guy who suffered the stroke a year or so ago?

You're thinking of his former analyst Mike Gottfried.

OK. Thanks.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Growing up in Big 12 country, it's going to be weird not having him and Fran call games together.

Actually, I'm old enough to remember when Franklin and Jon Sundvold did the Big 8/Big12 games on Monday nights. The days of Orr, Tubbs, Stewart, Kruger, Larry Brown, and good ol' Roy.

 

[TigerVols]

Growing up in Big 12 country, it's going to be weird not having him and Fran call games together.

Actually, I'm old enough to remember when Franklin and Jon Sundvold did the Big 8/Big12 games on Monday nights. The days of Orr, Tubbs, Stewart, Kruger, Larry Brown, and good ol' Roy.

...you forget to mention TigerVols on press row for many of those games. Ahh, the good ol' days.

 

[exmediahack]

With the Phillips 66 Big 8 Tournament from Kemper. A damn good batch of coaches then... Tubbs, Brown, Orr, Kruger, Stewart, Danny Nee. Oh, wait, not Danny Nee.

 

[playthrough]

Good fire.

 

[Gator]

Mike Tirico doesn't see what the big deal is.

 

[exmediahack]

I'd love to be like that in production meetings...

Bold and boisterous. And now out of a gig.

 

[Mark2010]

It's sort of sad when one offhand comment is given more weight than all the positive things accomplished over a 20-year period.