Twenty-four months withdrawn from being cut by EspnDavid Pollack has a positive rotation on his dismissal. The first Georgia Second ALL-AMERICAN was taken in the layoffs in June 2023 which included Max Kellerman,, Suzy flasks And several other ESPN personalities in the air.
At the time, Pollack was amazed. He had been in ESPN for almost 15 years, traveling across the country every fall to College gameday. He never had a last live show to soak up the atmosphere.
“I was really surprised,” he recently told On3. “I didn’t know it was going to happen. My phone sounded, and I said to myself: “Oh, cool. Lee adjusted. I spoke to Lee all the time, just to kick him. You could somehow feel it. It was not his fault.
Pollack shared on social networks in March that his wife, Lindsey, has brain cancer and went to surgery. Her departure from ESPN released his schedule, allowing him to be with his wife and two children constantly as she fights against cancer.
“Just day after day,” he recently told On3. “It is a daily version. It was difficult, it was fun and it was rewarding. We grew up a lot with the family. ”
The chance to move away from the daily life of College gameday And being with his family gave Pollack a new interpretation of his ESPN dismissal. He said that he also trained girl’s basketball and football for his children.
He started his own podcast, “See Ball Get Ball with David Pollack”, to keep his university football fresh.
“I was not all frustrated,” recalls Pollack for being released. “It’s part of life. Much of life accepts that sometimes people make decisions, and that affects you. There are people across the country with bad news and have difficult news. Unfortunately for my life, it was something I was used to. I had a lot of moments. Worthy of being in the series, especially at the beginning, because I learned the profession.
“I was not on television for more than a few seasons when I was doing College Gameday. It is not normal. I was very grateful, I was able to bring my children with me to so many different places. I could see so many different atmospheres, meet so many major coaches and establish so many solid relationships. ”
Even if Pollack has gone from ESPN, university football fans resumed who replaced it. The first College gameday The analyst’s seat is now filled with Pat McAfee. The old bettor of the virginie-Western and Indianapolis colts was in the series in the last years of Pollack and has since become a basic food, seated between Nick Saban And Kirk Herbstreit.
Pollack admitted that he had felt that he would not be a place for the two personalities in the show.
“This is a subject that people always want to talk about, but I do not have the impression that it was Pat’s fault,” he said. “Pat was hired to do a job, just as I would have been called to do a job. I don’t feel like Pat was the reason, no. They hired Pat, and Pat is really good in what it does, very different, very unique. Many times, when you do not spend much money on a program, there are also levels across the country and which did not. I was not on the right side.
Pollack refused to get into the details of the offers he has been made since ESPN separated. The return to a television network is attractive, but for the moment, it focuses on time to spend time with his family. “What a blessing is to be with it all the time,” he said.
Not being on the road in the fall took the time to get used to it. Sitting in production meetings, discussing with coaches and having dinners with ACVIS No longer part of the Pollack routine. The camaraderie of being on the show equaled the pleasure of being around thousands of fans on Saturday during the university football season.
“The locker room is what you like in football,” he said. “No one is going,” jeepers, guy, I really want to go out in this heat at 100 degrees and fight each other. “No one is only doing this at 40. Yeah.
“All these guys you spend 15 years. It’s not 15 days, it’s 15 years. You become very good friends, and even if you had your own life and your own little worlds, they were a large part of yours.”
