ESPN has reportedly made a huge splash by hiring a high-profile insider to join its college football team.
According to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, ESPN is bringing aboard Yahoo Sports college football insider Pete Thamel. Per the report, ESPN hopes that he can become the “Adam Schefter” of college football and break news as well as contribute to ESPN.com and the network’s wide array of television programs.
Thamel, already one of the top college football insiders in the country, was busy at work earlier in the college football season. He’s broken a number of important stories recently, including the news of Brian Kelly’s departure from Notre Dame and shocking move to LSU.
Now reportedly on his way to ESPN, Thamel will have the opportunity to continue being one of the top newsbreakers in the industry. Social media was abuzz with reactions to his hire on Wednesday night, with many excited to see him make the move to his next gig.
Oh hell yeah!!!! Absolutely sensational news! Couldn’t happen to a better guy. So well deserved. Home run hire for ESPN! #Cuse #Faegans #DailyOrange #WAER #FlipNight #PJDorseys #Colemans #LouKnows https://t.co/wKV7oMIYdY
— Adam Schein (@AdamSchein) January 13, 2022
He will kick tail over there. One last pod tomorrow and then he will only be allowed on for MAC strength coach hires. https://t.co/Tv2nYz6i8H
— Sean Sullivan (@sullyvol) January 13, 2022
Best in the biz https://t.co/IyjeCAPIdK
— Mike Laprey (@mlaprey) January 13, 2022
Huge news https://t.co/R0w0ji42BK
— Antwan V. Staley (@antwanstaley) January 13, 2022
Wow. Huge loss for Yahoo, which has lost Thamel and Forde in the past 15 months. https://t.co/gXlJ0QfBEx
— Kyle Rowland (@KyleRowland) January 13, 2022
Didn’t know @PeteThamel was in the transfer portal.
Oh no does this mean he is leaving @DanWetzel and @ByPatForde on the podcast. Please no. https://t.co/NU7YAADWmX— Nicholas Huba (@ACPressHuba) January 13, 2022
Thamel began at Yahoo in 2017 after spending five years as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated covering college football and basketball, according to his bio on the Yahoo Sports website. Before that he spent nine years as the national college sports reporter for the New York Times.
As first reported by @AndrewMarchand, ESPN has hired Pete Thamel to be its lead college football insider. What I can add of interest is Thamel will be a weekly part of @CollegeGameDay. It doesn’t mean he’ll be onsite every week but he’ll be a major figure on that show.
— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) January 13, 2022
ESPN declined to comment on the report of Thamel’s hiring.
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