The spotlight has been on Shannon Sharpe as he prepares to exit FOX Sports and Undisputed with Skip Bayless, but there hasn't been much talk about who will replace Sharpe on the debate show. On The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz on Monday, Dan Le Batard threw that very question out to his audience.
"If you liked that show in whatever incarnations that Bayless did it in, who do you put opposite him right now that you'd want to watch it the same way?" Le Batard said. He noted that there was just the right dynamic between Sharpe and Bayless before things started going south. "Because you're hanging on to a 70-year-old star."
Le Batard, who is 54, pointed out that there are examples of debate shows still chugging along with older hosts. Pardon The Interruption on ESPN came to Dan's mind, but the point is that the landscape has evolved even in sports debate.
"Kornheiser and Wilbon are still doing it, but Shannon Sharpe is here to play a different game. Pat McAfee is here to play a different game," Le Batard said. "There is a different game being played right now. ESPN is slashing costs, there are going to be fewer and fewer of these jobs."
Suggestions of Emmanuel Acho and Chris Broussard for replacements were thrown out there, but ultimately Dan wondered who would subject themselves to the situation of having to constantly battle a guy like Bayless.
"Who wants to work next to someone every day that they don't like so much that they would on their way out the door say 'Shannon Sharpe would like your tweet,'" Dan asked.
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