Frankly I don't care if he is a success on that stage. If going "national" forces him to abandon the herpes snacking he did on "Legend's" feces-stained weiner and the bowing and scraping he did for utter blowhard retards like DeadShane, Darryl, Tammy etc. then I'm okay with whatever he does.
Going "national" means he has to put most of the Bama partisanship aside and bury a lot of the anti-Auburn rhetoric.
It has nothing to do with human nature, really. He can't sustain a national show if douchebags like Legend in his own 12 IQ mind, K-Dumb, any of the facile Jims, and that horde of barely functioning dipsticks have regular call in times every single day.
Yeah, he'll stir the pot but it has to be a MUCH bigger pot and he won't have time to give Tammy 15 minutes a day to bellow like a drunk meth whore.
Honestly? ESPN didn't hire him to take the AU/UA fight national. They hired him to expand that fight to a bunch of other combatants.
If I read him right he's all about himself (always has been) and he'll leave those Legend-like cretins wallowing in his dust as he reinvents himself. He'll fish for a national bunch of idiots who will call up and scream about Ohio State and Michigan, USC and UCLA, etc. Of course he'll still have the show on the SEC network, but he will have to stray from the safety of the AU/AL brawl for even that to fly.
Count me as one who's glad for the move. He's all about promoting himself and with a bigger scope now, he'll find other targets to blast. AU will move off his radar.
I listened. You listened. Everybody listened. At least most of us did. Hated him and his callers. But, we listened. That's all that matters to him. I admire his success. He knows what he's doing and how to entertain the mass. So does Howard Stern, Jo Ben and Billy, Lex and Teddy, etc.
One thing I appreciate is the interview on BSPN in which he actually stuck up for AU. He made sense. I don't know what was in it for him but I'm sure there was something.