I don't think it will play well on the national scale. The SEC?
Hard to say.
I really don't think THAT many people listened to his ass. Yeah, he had a relatively captive audience in Birmingham and now has that again. But in Atlanta where people have options? In Charlotte, Nashville, Lexington, New Orleans, Orlando, Jacksonville, Gainesville, St. Louis... where there are legitimate options to hear about the programs they care about? Will his crappy schtick fly?
In St. Louis where they want to hear news about the Blues, the Cardinals and the Rams (is that right?) and about Mizzou even. Are they going to sit through a 15 minute retardo rant from Darryl when they can flip the channel and get local sports talk?
He had the same 20 callers every single day. Every one ignorant in his/her own way. I don't think that sustains when there's another option.
Jerry Springer works on Channel 54 at 1 a.m. He wouldn't work on ABC at 10:30.
I don't think he can make this work. What ESPN doesn't realize is that even here, most intelligent people consider him a joke.