Replacing Kravitz at the Indianapolis Star is...

Writers? Sure, plenty of them.

Columnists? Woody Paige went back to The Denver Post after doing just ESPN stuff for a couple years. It's not really the same as this though.

 

Didn't see that coming. They wanted impact. They got impact. Great for them.
Kravitz challenged people, but Gregg takes that form to a whole notha level.

 

Yeah, I'm a big Kravitz fan and have been back to his days in Denver.

Doyel is a top 5 guy, IMO. There are few columnists who are almost never boring and ones who will take stances that they know won't be popular.

I will read the Star regularly when he starts.

 

Just checked out IndyStar.com and Doyel's hiring is the lead story.

I guess the question is, will he and Ramos be able to coexist?

 

GREAT hire for Indianapolis. I miss reading Kravitz's work, but this sharpens the Star's staff big time.

 

They hire a columnist who undoubtedly costs as much as four or five of their recent laidoff employees, and we're throwing confetti? I enjoy Gregg Doyel as much as the next guy, but that feeling of surprise is generated by the lack of logic.

 

One thing has nothing to do with the other. They were getting rid of those people no matter what.

The Star was in a strange spot, Kravitz was so highly paid that they could actually afford Doyel. I have no idea how much Doyel was making at CBS Sports and if they had told him he wasn't needed, or if he felt unappreciated or what. I don't think CBS Sports pays as well as some may think. I have friends there in positions that one would assume are extremely highly-paid and they make considerably less that people might think.

One person who recently left CBS Sports for another place, I found out how much the new place was paying him and I was stunned that he wasn't making that much at CBS Sports.

If Doyel was making the same as the other guy was, he might have gotten a raise to go to Indy.

 

The overpaid sports columnist is such a fantastically newspaper construct.

 

Dumb question: Is NFL.com separate from NFL Network? The people I know at NFL Network are pretty well-paid. I was actually surprised at how much one of my friends got.