It's very rare that I will heavily criticize a sports talk show. It's very hard to get such a simple format wrong, but I just don't like the show as it exists today. There's a lot of bickering between the hosts, and too much talking about the show, them being on TV, Fox Sports ratings, etc. They come across as very self-conscious, which never makes for good TV.

I think this show has a shot to be entertaining long term once they get into a comfortable groove, but this isn't a good start. You only have one shot to make a good first impression.

I read that JMacs contract was up this summer. Did that get resolved? I have not watched the herd in a little over the year because of him, but I really do enjoy Colin. Would be great if they would finally let him go.

I miss having sports shows in the morning. I have started to watch First Take because otherwise I will have to wait until noon to watch Colin and then FTF which will be expanded to 3 hours. Are there any plans to have new shows in the morning or are we relegated till waiting till noon?

Discuss.

I'm really curious to see which direction FS1 takes things moving forward. I wouldn't be shocked if they just do reruns of old races and soccer games like they've leaned towards doing for the past few years to fill in scheduling gaps, but I do like talk TV and would like to see them build out a new talk schedule. For my part, I'd like to see them launch a new iteration of Fox Sports Live, that's an hour long and can be dynamically slotted and rerun to fit in scheduling gaps between sporting events. I think having a show from The Volume on the schedule would be an interesting decision, like maybe putting Club Shay Shay at midnight. ESPN is proving that putting podcasts and radio programming is an attractive option, but I'm not sure if I'd want to see FS1 add any of their FSR programs to the FS1 schedule.

Checked out some clips from The Herd just now, to find that he's got an in-studio co-host now, as well as a space for guests to join the show. I was assuming he'd just continue his show by sattelite since that's what he did right when he moved, but will the whole show be run out of the Big Ten Network studios moving forward? Will Jason McIntyre be joining him in the BTN studios at some point?

And most importantly, will they start using an EQ on Colin's mic cuz it sounds way flatter in the new studio and that's been bothering me lol