ESPN Signs College Football Analyst Joey Galloway to Multi-Year Contract Extension
ESPN has signed college football analyst Joey Galloway to a multi-year contract extension, according to a source familiar with the deal. ESPN announced the extension on Monday, and the 26-year-old former NFL player will be earning about $2 million a year at the time of his extension.
The deal is one of the NFL’s highest-paid contracts, and ESPN said its new deal with Galloway will net him about $1. 5 million for the season he’s slated to start in 2015.
ESPN also announced that Gail Davis, the former NFL player and anchor of NFL Films, will be the new co-host of College GameDay. Davis was previously the co-host of Saturday Night Live with Michael Che and Che was the co-host of NFL Network’s NFL Live with Colin Cowherd. Davis’ contract with ESPN expired in April and it was reported last month that his new deal will be two-to-three-years, which is considerably shorter than what is being offered by the NFL and that he will make just $500,000 per year.
Davis’ new contract comes after ESPN reached a deal with Gail McCann to continue as host of College GameDay, despite McCann’s retirement announced by the network on May 18.
This is a great signing for ESPN that keeps Gail Davis in the fold. It’s going to be amazing to continue the relationship with Gail and McCann in a way which will benefit both of them instead of the networks only. I hope they continue to try to extend the deal until they can come to an agreement with McCann on her pay.
College Football Hall of Famer Jim Clark, who has been with ESPN since 1987 as the College Football Analyst, is coming out of retirement to become a senior analyst on Sunday Night Football.
ESPN Contract Extension on Multiple Years with Joey Galloway
ESPN has announced that it has signed Joey Galloway to a multi-year contract extension for four years and a $14. 5 million dollar starting salary. Galloway is the first player in team history to earn a $14. 5 million dollar salary during the 2013 season. Galloway’s contract also includes a $12. 9 million dollar annual escalator upon his third season. The contract extension also includes a $10 million dollar signing bonus which is due at the close of the 2012-2013 campaign. Galloway’s deal is reportedly worth a guaranteed $13. million over the first 4 years of the deal. Galloway has signed a three-year, $22. 5 million deal. Galloway has been drafted by the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft prior to joining the ESPN broadcast network.
ESPN has announced that it has signed Joey Galloway to a multi-year contract extension for four years and a $14. 5 million dollar starting salary. Galloway is the first player in team history to earn a $14. 5 million dollar salary during the 2013 season. Galloway’s contract also includes a $12. 9 million dollar annual escalator upon his third season. The contract extension also includes a $10 million dollar signing bonus which is due at the close of the 2012-2013 season. Galloway’s deal is reportedly worth a guaranteed $13. million over the first 4 years of the deal. Galloway has signed a three-year, $22. 5 million deal. Galloway has been drafted by the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft prior to joining the ESPN broadcast network.
ESPN has announced that it has signed Joey Galloway to a multi-year contract extension for four years and a $14. 5 million dollar starting salary. Galloway is the first player in team history to earn a $14. 5 million dollar salary during the 2013 season. Galloway’s contract also includes a $12. 9 million dollar annual escalator upon his third season. The contract extension also includes a $10 million dollar signing bonus which is due at the close of the 2012-2013 campaign. Galloway’s deal is reportedly worth a guaranteed $13.
The ESPN contribution to the college football playoff
The ESPN and College Football Playoff sponsorship was not a surprise on the surface. It’s almost a joke that they wanted to put the NCAA, the SEC, and the CFP playoff on the same broadcast. The fact that this was their second year with the CFP and they have their first year to go after the SEC in the rankings seems more like a surprise.
But the irony is that ESPN has built up a reputation for wanting to put the SEC on their networks despite it being over 50% less valuable to the company in terms of advertising revenue than the conference as a whole. For example, when the SEC lost the SEC Network contract with ESPN, they were in a position to put their network on the same network with the SEC Network for the first time in history and they did so. What they didn’t do was get the current SEC Network contract renewed and put their conference on the same network. Because of this, I’m guessing the SEC would be a much more valuable market to ESPN for their next contracts.
That’s not to say that all of the SEC isn’t a valuable market. It’s just that, in order to get their contracts renewed, the SEC would have to have its own network and a large amount of money for that network to be worth keeping that contract. So, the problem is, if the SEC isn’t represented on ESPN, the SEC has very little leverage to get a contract renewed.
That said, the CFP rankings were going to be the CFP’s largest single event. ESPN would love to have all the conferences on their network, but they would rather not because that would force ESPN to get the SEC and the SEC has become a much less valuable market to them and their contracts would be on the line for putting on their network in the first place.
That doesn’t mean that the rankings would not have been a big deal, just that it would have been a much bigger deal that the SEC would get its contract renewed and on the line.
A Conversation with Joey Galloway
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[Editor’s Note: Since writing this article, Joey Galloway has decided to take a two year hiatus from his work in the IT industry. His current position is at the software development company, LJN Technologies (LJN is one of the largest tech companies in the country. Founded in 2004 by Joey Galloway, LJN has grown to become a company that employs over 1000 people in California.
Joey Galloway was a student in his undergraduate years when he decided to leave his college career for a career in IT. As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, Joey was able to pick up his technical skills at the age of seventeen, and he took his programming skills with him on his move back to the greater Seattle area after undergrad. Joey got his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in 1992, and he went on to receive his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1997.
After getting his D. and CS degrees, Joey worked as a software engineer in the early 1990’s, and he joined a software company called LJN to work on their wireless networking project. Joey returned to Washington State in 1994, and he went to work at the University of Washington again to work on a project to update the website for the UW Computer Science Department. Joey was a part of the team that finished the major task that was assigned for the next year, and for three years, he worked on a project focused on building a real-time wireless communications system. At this point, Joey’s programming skills had progressed to the point that he was able to work autonomously in the software, which is something a programmer often has to do in order to work on projects.
Joey found another job, this time at the University of Washington, as an Associate Technical Fellow. While working part-time for the University of Washington was something Joey enjoyed very much, he was excited to take on a full-time position and work on the UW wireless networking project. The project was a large one, and Joey was able to take on the project with his programming skills and knowledge.
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