Awful Announcing podcast: ESPN’s Maria Taylor talks re-signing with ESPN, the SEC, Get Up, the 2018 college football season, and more

This week on the Awful Announcing podcast, ESPN’s Maria Taylor joins host Ben Heisler.

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Taylor and Heisler chatted about a number of topics, including her new contract with the company, her new role on Get Up, the culture of the SEC, the 2018 college football season, and much more.

• On her new deal/going from volleyball & women’s basketball to everything she’s doing in just four years (2:17)
• How she’d love to do something the NBA as part of all the work she’s doing (3:44)
• How she once considered a career in medicine (5:33)
• Her first ever broadcast (6:30)
• The Taylor Rowe’d Trip with Holly Rowe (9:48)
• The best way to describe SEC Football & SEC Football Culture (12:06)
• The study that 45% of CFB fans are female (roughly 74 million fans) (15:43)
• What could college football and/or the NCAA fix – welfare of the student athletes / future of athletes being paid (19:08)
• Her new opportunity with Get Up (22:25)
• How she’ll handle giving strong opinions on subjects that she also happens to cover (used Ohio State as an example) (23:52)
• Her ultimate goal of being on Good Morning America (25:40)
• Who she would take in College Fantasy Football in Week 1 (28:13)

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