Marcus Spears' Journey from LSU to the Dallas Cowboys to ESPN
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Andy Staples is joined by ESPN's Marcus Spears. The guys discuss Marcus' rise at ESPN, his alma mater winning the National Championship and what it's like leaving Stephen A. Smith speechless. Plus, the Big Ten and ACC have both taken a stance on a new transfer policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Andy. Thanks so much for listening. Great show today. We have an interview with former LSU Tiger, former Dallas Cowboy Marcus Spears, who is one of the biggest rising stars at ESPN. He's going to tell us how he got there, and we're going to talk about his alma mater winning the national title this year. Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:41.2 | Big one for you today. |
| 0:42.2 | We got Marcus Spears from ESPN joining us. |
| 0:45.4 | You know him, you love him. |
| 0:46.9 | Former LSU Tiger. |
| 0:48.5 | He played for the Dallas Cowboys and Bill Parcells in the NFL. |
| 0:52.0 | Now he is a rising star at ESPN. |
| 0:55.1 | He started at the SEC network. |
| 0:56.8 | He has worked his way up the chain. |
| 0:59.0 | You see him on Get Up all the time now. |
| 1:01.1 | He is one of the more hilarious people you will ever meet. |
| 1:04.4 | And I am very, very happy for his success |
| 1:06.7 | because this is a guy who is genuine. |
| 1:09.7 | And what you see on TV is exactly what you see when you meet him, |
| 1:13.0 | and that's what we need more of in what we get to see on TV. |
| 1:16.8 | So I'm very happy to have Marcus with us. |
| 1:19.7 | We're going to talk about a bunch of stuff. |
| 1:21.0 | We're going to talk about LSU winning the national title. |
| 1:24.6 | We're going to talk about his career moves, how he wound up on TV, |
| 1:28.9 | which is a great story. We're also going to talk about Mel Tucker. We're going to talk about |
| 1:32.8 | the transfer rules. It's a big show. Let's talk about those transfer rules because there is some |
| 1:38.8 | stuff going on this week. The ACC said, you know what? We're going to get behind what the big 10 has proposed. |
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