Kirk Herbstreit addresses his emotional GameDay response to racial injustice – The Athletic

Kirk Herbstreit hardly slept prior to the start of “College GameDay” on Saturday. The ESPN college football expert said he was up between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. CT, wrestling with what he was going to say on the subject of college football gamers talking about the racial injustices they have actually dealt with during their lives.
Herbstreit had known for three days that one of the sectors on the sneak peek episode of “College GameDay” would include a roundtable conversation hosted by ESPNs Maria Taylor with college football players across the country going over systemic bigotry and their efforts to make a modification as gamer power grows in college football. The plan was for each member of the “GameDay” team (Taylor, analysts Lee Corso, Desmond …