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Mayock Says He "Disagreed" With NBC's Decision To Pull Him From Notre Dame Booth

Analyst Mike Mayock said he "disagreed" with NBC's decision last week to replace him in the booth with Doug Flutie for Notre Dame football in '15, according to Richard Deitsch of SI.com. Mayock: "NBC went in a direction where they felt Doug Flutie in the booth and me on the sideline was a better presentation for them. I disagreed. Going forward I have total respect for NBC. They have been really, really good to me. But for my career and what I needed to do, I needed to go one way and they felt strongly about going another way. I think both parties parted with a great deal of respect for each other." Mayock said that he "has one year left on his NBC contract." Deitsch noted Mayock "has been criticized by some" for using "too much jargon or verbiage on a broadcast." Mayock said of those critiques, "It played a part. But you’d have to talk to NBC management. We had conversations and again I was highly respectful of what they wanted." However, he said he has to "be true to who I am." Mayock: "What I never want to be is a gadget or gimmick guy. ... The important thing is to recognize the intelligence of the audience and try to help them learn why a play worked or did not work. The jargon thing, I understand that any analyst had to speak to a level where even a person that doesn’t understand much abut football can understand. ... Whenever you get into verbiage, you have to be [careful] about defining it efficiently and quickly. I know I talk too much sometimes" (SI.com, 8/9).

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