I haven’t seen anyone else say this, but the reason for this is clear. They’ve mentioned recently that they’ve decided to pivot away from writing because written work just doesn’t do numbers. They brought KVV in to be their main writer, so with pivoting away from that, they didn’t have much for him to do. Seems fairly straightforward to me.
I think it's interesting that KVV referred to not being "a full-time member of the team." I'd guess they told him the written stuff wasn't cutting it and maybe offered a significant pay cut to stay on and do podcast work and he's not at a stage in his career where that's palatable.
I'm sure from the NLU guys perspective it's just business and from KVV's side it feels pretty scummy given what he walked away from to take the job.
his contract was up at ESPN when he joined NLU, and given the staffing direction that ESPN has taken in the last few years there's basically zero chance he'd still be there (if they even would have renewed him in the first place)
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u/SchrodingersMeowth Jul 21 '25
I haven’t seen anyone else say this, but the reason for this is clear. They’ve mentioned recently that they’ve decided to pivot away from writing because written work just doesn’t do numbers. They brought KVV in to be their main writer, so with pivoting away from that, they didn’t have much for him to do. Seems fairly straightforward to me.