If you happen to be watching SportsCenter and information about college football happens across the screen, chances are you are getting your stats and insight from Todd McShay of Scouts Inc.
If you are an Internets junkie for your college football fix, Scouts Inc. plasters ESPN.com’s NFL Draft section with their top 32 prospects, Draft tracker, and ESPN Insider info from, who else, Todd McShay.
But chances are you didn’t turn on your TV or fire up your laptop for Todd F’n McShay and what he thinks about anything. You wanted the hairdo. The pride of Essex Community College outside of Baltimore. The Big Board. The voice of New York Jets draft acrimony for as long as any of us can remember.
You wanted Mel Kiper Jr. And he’s nowhere to be found.
Somethings just can’t be replaced or denied, and it looks like that’s what the four-letters is trying to do with our boy Mel. Well, there’s two things that we know to be true in life. No one puts Baby in a corner, and the force that is MKJ is far too powerful for the constraints of ESPN Insider access.
Sure, MKJ has been wrong before. Tell me YOU knew that USC’s Mike Williams would become addicted to love handles. Who didn’t hope that Akili Smith would be a star for the Bengals? And that whole Ryan Leaf thing? Dead on, baby.
Besides, MKJ single-handedly revolutionized the way the football viewing public thinks about the NFL Draft. If it wasn’t for him, you would know your team sucks, but you would have no clue that the answer to its problem might be a 6-2 cornerback out of Tennessee State.
No disrespect to Todd McShay and his hustle with Scouts Inc., but MKJ is to NFL Draft coverage what Eightball & MJG is to southern hip-hop: irreplaceable. MKJ can’t and won’t be sent to Worldwide Leader purgatory for some new kid on the block. Football and crabcakes - that’s what Maryland does.
And the NFL Draft is what Mel Kiper Jr. will always do.
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