As Mac talked about yesterday, there's only 14-16 plum jobs in sports radio in Chicago...that's if you include evenings. It's a tough racket. You gotta have thick skin. On social media, you're going to draw in the anonymous fringe that love to toss around the n-word and plenty of other garbage. Filter that shit out, it's not reality, it's trolling. Goff got caught up more with feeding the trolls than rising above it and concentrating on the main objective...sports entertainment.

Jonathan Hood should be pissed for being called a minstrel show.

Who is this LA dude?

While Goff isn't the best example given his own inability to program a show the general theme of the author has a lot of merit. I'm not a sports radio historian but this is the best that I know.

Here is the history of black men in Chicago sports radio that got roles during the day. You'll notice two themes. Not many. Second chances very hard to come by.

Dan Jiggetts: Helped establish The Score. Had a very successful show. Was seemingly pushed out by Mike North and wouldn't work there again. He went on to a moderately successful career though outside of sports radio, and had a failed show on Comcast Sportsnet with Mike North.
Jonathon Hood: Got one shot with a co-host that supposedly tried to torpedo the show. That show didn't work at all and he never got a second chance at the Score. He left for ESPN and has been getting some night and weekend hosting with no shot at a daytime show.
Laurence Holmes: A Score lifer who got his one chance with a HOF Bear player who wasn't going to ever be good at radio who seemingly got reviews of being one of the worst hosts in Score history. Since then it has been a running joke that he gets passed over and makes a statement how he wants his flexibility.
Jason Goff: Had to leave to Atlanta in a situation in hindsight he was destined to fail at. Got fired from there for mentioning salsa on the air. Looked to be out of radio and it took a ton of work to even let the Score hire him back since he was flagged as being fired from the other station. He got the drive time job with Dan Bernstein and got to replace Terry Boers. The show didn't work, which was a lot of his fault. Dan Bernstein gets another chance with a guy who literally won a radio reality show to get into the industry while Jason Goff is offered the chance to do the shifts that Spiegel won't take.

Meanwhile, ESPN still employs Jurko and Carmen who do terrible in the ratings, let a whole bunch of other shows run for a long time that were ratings death too after Mac left. WSCR gave Spiegel 4 partners and still will seemingly be putting him on the air with a decent chance he may one day settle back into a show. Bernstein gets partner #3, though obviously he has a track record there that is worth that. North was given just about every chance to fail and only left because he wasn't going to be paid what he thought he deserved.

So, the ultimate point is that if you are a black man looking to get into Chicago sports radio the prospects of success are really low then I think that's true. From what I can tell, ESPN has never had it, and WSCR has had 1 success story, with 3 short stints of failure with no second chances.

How many success stories are their in Chicago sports talk radio as a whole? Less than 10 people total perhaps? There was maybe a decade golden era before the business started to slow due to the Internet. And this is evidence of a conspiracy to keep black men off the air?

As your heroes on woke radio would say "small sample size".

Jiggetts had success, and then was given chance after chance. Monsters and Money in the morning ring a bell?

It's kind of funny because Goff has had three chances already.

It hasn't been 30 years though. It's been 25 for the Score and maybe 20 for MVP? And how many open spots for local talent based on your metrics? MVP was largely national programs in the early years, and it has had a national morning show for every year. So you are fighting for at most 5 shifts at two stations over two decades tops. As for retreads look to Norm Van Lier who had afternoon drive on MVP then the morning show on the Score.

Even though they do not fit your metrics Lawrence has been on forever, and so has Jonathon Hood. Tommy Williams had a long run. Outside of the very narrow field of Chicago sports radio, there seems to be quite a few black voices in the mainstream sports and entertainment media. Perhaps they have better sources than the people who told Jason that the NFL players were going to boycott the first week of the NFL last year, that Gar Foreman was going to be fired, of that Dwayne Wade was signing with the Bulls in 2010 or any of the other breaking news reports this supposed insider had that proved to not be true.

What was his third chance?

What was his third chance?

Handed afternoon drive in a major market after being bounced out of Atlanta.

He was handed a midday spot and wasn't that his second chance?