ESPN Announcer Makes Extremely Awkward Mistake While Breaking Scott Frost News On-Air

It appears that ESPN announcers are unaware of which reporters still work for the company.

In the middle of this afternoon’s conference championship game between Memphis and UCF, veteran college football reporter Brett McMurphy broke the news that UCF coach Scott Frost was set to become the next head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers after signing a multi-year multi-million dollar deal.

During the in-game broadcast, longtime ESPN announcer Steve Levy referenced McMurphy’s report live on-air. Levy went on to emphasize that McMurphy was one of ESPN’s “own” reporters.

Unfortunately, McMurphy was one of the several reporters laid of by the company back in April.

Here is McMurphy’s statement from April after he got laid off.

After 5 great years, I’ve been laid off by ESPN. It was a tremendous opportunity & I enjoyed working w/a lot of really, really good people

McMurphy caught Levy’s mistake and is now openly mocking ESPN on Twitter.


It’s hard to fault Levy for the mix up considering the hundreds of people ESPN has fired in the last few months but it’s still a terrible look for the company. Hopefully ESPN does the right thing and credits McMurphy for his report later on SportsCenter.

Jorge Alonso BroBible avatar
Brobible sports editor. Jorge is a Miami native and lifelong Heat fan. He has been covering the NBA, MLB and NFL professionally for almost 10 years, specializing in digital media.