Studio Analyst Bios for National Signing Day
Rece Davis
Rece Davis serves as primary studio host for ESPN and ESPN2’s coverage of college football and college basketball and he calls the ESPN College Football Primetime Thursday night game on ESPN. Davis is the host of ESPN’s Saturday college football pregame, halftime and postgame studio coverage and College Football Final with analysts Lou Holtz and Mark May. He is also the host of ESPN’s College GameDay basketball road show and calls select college basketball games.
Bruce Feldman
Bruce Feldman is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine, joining ESPN in 1994. He was a regular contributor to ESPNU: The Experts this season. Feldman spent a good portion of two years in the South working on his book, Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting and also authored Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment.
Lowell Galindo
Lowell Galindo works primarily on ESPNU with his assignments including hosting stand-alone specials and studio shows such as SportsCenterU, Monday BCS Countdown, The Experts, Thursday Recruiting Insider and ESPNU Campus Connection. In addition, Galindo’s responsibilities include studio pregame, halftime and postgame hosting duties for many of ESPNU’s live events.
Craig Haubert
Craig Haubert is an analyst for ESPNU and a recruiting coordinator for Scouts Inc. His more than a decade of coaching experience includes an assistant at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and as the FB/LB coach and director of football operations for the Detroit Fury of the Arena Football League.
Kirk Herbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit has been an analyst on ESPN’s College GameDay remote college football studio show since August 1996. He has been a game analyst on the Saturday Night Football series on ABC, broadcast television’s first weekly prime-time college football game, since the series debut in 2006. Herbstreit was a game analyst on the popular ESPN Thursday Night Football series from 1999-2006. Herbstreit joined ESPN in September 1995 as a college football sideline analyst. He was a standout Ohio State quarterback, graduating in 1993.
Tom Luginbill
Tom Luginbill joined ESPN in 2005 after the company acquired Scouts Inc., where he served as a pro personnel evaluator for the NFL, NFL Europe, the Canadian Football League and the Arena Football League. Now as national director of recruiting, he provides in-depth recruiting analysis of the top collegiate football prospects for Recruiting Insider on ESPN.com and is the lead studio recruiting analyst for several ESPNU shows, including ESPNU Recruiting Insider, The Experts and BCS Countdown.
Corey Long
Corey Long has been covering high school football and recruiting in Florida since 1995. He spent nearly a dozen years working for the Lakeland Ledger, Gainesville Sun, St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune. From 2006-10, Long was the managing editor of FNF Florida, an annual publication dedicated to high school football and recruiting in Florida, and FUEL Magazine, a set of publications that honored student-athletes from across the nation.
Jamie Newberg
Jamie Newberg has covered recruiting in the Southeast and nationally for 19 years, working for Rivals.com and Scout.com; writing for SI.com, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and St. Petersburg Times; and TV and radio shows on Fox Sports South, CSS and 790 The Zone (in Atlanta). Newberg is a three-time Emmy Award winner for work on Countdown to Signing Day, and he first launched BorderWars.com in 1996 covering college football recruiting in the Southeast.
Randy Shannon
Randy Shannon is the former head coach at the University of Miami and held a 28-22 record in his four years at the helm. He played college football for Miami, starting at outside linebacker for the 1987 national championship team. After graduating in 1988, Shannon played briefly as a linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys. Shannon spent all of his career in Miami, working all but two years for the Hurricanes in various coaching positions and from 1998-2000, he was with the Miami Dolphins.
Robert Smith
Robert Smith is a two-time NFL Pro Bowl selection, who began his broadcast career with ESPN in 2007. He regularly contributes to College Football Live, is an analyst on ESPN and ESPN2 midweek college football games and occasionally appears on Outside the Lines. Smith starred as a running back at Ohio State from 1990-92 and for the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings from 1993-2000.
