Wanted: Fox Sports Golf Producer!

With the clock ticking on the arduous task of building a fresh and innovative golf production team, sources tell me the higher-ups at Fox Sports are still trying to find their head golf honcho as the holidays near and the new USGA television deal kicks in on January 1, 2015.

My sources say that no less one NBC producer (Tommy Roy), one Golf Channel, one ESPN, and one MLB Network producer have said no (yep, baseball has its own network, and it's quite good!). At this rate, a couple of cameramen at QVC may even be saying, "good grief, no thanks." I hear another candidate is interviewing here at Fox headquarters in Los Angeles this week and the network has its fingers crossed that the long search will finally end.

I know what you're thinking: it seems odd that Fox Sports didn't have someone lined up considering it billed itself as bringing a fresh and innovative approach to golf coverage, and that a USGA Executive Committee signed off on such a deal without that visionary locked in by Fox Sports. Picky, picky.

And since on Monday of the week bids were due on a Tuesday, Fox was already offering the analyst job to Greg Norman without knowing it had the deal, maybe this producer job was already settled on, too? But you just don't understand how these complicated, insider, shady deals work. Plus, it's not easy finding someone who can put together a fresh and innovative approach to golf, especially the first-ever twelve hours of U.S. Mid-Amateur coverage.

So I called up Craigslist and lo and behold, look what I found!  That's right, an ad for the Fox Sports golf producer job. So have at it, you TV dreamers.

Oh, and here a screen capture of the full ad in case the job is filled and the ad disappears. Click to enlarge: