You never know where your opportunity is going to come from…All you can hope for is that it comes sooner rather than later…And that you’ll be ready when it does…Mine came when i was a graduate student here at Boston University and i can , unequivocally, say i wasn’t ready but I did know enough to grab or the brass ring….I was a student volunteer…What was the worst thing that could happen, they’d fire me?…Forty two years later, I learn something new every day…<\/p>\n
You never know…For Mike Flynn<\/a>, born in Pennsylvania, raised in Agawam, Ma, playing football came naturally…Undrafted out of the University of Maine, Flynn signed on with the Baltimore Ravens, an opportunity all of its own, but when he proved to be a good interview, producers of the Ravens television show asked Flynn to be a co-host… It sounded good at the beginning but Flynn soon realized he’d be commenting on players he’d lined up alongside: \u00a0“I had a responsibility to criticize a guy…It was difficult …But looking back I probably wasn’t as critical as I should have been…You learn…Just don’t make the guy look like a fool”…<\/p>\n You never know…Darwin Zook took a more circuitous route to his now job at 1510 AM Boston…Like many students he started at the college radio station but transitioned into production and eventually into television programming ,doing everything from being a location manager to being a contestant on the short lived “Love in the Wild” <\/a>…That led to a gig on “Dirty Water TV” <\/a>on the New England Sports Network and finally to 1510…Zook found that having relatives from the area brought a whole new kind of pressure he wasn’t quite ready for: “Oh boy, what’s my family going to think of this…and it’s still that way(after all these months).”<\/p>\n You never know…By the time Trenni Kusnierek<\/a> got to Boston she’d worked in Eu Claire, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee…You would think she’d have been ready to handle any negative comments about being the new kid in town and being a female as well…As it turned out it didn’t make much difference:\u00a0“One thing I have learned and unfortunately Twitter has brought it to the forefront is that people just won’t like you regardless of gender.”…Like Zook, \u00a0Kusnierek wasn’t always sure she’d make it in sports television…She’d had opportunities in other platforms but not even a Change of Heart<\/a><\/em> could dissuade her from her dreams of reporting on sports…<\/span><\/p>\n Being a newcomer brings all kinds of \u00a0challenges to young journalists…But nothing comes easy, right?…You’re ready, you’re able….just remember – You never know….<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You never know where your opportunity is going to come from…All you can hope for is that it comes sooner rather than later…And that you’ll be ready when it does…Mine came when i was a graduate student here at Boston University and i can , unequivocally, say i wasn’t ready but I did know enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}