New professors have to fight tooth and nail to at first but once they receive a certain tenure status they almost become unfireable and make great money.
That's all I can think of. He's just been writing forever. He's probably a great writer but on screen he looks like a cinister villain from a Disney movie, and just just angry all the time. One of the most awkward things I've ever seen on ESPN was for some reason he had to interview Ronda Rousey, and he tried so hard to be happy and cheery and that the answers she was giving him were interesting he looked so uncomfortable.