Herron is really good. I've enjoyed him, especially since he does hits on the Score. Leman is probably more busy doing dumb ads for Dick Van Dyke Appliance World. Nothing against J, because I do like him, but Herron is better in analyst role than him.
I humbly disagree, I feel like Herron is the perfect example of the young enthusiastic guy who is too much into being young and enthusiastic and not enough into analyzing the actual game.
They're trying to be Tony Romo, but Tony Romo is excitable and fan-like in a very drilled-down into the game way. J isn't as good as Romo, but I think he takes a similar perspective.
And then you combine Herron with Lisa Byington who struggles a lot to keep up with presenting what's going on and you end up with a telecast only loosely associated with the football game that's going on. Those two had some real stinkers this year.
Football is hard now, and it gets tougher and tougher to broadcast as the rules and their enforcement gets more arcane. But the north star always has to be explaining what's going on and making the action as legible as quickly as possible.
I really do feel like the broadcast of a football game, college or pro, becomes a worse product every year. HD was a great leap forward, but now we're going backwards.