{"id":249050,"date":"2017-09-12T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=249050"},"modified":"2017-09-12T09:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:04:43","slug":"brian-stann-explains-left-ufc-commentary-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brian-stann\/brian-stann-explains-left-ufc-commentary-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Stann explains why he left his UFC commentary gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, the MMA community was hit by the surprising news that former fighter Brian Stann, arguably the best commentator and analyst employed by the UFC, would be leaving his post with the organization. This coming week, he&#8217;ll take up a new position as a Chief Operating Officer of a company he has described as a \u201clarge real estate firm.\u201d He&#8217;ll also be returning to school, as he pursues an executive Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/9\/11\/16290652\/brian-stann-explains-why-he-left-ufc-commentary-job-for-new-opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a>, the ever articulate Brian Stann gave an in-depth breakdown of the reasons for this move. See what he had to say below (h\/t\u00a0Shaun Al-Shatti of MMAFighting.com).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"jsOgm3\"><em>\u201cI spent the entire (past) weekend with my kids, and I\u2019ve been able to do that for several weekends in a row, which doesn\u2019t typically happen for me, and that\u2019s a big reason why this switch took place,\u201d Stann said. \u201cAs you know, I love calling fights, and I loved being a sports analyst. I loved my time in college football and I loved my time calling fights in the UFC, and for a long time I thought, \u2018hey, this is something I\u2019m going to do for the next 15 to 20 years.\u2019 The difficulty becomes, obviously, that you\u2019re always working the weekends. Just for a stateside fight in the country, I would leave on Thursday, I wouldn\u2019t come home until Sunday. If I was going out of the country, which I did a lot of international shows, I would leave on a Wednesday, I wouldn\u2019t get home until Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"QVmbCR\"><em>\u201cI did 26 shows last year alone, that\u2019s half the weekends. And even if I didn\u2019t work a regular job \u2014 which I do \u2014 even if I didn\u2019t work a regular job, that\u2019s a lot of time to be away from my family. And as my girls get older, I mean, I\u2019m missing soccer games, I can\u2019t coach any of my kids\u2019 teams. Eventually I\u2019m going to start missing semis, homecoming, proms, things of that nature if this is my chosen career path. And ultimately, in addition to the time away from family, there\u2019s just no guarantees in television, right? Things can change in the heat of the moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"0h8U5K\"><em>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what network the UFC is going to be on in a year-and-a-half. They don\u2019t know. They\u2019re going to go through those deals, and for guys like me, what happens? I\u2019ve got three kids, and as comfortable and secure as I feel in my abilities as an analyst, there\u2019s a lot that\u2019s up in air that\u2019s kind of left to chance there. And then, really the third reason, and this would occur to me a lot \u2014 as much as I loved calling fights and I thought about my future, I\u2019m not building anything, I\u2019m not leading anything, and I just, I didn\u2019t want that to be my career. When I look back at what I\u2019ve done with the best years of my professional life, I didn\u2019t want to just say, \u2018Man, I called some really great fights.\u2019 I wanted to do something a little bit more than that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Will you miss the commentary of Brian Stann?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer, the MMA community was hit by the surprising news that former fighter Brian Stann, arguably the best commentator and analyst employed by the UFC, would be leaving his post with the organization. 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