'I couldn't be too black:' Former LSU safety Ryan Clark talks about being let go by ESPNBATON ROUGE - Former LSU football safety Ryan Clark spoke on his podcast, The Pivot, about being let go by ESPN this past week. Clark said he was not laid off alongside other ESPN personalities, saying he was fired. When asked if he'd change anything about his time at ESPN, Clark said, "It depends on when you ask me." “When I go home and this kid, you know, from the West Bank is like so accepted in New Orleans now, like I wouldn’t change that. So yeah, I wouldn’t change that.”