I’m not even going to pretend that I am anything but happy about this.

ESPN fired Trev Alberts on Sunday after the college football analyst failed to show up for work at ESPN’s studios in Bristol, Conn.

“He phoned and said that he wasn’t going to show up,” Mark Shapiro, ESPN’s Vice President of Programming and Production, told SI.com on Tuesday night, “and when he didn’t, he was in breach of his contract and we terminated him.”

Alberts, a former All-American defensive end at Nebraska and member of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, was embarking on his fourth season as part of ESPN’s popular College Football Scoreboard and College Football Gameday team. But on Sunday morning, in the midst of college football’s first big weekend of the season, Alberts phoned ESPN’s coordinating producer of college football, Ed Placey, and voiced his discontent.

Now we know why it was just Rece Davis and Mark May in the studio.

I wish I could locate the blogger and post I read the other day who commented that May is actually better without Alberts around because he doesn’t have defend his every utterance every 4 seconds.

In the next couple of weeks, they will have someone else from within ESPN’s ranks fill in for the year. After that they plan to open it up again. Oh, goody. Now we know what the next “Dream Job” will be.