ESPN’s ill-conceived morning program, “Get Up!,” is being given a second chance this fall. The thought is to infuse the program with ESPN’s old, reliable football in hopes of hooking viewers. On Thursday, one of its main hosts, Michelle Beadle, said she won’t be watching college football or the NFL.

OK then.

Beadle’s reasoning, in light of the Urban Meyer decision and press conference, was passionate and well-reasoned; she called Meyer a “liar,” and said football has “marginalized women.”

“I’m just ready for NBA to kick off,” Beadle said.

Beadle’s stance is apparently not a new one, as she said she didn’t watch football last fall. That’s her right and could work in some roles, like as the lead host of NBA coverage.

Why ex-president John Skipper didn’t take this into consideration when putting Beadle on the show is another mystery of Skipper’s disappointing tenure.

If you are a panelist on a sports talk show that is pivoting fully to football — “Get Up!” announced its college and NFL analysts Wednesday — it is hard to see how you can be a regular part of the conversation. At a reported $5 million a year, Beadle maybe doesn’t care.

ESPN executives hope “Get Up!” can be saved and are standing behind it for now. They want to tighten the production and feature more insiders so the hosts, Mike Greenberg, Beadle and Jalen Rose, can stay away from areas where they lack expertise. It is sort of a SportsCenter-zation of the program. “Get Up!” replaced “SportsCenter” on ESPN in April.

People who work on the show believe the football season will bring higher ratings, giving the show a do-over of sorts.

So far, the definitive problem with the program is there is no reason to watch it. This circles back to Skipper, who green-lit the concept in the first place.

What is the concept, by the way? Is it “Good Morning America” for sports? “First Take” without the hot takes? You tell me.

Whatever it is, it hasn’t worked. On most days, “Get Up!” doesn’t even reach 300,000 viewers, which drags down the potential audience of the rest of ESPN’s day lineup.

The three-hour program, in theory, is supposed to be built on chemistry, but Greenberg did not know Beadle or Rose well when it began in April. The idea that Beadle and Greenberg wouldn’t mesh was easier to see than a 3-0 fastball.

Greenberg is making $6.5 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter, but besides their nice salaries, they are not very much alike. Greenberg is a perfectly nice, non-offensive sportscaster, while Beadle is a bit more rebellious and free-wheeling, as evidenced by her no-football stance. Watching them, it is unclear if either really wants to be sitting next to the other.

Meanwhile, Rose, making $3 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter, seems to talk into every break and over others, like they do on TNT’s “Inside The NBA.” Unlike when Charles Barkley and crew do it, it is too much. Rose has carved himself a nice career, even if his opinions aren’t must-listens.

The show has cut down on the byplay among the three and focused, SportsCenter-esque, on having each conduct one-on-one interviews with guests. Their coverage of the Meyer situation on Thursday was pretty good, as it was focused with Greenberg piloting most of it. The hosts need to prove their value.

This summer, there has been a recurring theme as the trio has taken vacations. Nearly every fill-in, from Ryen Russillo to Taylor Twellman to Maria Taylor to Mina Kimes, has been more enthusiastic and more compelling than the person he or she replaced. The show had a little more energy and was a bit more engaging.

This brings us to the fundamental flaw in how Skipper & company began “Get Up!” Besides making the three-hour show an hour too long, what they should’ve done from the start is tried it out on ESPN2 — out of the main spotlight and for less money.

Maybe a crew of Twellman, Taylor and Kimes could have been on the Deuce for a year to find out how to make the program work. Instead of telling an audience to come watch it, viewers could have found it. It would have been cheaper and likely better.

Then, after the show got going, they could have switched it to ESPN and pushed “SportsCenter” to ESPN2. This should have come up in one of the brainstorming meetings.

Now, Greenberg, Beadle and Rose are getting another shot to make it work before the program could be ripped to shreds. It is football season — a new start for the show, but with a new problem.