Friends of Idiots- Raft and VerneThe guys over at Awful Announcing posted CBS's broadcast teams for this year's edition of the greatest sporting event in the world. For those of you too lazy to click on the link, here are the CBS pairings along with a little Idiot analysis.
Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg: We are so ecstatic that Billy Packer is done with CBS that we can even tolerate Jim Nantz for another year. Clark always gives love to Syracuse, so that scores points in our book.
Dick Enberg/Carter Blackburn/Jay Bilas: Jay has established himself as one of the best commentators in the game today. You get absolutely no Vitale-like ACC spin from this Duke grad. I've caught a little bit of Carter doing games on CBS College Sports this year. I didn't know much about him, but a google search reveals he's a Cuse grad. That alone makes Dick Enberg say "Oh my."
Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery: I'll watch any game these two guys do. Verne has lost a bit off his fastball as of late, but he's still a class act. And Raft....tell me you wouldn't have a blast going out for beers with this guy?
Gus Johnson/Len Elmore: Gus Johnson can make the WNBA exciting. Ok, let me try that again. Gus Johnson could make Syracuse football exciting. That's better. Len, keep hitting the snooze button.
Kevin Harlan/Dan Bonner: Kevin Harlan's best work was in those "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" monster truck commercials. Bonner is a solid color guy.
Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel: Why do I always picture NY Jets games when I hear Ian Eagle's voice?
Craig Bolerjack/Bob Wenzel: Bob Wenzel is just as good of an announcer as he was a head coach.
Tim Brando/Mike Gminski: Yikes. G-Man at least bring back your old killer beard.
4 comments:
Pretty solid breakdown...
I think Kevin Harlan is maybe their best straight play-by-play guy. Bilas should have been considered to be the "A" team color guy. Just not "exciting" enough for the common fan but he's the best (along with Raf).
I'm actually anti Gus Johnson... big time... He's the TO of announcers... Look at ME-ME-ME. And the closer the game, the more he just yells. He's the anti-Vin Scully.
I've turned the corner on Wenzel. He's risen from the BE regional games to doing a bunch of national games this year and for good reason: He's "Raftery Lite."
You don't get full-on Raf, but a solid residual by-product. And that's pretty good in my book.
As long as Fudge Packer is gone, I am cool with the rest of the lineup. I agree with Nick, Kevin Harlan is a great play-by-play guy.
Danny
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Ian Eagle AND Jim Spanarkel? SportsChannel lives on!
(Not to mention Raftery... where's Spencer Ross?!)
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