The Best College Football Announcers

by Scipio Tex on Jul 30, 2009 4:31 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

Our resident quipster HenryJames once remarked that the internet is only good for porn and telling people that they suck. People like bad sports announcers. Who are being produced by the sports media machine as rapidly as the Fed prints pesos. And, they..umm, suck!

Well, not today. Not all of them. I'm putting away my internet snark to tell you my favorite college football announcers. These are the guys who bring value to my game watching experience every time I see them.

Reece Davis

The Bama grad is smart, smooth without being unctious, frequently challenges dumb, lazy opinion, and operates a studio show surrounded by lisping dolt Lou Holtz and the smug Mark May like they're puppets dancing on the end of his string. His set ups, his transitions, his ability to deliver the emotion of college football without hyperbole, is just top notch. The guy brings the goods every week and does so with real passion for the game balanced by a hint of a smirk, just a small tilt of his head, that suggests yeah, I'm in on the joke too.

Chris Fowler

Ah, Chris is a long away from his days at Scholastic Sports America. Fowler's game is not dissimilar from Davis. He's unflappable, has a solid voice, and provides a steely spine of narrative to studio shows and a solid presence behind the mike at games. Just a solid pro. His wife is OK too.

Petros Papadakis

Yes, really. Petros is loud, has a grating voice, and sweats, grunts, and gesticulates in the booth like an Athenian grocer who just found out that his daughter is dating an Albanian. A lot of people hate him. I love his self-deprecating sense of humor, his lack of pretense, his knowledge of the game, and, when focused, his capacity for real insight.

Example:

Papadakis, a former USC Trojan team captain, remarks casually at the height of the 2005 ESPN USC Reggie Bush blowjob fest that UCLA's Maurice Jones-Drew is a better player than Reggie Bush and will be a much better NFL RB. Heresy. And transport yourself back to that time - this is madness, this is balls, this...is...SANTA MONICA!

Petros then offers a lucid ten minute explanation for why and it proves to be dead on sitting here in 2009. The sheer balls of that analysis stunned me and I've always liked him since. He has also called Matt Leinart's NFL career to date with amazing prescience.

I also like his unpredictability. I doubt I'll communicate this perfectly accurately, but I'm watching some Pac 10 late night game and Petros is talking about how good looking some kid is, his boyish good looks, but then instructs the viewer to look at the player's legs and ass, he's a developed man. He's carrying on and on about it in a joking way. His booth partner finally gently jabs him about it and Petros pauses, looks pleadingly at the camera, spreads out his hands like he's calling forth to his ancestors and remarks, "Well, I am Greek."

Craig Way

Homer pick. I don't think so. As annoying as Craig can be in an afternoon drive format - dropping the names and classification of one obscure 2A Texas high school after another until blood flows from your ears and toenails - he's also an absolutely outstanding radio play-by-play announcer. He knows the game, has a great cadence for calling the action, and sets up his booth partners generously and frequently. Listen to the homer announcers that dominate the rest of college football radio - yes, even putting aside the amusement factor of a Dave South - they sound so incredibly bush league after you've experienced Way.

Chris Spielman

Announces like he played. No wasted motion and he nails whatever he decides to tackle. He's not in the same class as these other guys as a pure voice or talent, but he's like two chord punk rock after five years of disco - he shuts his mouth and lets the game take on its own personality. Sadly, his nervous dollar-for-each-word partners generally feel the need to fill the dead air.

I'm watching a Big 10 snoozer and Spielman opines right before a field goal that it's probably a fake though nothing in the game situation suggests that it would be. It is. After the fake, he gets on the telestrator and points out that the kicker lingered too close to his head coach before the kick and they spent way too much time chatting. He then talks about situational awareness - being able to pick your head up as a defender and notice the world outside of your assignment and play your hunches. Solid stuff.

Ron Franklin

Forward this to the 1:00 minute mark, sit back, and watch how it's done. With extra Dr Jerry Punch!

Sadly, Ron has been buried by ESPN for some time now and it's no wonder that he's retiring soon.

For this:

With Notre Dame blowing out Purdue, Holly Rowe praised the defensive coordinator of Purdue for using the team's timeouts towards the end of a blowout loss. Holly Rowe added to her praise this comment: "If the coaches are giving up, what does that say to the players?"

Mr. Franklin responded with, "Holly, it's not giving up. It's 49-21, sweetheart."

Give him a medal. Upbraiding the witless Holly Rowe is praiseworthy.

Didn't Make It

I have a bit of a soft spot for Brent Musberger for his positive Longhorn mojo, but his Great Man Theory of broadcasting in which one player is made responsible for all events on the field is wearisome for me. What if...I can't even ponder it...what if he broadcasts a Florida game? Tebow. Musberger. It's like crossing Ghostbuster streams. This must be stopped.

I have no problem with Kirk Herbstreit and think he does a very solid job, but his vacillations have increased with his public profile. Don't talk in circles around a proposition and then turn it back over to Fowler having said nothing.

Now I ask you to do the same.

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Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson uniting to call a Florida game is actually the first sign of the apocalypse.

by kevwun on Jul 30, 2009 4:47 PM CDT reply actions

Brad Nessler is good.

by Nordberg on Jul 30, 2009 4:54 PM CDT reply actions

“gesticulates in the booth like an Athenian grocer who just found out that his daughter is dating an Albanian”

Parakalo, at least the boy isn’t a Vlakh.

by Spider on Jul 30, 2009 5:01 PM CDT reply actions

Musberger gets a bad rap.

Maybe I have a soft spot for him because I screamed “Wide open, man!” at exactly the same moment he screamed “Wide open, baby!”

by Woody Bombay on Jul 30, 2009 5:04 PM CDT reply actions

Webster’s dad must be a West Coast thing. I’ve never seen him do a broadcast.

by HenryJames on Jul 30, 2009 5:12 PM CDT reply actions

Fowler is good no matter what sport he’s calling—which is not a universal talent.

by Parlin Hall on Jul 30, 2009 5:13 PM CDT reply actions

Ron Franklin all the way for me, partly because I can remember listening to him call Longhorn games on the radio.

by Amos Moses on Jul 30, 2009 5:15 PM CDT reply actions

Franklin is a shell of his former self. He’s slipped badly the last couple of years.

by HenryJames on Jul 30, 2009 5:17 PM CDT reply actions

Dave Barnett — authoritative, to the point, and he gives his color announcer plenty of room to do their job. He gets excited, without going overboard, and he keeps the basics (score, time, place on the field) up front.

Craig Way is a wonderful human being, does a good job — and worksfor a school with a long list of great announcers in the recent past. For me he suffers in comparison to his predecessors, Ron Franklin, Brad Sham and Bill Schoening.

by srr50 on Jul 30, 2009 5:19 PM CDT reply actions

Nordberg:

I can’t really conjure a feeling good or bad about Nessler.

HJ:

Yes, he does Pac 10 games on Fox Sports West. I thought some of you may have seen him.

Parlin:

I agree. A trait he shares with Al Michaels and Dick Enberg.

by Scipio Tex on Jul 30, 2009 5:20 PM CDT reply actions

srr50:

I wouldn’t disagree on that assessment of Way, however I was trying to keep the list current. We’ve been blessed with extraordinary announcers.

Is Schoening still the voice of the Spurs?

by Scipio Tex on Jul 30, 2009 5:22 PM CDT reply actions

Good list. I really enjoyed listening to the Franklin/Gottfried team doing the Saturday night SEC games.

by shockthenation on Jul 30, 2009 5:23 PM CDT reply actions

Is Schoening still the voice of the Spurs?

Yes he is, and it is one helluva gig. Travel with the team on their charter, stay in 4-star NBA hotels, and work for (IMO)the best-run NBA franchise around.

by srr50 on Jul 30, 2009 5:24 PM CDT reply actions

“Yes he is, and it is one helluva gig. Travel with the team on their charter, stay in 4-star NBA hotels, and work for (IMO)the best-run NBA franchise around.”

I guess that is why Chuck Cooperstein took that same gig with the Mavs but I really miss those guys calling college football games on the radio.

by shockthenation on Jul 30, 2009 5:27 PM CDT reply actions

My son’s name is spelled R-E-E-S-E.
Thx.

by Mr. Davis's Mom on Jul 30, 2009 5:33 PM CDT reply actions

I have always liked Dan Fouts. I usually learn something about offensive schemes when he’s yammering.

by MIA on Jul 30, 2009 5:36 PM CDT reply actions

Papadakis is a homer. I am entertained by him at times, but he dangles from USC’s nuts more often than an LA whore on nickel night.

I like Nessler a lot. He’s a reasonably fair guy calling the games and he keeps a comfortable pace.

The Barnett selection by srr50 is solid.

Frankly, with College Football weekends, I am really easy to please. I like virtually everyone I listen to, with a few clear exceptions. There are also some guys I like that I know without a doubt many others revile, and probably rightfully so.

Dave Lapham is a guy that a lot of people really hate. Understandably. He sounds like a big goofy jock and he’s often miscalling players, going so far as to attribute tackles to a Longhorn player with the number of the guy making the tackle, even if it was the other team’s player with the matching number making the tackle on a Longhorn player. Etc. Still, I find him highly entertaining. He’s on 4th tier games, and if you’re watching the game, you should know what to expect. I often laugh at the shit that comes out of his mouth.

Mike Patrick. I like that guy, overreactions to plays and all.

The only people I really don’t like, in order, are as follows:

1) Gary Danielsen – His ability to overhype makes religious fanatics jealous. The ongoing jackoff session with him as the giver on Tebow specifically and the SEC in general is nauseating to the point of being unlistenable. And his nose is bizarre looking.

2) The monster that ate Verne Lundquist. I used to like Verne, even though he was a Cowboy enthusiast. Listening to the entity that ate him whole and stole his voice call games next to Danielsen is a painful, numbing experience.

3) Pam Ward – This guy’s voice grates on me. He talks like a nerdy junior science teacher, or John Candy’s character in “Vacation”, and he often attempts to sound more informed than he really is. As the play-by-play man in the booth typically with Spielman, I find that he does nothing but bring the 5th tier Big 10 game I’m trying to watch down to below average levels, even if I like Spielman fine.

4) Rod Gilmore – F this guy for sounding too much like Chris Spielman, voicewise, and forcing me to listen in on his commentary for a few minutes in order to realize that it’s not the right guy and the game should be on mute.

5) Matt Millen – He’s Dave Lapham except he takes himself seriously. He’s a dumb jock that has gotten farther along than he should have by speaking with authority and quoting technical football plays/line calls. Probably the stupidest motherfucker in sports. I hate him more than clowns.

I do enjoy Saturdays in the fall. The worst games to listen to are still better than anything else I could be doing. Or almost anything. Or anything that lasts longer than 5 minutes.

by CloseToJumping on Jul 30, 2009 6:10 PM CDT reply actions

I like Gary Thorne. He doesn’t do a ton of football, but the guy is mostly allergic to hyperbole and calls a smooth game, which is what I ask for in a play by play guy. One of the benefits of living in DC is Thorne calls the Orioles on MASN.

Craig Ways call on 4th and 5 makes me tear up. Every. Single. Time. Some awesome dude on Youtube actually put together the Keith Jackson call and then the Craig Way call back to back. The difference is, well…

Here, just watch, and tell me you didn’t just wipe your eye and blame it on ragweed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8zZRBTOcnY

by BatesHorn on Jul 30, 2009 6:21 PM CDT reply actions

Good selections, Scip.

For play-by-play…
I don’t think anyone is better than Fowler. He delivers a sound broadcast, letting the game tell/dictate the story, rather than trying to manufacture a story. I think he’s comparable to Michaels on NFL games. (I know, Michaels is one of the greatest of all time. Don’t flame.)

Musberger needs to be let out to pasture. As you pointed out, his “this is the greatest game with the greatest players” approach to every game he calls is tough to stomach. He’s the polar opposite of Fowler.

Nessler is a Musberger clone. He’s to Musberger what every subsequent Fox NFL color commentator was to Madden.

For color…
I agree with your assessment of Herbstreit — he’s one of my favorite analysts, but in the booth he tries too hard.

I’m not a Fouts fan, but to his credit he, like Franklin, isn’t afraid to contradict his broadcast partners (see 2006 Rose Bowl).

From what I recall — haven’t listen to him in a while — I don’t mind Griese on color. I remember him being (trying to be) insightful.

Best ever…
I’ll echo shockthenation with Franklin/Gottfried on Sat night SEC games, before “something” happened to Gottfried and Franklin got buried. I always hoped they would move Franklin to the Sat night ABC game, but it doesn’t appear that is ever going to happen.

by Slugfest on Jul 30, 2009 6:34 PM CDT reply actions

You lost me with Franklin and Musburger. Franklin has a tendency to get lost, but never fails to drop subtle homer hints. Musburger is a flippin cartoon character, pardner.

Way may be a homer pick like you say, but I agree: he’s a solid play-by-play guy. His encylopedic high school football knowledge will put you in a coma, though.

by ponderos on Jul 30, 2009 6:53 PM CDT reply actions

Joel Meyers has a smoooooooth voice, but the smelly saquatch known as Dave Lapham often leads to pressing of the mute. Which is like, you know, a shame.

by SizzleChest on Jul 30, 2009 6:53 PM CDT reply actions

Dave Lapham gets a lifetime pass from me for giving us the face rape.

by kevwun on Jul 30, 2009 7:02 PM CDT reply actions

Lapham and Pam Ward are the best…

by Barry Switzer on Jul 30, 2009 8:08 PM CDT reply actions

Musgburger is an asspilot

Ron Franklin put chills in my spine jones for the start of football!

by Domedriver on Jul 30, 2009 8:13 PM CDT reply actions

Fowler and Davis are so talented—IMO they get even less credit than they deserve. They will go down as legends, especially as it seems Reese is stepping out of Fowler’s shadow as of late. I truly believe his career has been slowed due to having to carry Mark May and especially the buffoon Lou Holtz on College Gamenight and the studio kickback on Gameday. He will be a bonafide star in the business soon.

by GoHornsGo90 on Jul 30, 2009 9:06 PM CDT reply actions

What no one mentioned me? I rock!!!

by Dave Lapham on Jul 30, 2009 9:39 PM CDT reply actions

I’m old school, but I still like Musburger. Mostly because he clearly LOVES the game and that gets him a lot with me. That old schoolness should make me like Franklin, but I do think he’s not as good as he was five years ago. Even his holiness, Keith Jackson, slipped toward the end.

Disagree with CTJ on Verne.

by NorthDallasSooner on Jul 30, 2009 10:17 PM CDT reply actions

I remember watching a game in 2005 when Reggie Bush made a good cut- not an “Oh my God was that Barry Sanders?” type cut, just a good solid cut upfield that I’d seen Hodges Mitchell make a dozen times.

Papadakis spent the next 10 minutes discussing how there were perhaps 5 backs in the history of college football that could have made that cut upfield. I just have a hard time taking him seriously since then.

by Stuck in MN on Jul 30, 2009 10:46 PM CDT reply actions

“Dave Lapham gets a lifetime pass from me for giving us the face rape”

That was a nice little Saturday at my house..

by Bogs Diamond on Jul 30, 2009 11:06 PM CDT reply actions

Andre Ware is actually pretty good.

by Steve Nebraska on Jul 31, 2009 12:15 AM CDT reply actions

The ones I hate: All the ones on FOX that do BCS games. All of them. I don’t even know their names. Doesn’t matter. They’re all fucking terrible.

by Nordberg on Jul 31, 2009 8:43 AM CDT reply actions

Good Old Fightin’ Texas Aggies still compliment me on this call – “Aggies break the huddle, reciever spread out wide, couple of guys over there. McGee to pass…scrambles…pass! Complete! COMPLETE! IT’S A FIRST DOWN! 4 YARD GAIN! FIRST DOWN AGGIES!”

by Dave South on Jul 31, 2009 9:31 AM CDT reply actions

Stuck in MN—

I believe that was the late evening game against Fresno State where he was running down the sideline. They made that play out to be something only aliens and Reggie Bush could pull off. If that wasn’t what you were thinking, that one was similar.

I like Ware as well.

by CloseToJumping on Jul 31, 2009 9:35 AM CDT reply actions

Craig Way is the best radio guy I’ve heard, no homerism here.

The way he so breathlessly makes it seem like he’s running out of breath on every big play is breathtaking.

by Laz on Jul 31, 2009 9:48 AM CDT reply actions

yep, it was the Fresno State game. The game where 120 yards on 6 kick returns and a little fellatio from Papadakis won Bush the Heisman.

by Stuck in MN on Jul 31, 2009 9:59 AM CDT reply actions

Well, he did have like 500 AP yards that game. Listen, I am with you. He had a critical fumble in the early 4th quarter that almost cost USC the game. Most of his yardage came on returns, and he didn’t look great on them, but had volume because it was a shootout. None of the writers east of the Rockies saw that game, it appeared. They read about it the next day and saw highlights, and suddenly Bush was back to frontrunning. It still angers me.

by CloseToJumping on Jul 31, 2009 10:03 AM CDT reply actions

Bateshorn -

“Craig Ways call on 4th and 5 makes me tear up. Every. Single. Time. Some awesome dude on Youtube actually put together the Keith Jackson call and then the Craig Way call back to back. The difference is, well… "

The difference is that Jackson was calling for a national TV audience, while Way was calling for his constituency. I actually love both the calls, especially that way that Jackson doesn’t say much after the TD (and Fouts says nothing). They let the moment exist without commentary, which was both powerful and hard to do for guys paid to talk.

Not saying that Way’s call isn’t moving (it is), but to suggest that one is better than the other misses the mark, in my opinion.

by BEHorn on Jul 31, 2009 10:06 AM CDT reply actions

The list of the ones who suck is much easier and always more lengthy. I’m looking at you Artie Gigantino and I’m trying to look at you Thom Brennamen, but I can’t see your face when you are deep throating Tim Tebow.

Love Petros. He’s way over the top and a USC homer, but that dude loves college football in a big way and it comes through. He’s also funny as hell.

According to one of my buddies who did some consulting work for ESPN, Reese Davis is an awesome dude off camera. Just a great guy.

by Mitch Cumsteen on Jul 31, 2009 10:11 AM CDT reply actions

It’s a short list and Reese Davis and Chris Fowler are at the top for me. Herbstreit’s popularity has gradually diluted his value as a broadcaster.

Franklin is retiring about ten years too late a la Keith Jackson.

CTJ has a good point though. By the time September rolls around, I could listen to Gilbert Godfried commentate just as long as college football is on my television.

Just mute the TV and synch it with Way’s broadcast.

by Vasherized on Jul 31, 2009 10:20 AM CDT reply actions

“Vince Young (yawn)scores. Or something. Sigh.”

(silence)

by Keith Jackson on Jul 31, 2009 10:21 AM CDT reply actions

Fouts: Veni, vidi, vici.

Jackson: Ah yes, how sweet the wine.

Fouts: awkward silence

by Stuck in MN on Jul 31, 2009 10:32 AM CDT reply actions

Don’t miss the season’s premiere of ’Emily’s Reasons Why Not.’’Emily’s Reasons’ … I don’t know.

by Keith Jackson on Jul 31, 2009 10:48 AM CDT reply actions

Keith Jackson was asked in an interview on Jim Rome’s radio show about announcing the 2006 Rose Bowl. Rome lead into the question asking Keith about calling probably the greatest college football game ever, and Keith said something like “I wish it would have been played better, officiated better, and called better.” Huh?

by Cocinero on Jul 31, 2009 11:03 AM CDT reply actions

“By the time September rolls around, I could listen to Gilbert Godfried commentate just as long as college football is on my television.”

Agreed: Let the season begin already. This whole “waiting for gratification” thing bites.

by Parlin Hall on Jul 31, 2009 11:21 AM CDT reply actions

bateshorn, my boss thanks you for wasting two hours of his time after watching your video then 20 others subsequently, ps keith jackson was so miserable in the championship game it made my deaf dad wince

by eloy on Jul 31, 2009 11:35 AM CDT reply actions

I have to second the Andre Ware offering.

by Bulwark on Jul 31, 2009 11:41 AM CDT reply actions

who is the young black dude i see sometimes on the fox sports network, mark or charles or something. i don’t think he’s been mentioned. he doesn’t drive me crazy.

by Doperbo on Jul 31, 2009 11:56 AM CDT reply actions

who is the young black dude i see sometimes on the fox sports network, mark or charles or something. i don’t think he’s been mentioned. he doesn’t drive me crazy.

Charles Davis — played at Tennessee.

by srr50 on Jul 31, 2009 12:22 PM CDT reply actions

Damn, good one. I do like Charles Davis. He’s a sharp guy with some opinions and he’ll explain the game with some depth.

by Scipio Tex on Jul 31, 2009 1:15 PM CDT reply actions

Davis hangs out full(er) time on the Big Ten network, so I’m sure every time he gets to call a team that can run faster than me he gets excited.

by NorthDallasSooner on Jul 31, 2009 1:54 PM CDT reply actions

Charles Davis is the Harold Reynolds of college football. I really miss TBS’s Saturday night games.

by CzarCW on Jul 31, 2009 2:02 PM CDT reply actions

It is a shame that Ron Franklin was relegated to the second-tier based on that silly comment, but he has slipped. Does Mike Gottfried call anything anymore? This goes way back, but he was absolutely prescient during the 1990 Texas-OU broadcast.

I am not with you on Petros. I like it when a broadaster doesn’t make every play out to be OT in the Super Bowl (unlike say, every NFL broadcaster), but Petros sounds as if he’s just screwing around most of the time.

Rod Gilmore is horrific. It pains me to see FOX’s sometimes studio lineup of former crooks Pat Jones and Jackie Sherrill. That said, I would much rather watch a FOX college football broadcast, because it comes without the bottom-of-the-screen-parade-of-useless-repetitive information ticker and breathless mid-game break-ins that constitute the bulk of a Disney broadcast.

Nessler is pretty solid.

by JUICE on Jul 31, 2009 2:53 PM CDT reply actions

I miss the TBS sat. games as well. Oh well.

by Jayne on Jul 31, 2009 3:09 PM CDT reply actions

There aren’t many people on this planet that I hate more than Petros. His voice makes my butt bleed.

by Nik on Jul 31, 2009 4:19 PM CDT reply actions

The best:

Play by Play
-Nessler
-Fowler
-Franklin (hell of a nice guy, too)

Color
-Spielman
-Herbsreit
-Jaws

The Worst:

Play by Play
-Musberger (and its not even close)
-Pam Ward (seriously?)
-Keith Jackson (retire)

Color
-Paul McGuire
-Joe Theisman
-Gilmore

The Underrated

-Troy Aikman
-Todd Blackledge
-Andre Ware

by Crazy Joe Clark on Aug 1, 2009 1:09 AM CDT reply actions

Forget dont about me!

by Dave South on Aug 1, 2009 1:11 AM CDT reply actions

It’s just not Saturday night to me without Ron Franklin’s voice coming from the television. I agree that it’s bad that he’s getting escorted off the premises by ESPN.

by johnnymac on Aug 1, 2009 6:06 AM CDT reply actions

Fowler, Davis and Nessler are the best play-by-play guys, IMO. Ron Franklin was the very best for a very long time, but I hate to agree with HJ that he has slipped in the last few years. I still love listening to him call a game, though.

I also love listening to Craig Way. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the fact that he’s calling the Longhorns, but so what. He does a tremendous job of making you feel like you’re at the game even though you’re just hearing it on the radio.

I also have to admit that Lapham has actually improved in the last few years, or maybe the big lug has just grown on me. He can still be annoying as shit during games for which he obviously has not prepared more than one or two talking points (remember his undying, singuular focus on the “huge splits” in Tech’s offensive line a few years back?), but there are weeks in which he is actually well-prepared and pretty insightful.

by EyesOfTX on Aug 2, 2009 12:19 PM CDT reply actions

Fowler is getting smarmier by the year, but having met his wife in person . . . I’ll give him a pass.

by bizzle on Aug 3, 2009 5:21 PM CDT reply actions

I also have to admit that Lapham has actually improved in the last few years, or maybe the big lug has just grown on me.

As the old saying goes, the weather is like facerape…

by BrickHorn on Aug 3, 2009 5:29 PM CDT reply actions

I love Craig Way, though I agree that Schoening, Sham, and Franklin were all better. For some reason, his incredibly detailed description of the uniforms at the beginning of a game is impressive to me. Especially when it is a Tuesday afternoon baseball game and he has 17 seconds before the first pitch to describe Laredo Junior College’s 64-color graphic soccer jerseys with Ama’s Horse Taco’s, Casino del Papagallo, and The Donkey Show sponsorships.

I don’t know the name of the guy that does color on Texas PPV games, but he is fucked in half drunk when he does it. It is hilarious. He also says non-pc things about minorities and women which should be very offensive, but come off as funny because he is like your drunk uncle that everyone loves even though he pissed on the turkey last Thanksgiving.

Musberger’s faux folksyism is more nauseating than his ‘great players’ mantra.

I haven’t seen Chris Collinsworth’s name here, but this has mainly been about college guys, but he is extremely good at everything he does.

Jim Nantz should be doing college games.

I have come full circle on Dave Lapham. He is fantastic.

Joel Meyers could be used as veterinary grade soporific. That was a compliment.

by The General on Aug 4, 2009 6:25 PM CDT reply actions

I think you are selling Herbstreit short. He knows his stuff, and you can tell he is biting his tongue when having to coexist with Spittle Holtz and others on ESPainfull.

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