Fox out of BCS bidding war

According to the AP article on ESPN.com ...

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3709030

 

The Fox announcers stink on the BCS games. I don't even know who half of those guys are.

Other than that, I couldn't care less.

 

If the election hadn't happened, this would be the best news I've heard in months.

Thom Brennaman calling Georgia "Florida" during last year's Sugar Bowl is all you need to know about the quality of product.

 

I agree. This is good news for college football. The Fox coverage always comes off as an obligation, as slumming, as "Oh, yeah, we've got a contract, so we'd better do something on this and then get right back to our pro sports."

And it's always bad.

 

Like ESPN is going to be any better?
We'll probably get shithead Berman on every freaking game...with Stuey hosting the studio show

 

My guess is those guys will still be wrapped up in the NFL at that time. My fear is that the lead studio show will consist of Dr. Lou and Mark May. Ugh. I'd imagine the GameDay crew will log some serious miles that week, though.

But the announcers will be an obvious upgrade.

 

Maybe by then Holtz will stoop to using 9/11 references in his broadcasts.

Oh wait, Nick Satan already beat him to it.

 

Yeah, it probably will. They may be starfucky as all get out, but they at least put some effort into the production. FOX thought the BCS was a tool to advertise Jumper, nothing more.

 

Ron Franklin has been the voice of nationally televised college football for me since I started watching well before there was a Thursday night game. He should be allowed to call a BCS champsionship game. Problem is we'll probably get Drunkberger.

 

Amen to that. What has happened to Ron Franklin is amazing. Four or five years ago, he was - second to Keith Jackson (albeit, Jackson was slipping) - the voice of college football.

 

One of the bizarre aspects of college football is how networks that show virtually no games in the fall (i.e., Fox nowadays, NBC in the '80s) end up showing the biggest games in January. I realize those guys must have written the biggest checks, but is it really worth it when you're putting a subpar broadcast on the air?

(OK, the answer is yes. But it still bugs me.)

 

All because he said what everyone else in America was thinking...