WWL Shaking Up College Football Announcing Teams

Basically keeping the same crews together, just moving them around on times and networks it appears.


http://tvweek.com/news/2007/06/abc_espn_shake_up_college_foot.php

 

Biggest change is the Saturday Night Football crew with Herbstreit taking over as the only analyst. That moves former ND coach Bob Davie to ESPN2 games after one season in prime-time as part of a 3-man booth. ABC national telecasts (D-IA) to ESPN2 (D-II) telecasts. Ouch.

 

Nice to see Ron Franklin out of the doghouse and in primetime on ABC

 

Are you sure the espn2 saturday night games are D-II? I don't think so.

Glad to see Larry Coker landed somewhere.

 

ESPN doesn't show D-II or D-III games. [blue]Heaven forbid ESPN gets in the way of these bigwig assholes getting a big time payday[/blue]

 

Uh, from network TV to cable TV is a bit of a drop, me thinks. And The Deuce is second string to ESPN, is it not?
Didn't mean to say ESPN covers D-II game. I believe it was an analogy.

 

I don't know if I'm in the minority or not, but I actually liked the McDonough/Spielman crew that did the noon game on ESPN. Why would you put them on what figures to be a less-watched telecast than the one they were already on?

 

Franklin was the man for the SEC Saturday night specials, ( a poor man's Keith Jackson) Mike Patrick just doesn't do it for me, he's too corporate-sounding. And I thought Bob Davie was a great analyst, I don't understand the move.
McDonough tends to sound condescending in his play-by-play. I'm not looking for Joe Homer, but he rarely seems like he is excited about being at the game.
Anybody have any inside dope on all the moving around of announcing crews that ABC/ESPN has done? I see people being elevated and others moved down (MNF as well), is it just the big boss making changes because he can? I've always felt crews that have worked together longer are better than crews that are new.

 

Who gets the privlege of working with Holly Rowe?

 

I would much rather listen to Herbstreit than Davie. Good move on their part. Sounds like the GameDay crew will remain the same. That's the best news.

 

Ah, for the days of actually watching GameDay ...