WWL Shaking Up College Football Announcing Teams

Gottfried's health issues.

 

"Also, ESPN analyst Mike Gottfried will work ESPNU primetime telecasts with Dave Armstrong."
That's perhaps the saddest line in the whole story.... Gottfried and Franklin were a great team, but Mike's health issues have clearly taken something out of him. Too bad ESPN hasn't shown him more respect.

 

McDonough/Spielman on Friday may be done to get people to actually watch those wretched Friday night games (Big East third tier, C-USA, WAC, MAC, etc.).

 

They are wretched, but since they are the only game on Friday nights they end up pulling viewers.

Didn't Bob Wischusen do the Friday night games last year?

 

They just can't resist ol Musberger can they?

Remember that old ESPN football crew of Jim Simpson and Kevin Kiley? Maybe, oh, 20-25 years ago? Those were good days. ESPN put on just about any damn team back then.

 

Not as bad a choice as Ray Scott

 

I guess this means College Gameday will always be where the Saturday night national game is for Herbstreit's sake. That means no South Bend for USC-Notre Dame, right?

 

I'm in agreement. I watch a lot of Big Ten football, and I thought last year, Spielman (once you can get past the forced urgency of his delivery) was the best color guy out there for a Big Ten game, from Purdue-Minnesota to Ohio State-Michigan. And I've always liked McDonough, whether he was CBS's top national baseball guy, or the ESPN college noon guy.

 

Not necessarily. I seem to remember at least once (maybe when Gameday was at Auburn-Florida) that Herbstreit had to leave right after the show to catch a plane for the Michigan-Penn State game that night in Pennsylvania.

 

Yeah, he did that once or twice. But tough to do on a regular basis, I'd imagine. So, more or less, Gameday = ABC game of the week. Which is kind of too bad for the SEC and their CBS deal.

 

You can deny it all you want, but Brent gives it a big-game presence and feel.