College GameDay changes.

[D-3 Fan]

Re: College GameDay changes... Andrews is in, Fowler is out.

...and you still watch it, spnited? [/ducksaschairisthrown]

 

[murphyc]

Re: College GameDay changes... Andrews is in, Fowler is out.

My favorite part of the show is when the camera picks up the Coug flag flying. ;D

 

[Quakes]

Re: College GameDay changes... Andrews is in, Fowler is out.

Three hours of pre-game puke.
I don't get the fasciniation with pre-game shows like this ...a bunch of pompous asses filling the screen wth hot air.

This is far and away the best thing ESPN does. Glad to see nothing will change much from the only hours I'd tune in anyway.

I think the quality of the show lies somewhere in between those extremes. GameDay used to be excellent when it was just Fowler, Corso and Herbstreit. Then it was almost as if the people running the show started reading their own press clippings. The show has become bloated. (Three hours now? Really?) They started going on the road every week, making what was initially a special and exciting thing seem routine and cliched. (Here's another shot of college kids whooping it up and mugging for the camera!) They expanded the roster to include the folks back in Bristol (Rece Davis, Lou Holtz, Mark May) and added people who brought very little to the on-site crew (Desmond Howard, Erin Andrews). The commercials they ran last season bugged me, because they made the GameDay gang seem like personalities who were bigger than the games themselves. (Look at how cool Herbstreit is! He hangs out with Pete Carroll!) Somewhere beneath all of that, a decent show still lives -- and I must admit I still like Corso's headgear bit -- but it's not nearly as good as it was. I wish they'd simplify and go back to the way it used to be, but this is ESPN we're talking about.

 

[Boom_70]

Re: College GameDay changes... Andrews is in, Fowler is out.

Three hours of pre-game puke.
I don't get the fasciniation with pre-game shows like this ...a bunch of pompous asses filling the screen wth hot air.

This is far and away the best thing ESPN does. Glad to see nothing will change much from the only hours I'd tune in anyway.

I think the quality of the show lies somewhere in between those extremes. GameDay used to be excellent when it was just Fowler, Corso and Herbstreit. Then it was almost as if the people running the show started reading their own press clippings. The show has become bloated. (Three hours now? Really?) They started going on the road every week, making what was initially a special and exciting thing seem routine and cliched. (Here's another shot of college kids whooping it up and mugging for the camera!) They expanded the roster to include the folks back in Bristol (Rece Davis, Lou Holtz, Mark May) and added people who brought very little to the on-site crew (Desmond Howard, Erin Andrews). The commercials they ran last season bugged me, because they made the GameDay gang seem like personalities who were bigger than the games themselves. (Look at how cool Herbstreit is! He hangs out with Pete Carroll!) Somewhere beneath all of that, a decent show still lives -- and I must admit I still like Corso's headgear bit -- but it's not nearly as good as it was. I wish they'd simplify and go back to the way it used to be, but this is ESPN we're talking about.

As rule of thumb all good things get tweaked into oblivion.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Re: College GameDay changes... Andrews is in, Fowler is out.

And obviously, they brought in first Rocket Ismail (who was awful), and then Howard (who's still bad, but better than Ismail), to add a little diversity to the main stage.