Time to Go Dicky V

[Boom_70]

Over the years I've gone back and forth on Dicky V. You can't deny his passion for college basketball, but he has now become intolerable.

Last night's game was a great one just ruined for those watching on tv by his shtick.

Oh how I long for the days of Al McGwire. "Call time out coach"

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I lost my tolerance a couple years back, Boom, but your basic point is correct. He gets in the way now, horribly.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Great guy, but he has become a distraction... I find myself muting the games he does and I don't do that for anyone else...

 

[Boom_70]

Great guy, but he has become a distraction... I find myself muting the games he does and I don't do that for anyone else...

I do the same. Its a worthy cause but the fact that he uses forum to promote Jimmy V foundation drives me nuts. It's nice that some donated $100,000 but I don't care to hear about it.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

A few years ago, in a span of five games, he called four different players "the best player in college hoops baby!"

Not one of... The best...

It's too much to stomach...

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Were any of them actually the best player in college hoops?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Were any of them actually the best player in college hoops?

No... I think one may have been an All-American...

 

[ondeadline]

I recognize that he's a nice guy with a huge amount of passion for the game. But I agree: I'd love for him to move that passion away from the microphone. Maybe Dickie V, DJ Stewey and Screamin' A Smith could start a one-hour daily show that would keep them from doing any other work and I'd just make sure to skip that show.

 

[zagoshe]

Duke Vitale is a nice a guy, a classy guy if you have ever met him. I wish him good health and happiness.....

That being said -- he is and always has been an absolute embarrassment to broadcasting and I can't even listen to him, never have been able to because of his over-the-top let's hype every player and become a shill for every coach schtick.

It gets old. Every coach is a master of his craft and the greatest coach on the planet and none ever deserve to be fired and no kid should ever leave school early -- even if he is going to be the No. 1 pick in the draft -- because he should get an education....(forget for a moment he could pay for 35 educations when he signs his first contract and he likely shouldn't be in college in the first place.......)

I understand he is an advocate for his favorite game but he has become a carnival act and a comic book character with the way he does things.

 

[Write-brained]

I stopped watching him years ago. Can't imagine him being any worse than he was then.

 

[cortez]

It's unanimous, a slam dunk, baby!

 

[steveu]

As previously echoed on this thread, he'll get a pass from me because he's one of those broadcasters who knows where his bread was buttered and he'll treat you with class, whether you're a player, coach or fan.

The nonstop Duke-boosting gets old, though.

 

[Starman]

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[king cranium maximus IV]

i'd take having my life narrated by a chorus of 20 **** vitales before listening to two minutes of billy packer.

 

[wannabeu]

He's awful with a capital A baby!

 

[Boom_70]

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Better Duke cheerleader then "Speedo man"

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

i'd take having my life narrated by a chorus of 20 **** vitales before listening to two minutes of billy packer.

Agreed.

 

[Pulitzer Wannabe]

Last night was awful. Seriously, if it was up to Vitale, the NCAA Tournament every year would be an approximately eight-team field including Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, UCLA, maybe Georgetown, maybe Louisville, maybe Florida or Michigan State depending on the year. Texas Tech until this year.

He's embarrassing himself.

 

[Starman]

Listining to DV do a Duke-UNC game is a fellatiopalooza of truly intergalactic proportions. You feel like you should wear a full-body condom even just sitting in front of the TV.

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[Fenian_Bastard]

The problem I have with him now is that he refuses to give me any analysis of the game I'm watching. When he tries, it's all obvious and stupid. The rest are his Good Friends, the Great Kids, and The Coach Who Should Get Hired At Wherever.
Oh, and the V Foundation.