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Coaching is a very tight-knit environment. McDermott knows this guy going back to high school. Daboll was on a staff he played for college. These guys like to hire familiarity, or sign them as we saw with Carolina players. Rex brought in Jets, Jauron kept going to the A-Train. Chan really wanted Tyler Thigpen. And so on and so forth.
Until the regime gets lets go and then the next one repeats the same thing.
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Does he still make all of those bizarre racial remarks about Wizards point guard John Wall?
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16 hours ago, HardyBoy said:
Nice post, strong valid points
Also, careful with the Goldberg analogy, I totally get your point and it supports your argument, but someone might force your argument on the defensive by saying that the Goldberg move was clearly a publicity stunt, are you saying the same about Mowins?
Thanks. Which part on Goldberg would be the stunt? The using him, or the demotion? At one point, he was actually considered a rising star thanks to his UFC work. This sounds weird probably, but Vince McMahon offered him a truckload of money to become the "Voice of WWE," because he wanted a more serious play-by-play guy at the time. Goldberg remained with UFC, and through their deal with FOX, he got a gig as their #7 guy that year. And he was savaged and had the meltdown. Now, he doesn't even have the UFC gig.
The crowd who thinks that Mowins is a publicity stunt is aided by the fact that she isn't exactly on the top-rung at ESPN college football. She's about 9th or 10th down the hierarchy and received fewer bowl game assignments than completely obscure guys. I see it as CBS took a flier on variety of factors: yes, she's female, but they want to test the waters, it was just 2 games this season, and Bills-Dolphins had the lowest distribution percentage of any game yesterday (6% of the country saw it). It's easier to take a chance and see what you have. A true publicity stunt would be ESPN sticking her with Flexy Rexy and Sergio, turning it into a circus on purpose.
I didn't get the Jay Feely nod at all though. He works for CBS, but isn't even on any of the top college crews. He was terrible on the UB-Army game this season.
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She does that phony announcer voice ala Kenny Albert that gets on my nerves.
As for no one criticizing male announcers for mistakes, that's also not true. People on message boards have griped and called for Dick Stockton to retire for years for making mistakes. Or how about when FOX had UFCs Mike Goldberg doing games? He was so bad, and criticized so harshly, that he had a Twitter meltdown and was removed before he was due to call the Bills-Vikings game a few years ago.
Beth is a decent basketball announcer and good at softball, but has never been strong at football. I remember a college game a few years ago where she got into it a bit with her analyst because she kept criticizing a team for punting the ball "when it was third down." The analyst (I want to say it was Ray Bentley) said it was 4th down more than once and she became frustrated. He was right.
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CBS switches to the game
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I think Criqui has too much on his plate at his age. He does the Notre Dame games on the radio every Saturday and isn't he pushing 70 or over it? I'm not sure how old, but he's been doing NFL games since the 60s.
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In theory, he is a bright guy ( AD at UCLA, successor to Walsh in San Fran) but where did he come from, broadcasting-wise ?
He was CBS' #1 college football analyst in between coaching UCLA and joining the 49ers front office. He'll be doing the BCS Title Game for FOX this year
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I remember when he was coming out of high school, he was one of the top QB recruits in the country. He originally went to Wake Forest after Jim Caldwell promised his family that he'd give Chris a scholarship several years down the line. I think CJ transferred to Tennessee after Caldwell was fired.
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2 holding penalties on Carolina on the Basanez run.
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Sam Aiken has been very impressive, he had those 2 Panther DB's burned, Losman was off on the throw though.
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I think it's safe to say that Pennington blows.
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Stamer shaken up by the leg whip personal foul by Carolina
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Blocked punt, this is getting hideous.
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That was an impressive punt return by Fast Freddie, best play of the game so far in terms of moving downfield.
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Bowen helped off the field
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Another brilliant throw by Holcomb there.
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Out of the ones on that list that I saw, it's gotta be Ferragamo. If you asked him to do anything more than throw a 2-yard dump off, you were asking for trouble. I'm pretty sure he even asked Hank Bullough to yank him out of a game, which goes with a previous poster saying he didn't want to be around.
Too bad Matt Kofler didn't quite get to 200 attempts, or else he would win. I loved when he would replace Fergy in '84 and reel off 1 for 11 passing performances.
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It's on now.
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The Rams cut Smoker the other day. Their third string battle is actually Fitzpatrick vs. Dave Ragone
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I believe the Bills owned the Supplemental #1 pick that the Browns wanted for Bernie Kosar. I don't remember what the Bills garnered for this trade as far as who the player ended up being.
They got draft picks that were used to select Derrick Burroughs and Hal Garner, if I remember correctly.
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NC State's QB play was terrible last year.
Official Schopp and Bulldog Thread
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The last time I ever listened to them was about 6 or 7 years ago and they were arguing over whether then-Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang was Korean or Japanese. One said Korean and the other insisted Japanese.
The answer was neither.