College Football notes

[cactuswatcher]

At least for the West, ABC has the worst announcers. Until last year we were mostly getting an early Midwestern game and then a late West Coast game. This year we're getting an early West Coast game and then the national night game. The Midwestern crews were pretty good. The west coast crews have been just awful since Keith Jackson finally seriously retired. Don't know the names of the current people and don't care. Yesterday switching from a dull west coast game to a dull SEC game on CBS was like night and day. When Vern Lundquist, of all people, sounds like a great announcer, you know the other guys are just not that good. Brent Mussburgher has been around for a long time. Back in the early days people called him a phony know-nothing. These days he probably has shmoozed and boozed with more head and assistant coaches than any man alive. I'm still not convinced he knows anything about college football that the coaches haven't told him that week. Kirk Herbstreit is shrill and like most ex-quarterbacks doesn't really understand the world is not constructed solely for quarterbacks. It's not the greatest combo for a lead broadcast team. But they certainly are better than our West Coast bozos.

Words to heed:
The first drive in a football game means *nothing*.
Bad weather smiles on the under-dog. Doesn't give them a huge advantage, but like yesterday in several games, it's often enough.
Some teams like Cal and Oregon are perennially erratic. Fans just have to live with it.
Reporters should not fall in love or out of love with any team over the results one game.

Comments

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

What bad weather really smiles on, are teams with the better linemen. We balls are harder to carry and throw, wet grass is harder to cut on - but hitting the guy in front of you doesn't change.