October 30th, 2021 at 6:00 PM ^
Johnson continues to be unbearable.
October 30th, 2021 at 6:03 PM ^
Not the broadcasters so much but the Fox production is absolutely fucking awful. Notably they missed two of the most important things in the whole game:
1) Cade in the tent on the JJ fumble play
2) The review on the 2nd two point conversion. Was clearly going to be controversial since Turner had the ball at the end of the play. Fox didn't even notice it was happening because they were in such a rush to get to commercial. Had it gone the other way, the viewing audience would have been baffled.
At least one commercial-kickoff-commercial sequence. Going to commercial while Turner was on his feet and leaving the field. Every week they make these games take four fucking hours.
I'm a die hard college football fan and that was an absolutely miserable experience and makes me want to stop watching. Fox has to have the sport taken away from it for the sport's own good, but there's too much money in it for the parasitical suits who run this sport.
October 30th, 2021 at 6:16 PM ^
Not much can be done about the commercial frequency; that's a poor decision made by the conferences signing their tv contracts.
I like the announcing crew. Gus is a bit of an acquired taste but he's good for this kind of thing, and Klatt was excellent.
And I watched, for the first time ever, the 4k broadcast, and it was better than I expected. Outstanding. Will watch again.
One other thing I like about the Fox noon production: The wide camera angles on the field. You can see most of what is happening. It's an excellent choice, one I wish all other tv productions would follow.
But the replay stuff, and missing Cade in the tent... those were bad production decisions. Really bad. Ones that Fox has control over and messed up. That's on them.
October 30th, 2021 at 10:02 PM ^
Klatt couldn’t figure out pan-uh-shuk or o-ja-bo until late in the game. It’s not that hard.
October 30th, 2021 at 6:06 PM ^
I found Johnson's comments about MSU's toughness, repeated too many times, puerile. I think the guy's moral universe must look a lot like that of an earnest WWF fan anyway, but today I found him pretty hard to take. Gonna start looking for alternative soundstreams,
October 30th, 2021 at 6:10 PM ^
They were fine. I like Gus and Klatt they do a good job. Gus screwed up a few times and said Michigan State instead of Michigan I noticed but other than that they were good.
Fox's game day broadcast is superior to ESPN's now as well.
Only thing I hate are the commercial breaks. Seems like we get way to many of them on Fox vs ABC or ESPN.
October 30th, 2021 at 8:28 PM ^
Of course you fucking think that Fox is better. They love MSU and OSU just like you. ABC is better than fox and CBS is better than both. FOX is the knockoff brand vs the other two.
October 30th, 2021 at 6:40 PM ^
Gus Johnson is so annoying. He's becoming must-mute which is unfortunate because Klatt is excellent.
October 30th, 2021 at 6:51 PM ^
Gus Johnson is a huge Michigan fan and I think he over corrects at times to prevent his fandom from coming through.
October 30th, 2021 at 7:17 PM ^
If that’s true then he really overcorrected today. I muted my tv every time they scored because he went off the rails about them.
October 30th, 2021 at 10:44 PM ^
I had it muted for most of the second half.
October 31st, 2021 at 1:11 AM ^
Well, in fairness, he went completely off the rails on Andrel Anthony's opening 93 yard TD. He even finished it with a "WOOOO". I guarantee Sparty fans were disgusted by that.
Generally speaking, I am not a fan of Gus but I do like Klatt. Overall though, the volume of commercials on Fox are exhausting and irritating.
October 30th, 2021 at 7:29 PM ^
Nice snowflake. GJ sux.
October 30th, 2021 at 7:42 PM ^
They (at least Johnson) were clearly hoping for an MSU win.
October 30th, 2021 at 8:24 PM ^
Camera work is always bad. No field vision
cut to commercials too fast and no proper explanations
klatt is v good
gus is fine
we blew the game
October 30th, 2021 at 8:26 PM ^
Yeah I cant handle listening to these guys at all. I sync up this M Radio broadcast to my tv to avoid listening to Johnson cream himself whenever the opposite team does anything for more than 10 yards
October 30th, 2021 at 8:35 PM ^
Gus is the second worst play by play guy in football behind Joe Buck. Klatt is reaching Herbstreit bad as a color guy. I miss elite color by Speilman.
October 30th, 2021 at 9:12 PM ^
Gus Johnson is the absolute worst. It was like listening to a Sparty radio call. His distain for the Wolverines is obvious in every game of ours he calls.
October 30th, 2021 at 9:49 PM ^
Always prefer Carl Grapentine.
October 30th, 2021 at 11:21 PM ^
Awful, sounded like Johnson was going to have an stroke from over excitement when MSU scored. Also relaying what Tucker said once is one thing, but to keep repeating it over and over bordered on rooting for MSU. It really did sound like an MSU radio broadcast at times.
October 31st, 2021 at 4:19 AM ^
They're horrible, the fox production as a whole is terrible as well.
October 31st, 2021 at 7:53 AM ^
After sparty took the 37-33 lead, listening to Johnson and Klatt became unbearable. I turned off the TV after the last INT and listened to the very end of the game listening to our radio guys.
Johnson and Klatt sounded like listening to sparty radio nearly all of the 4th quarter.