UMxWolverines

April 12th, 2015 at 11:22 PM ^

Now can they get rid of Mark May while they're at it? I can't stand the guy to begin with but I think what took the cake was when he was arguing that Michigan and ND should continue to play since the games that he watched during his childhood of them playing were great and mentioned players like Bubba Smith...except Michigan and ND never played during his childhood and Bubba Smith is a Spartan.

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MichiganMAN47

April 12th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^

Hopefully he enjoys his retirement. He's always been a class act. Let's not drag the guy through the mud.

Apologies for the accidental early post on the app. Couldn't figure out how to edit it.

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mgoblue0970

April 13th, 2015 at 1:27 AM ^

I was thinking the same thing.  Make comments about his analysis but to attack him personally is just bush league.  Most of the people making fun of him will be old and senile too one day.  Knock it off.

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JHendo

April 13th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^

Meh, I haven't attacked him personally (in this thread at least), but as he personally was a dick to me when I was a kid the few times I met him or at least was around him, I have no qualms with people "dragging him through the mud."

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ST3

April 13th, 2015 at 12:04 AM ^

1. I agree with the folks saying Mark May should go as well. What a self-important blowhard.

2. Trickeration. I hate that word. It's not even a real word. Maybe with Rece moving he'll grow up a little and start using real words.

3. Just let Herbstreit predict games he's calling. What's the big deal? Is someone really going to be offended or upset because he predicted USC to beat Oregon State and that somehow is going to affect how he calls the game? Cumong man. How about the fact that he went to Ohio State and IS ALLOWED TO CALL OHIO STATE GAMES?!? Now that's a conflict of interest. Instead, they pretend like they are looking out for the fans and being ethical by not allowing him to predict the g-dam game. Drives me nuts.

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WolverineHistorian

April 13th, 2015 at 1:06 AM ^

Not the same, especially when you consider the number of games. Other than 1997, the only Michigan games Bob Griese broadcast where Brian was the starting QB was the 95 Penn State game (because Dreisbach was injured) and the second half of the 96 OSU game (also because Dreisbach was injured). And even in that game, he forgot his son was the QB when he said, "the OSU defenders better get after the QB.". Plus, you know, he went to Purdue and only rooted for Michigan for a couple years in the mid-90's. Herbie, on the other hand, has had more than a decade worth of broadcasting nearly every huge OSU game, including national title games, bowl games and the 1 vs 2 game in Columbus from 2006. I'm sorry. He's a good broadcaster but that annoys the hell out of me.

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mgoblue0970

April 13th, 2015 at 1:24 AM ^

It is completely the same.  The person I was replying to said having Herbstreit calling a game, since he went to school there, is a conflict of interest.

Which is laughable because Herbie calls it absolutely down the middle on national TV (his radio show is another matter but I don't give a shit about that).  But I digress.

So, if it is a conflict of interest to broadcast a game with ties to one of the participants, it is completely a conflict of interest if your son is the starting QB and you're calling the game.

Whether or not Herbie annoys you is not what I'm debating.  The conflict of interest is.  I find it curious people people are okay with someone with Michigan ties to be on the national stage but Ohio ties are a conflict of interest.  Sorry, but you cannot have it both ways -- even if Bob only called 1 game (which he didn't).  A conflict of interest is a conflict of interest regardless of the number of times it occurs.

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Bando Calrissian

April 13th, 2015 at 1:35 AM ^

I really couldn't care less. Bob Griese was a great color guy, and Brian is becoming one himself. Herbie is great. I think Spielman is excellent. Anything that means one less idiot in the booth, I'll take, even if they're calling a game for their alma mater, or have a kid on the field, etc.

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JamieH

April 13th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^

outside of whatever BS went down with Les Miles in 2007 (which I don't think Herbstreit did intentionally) Herbstreit works as hard as anyone to keep his Buckeye partisonship under wraps when he is broadcasting games.  He's very fair IMO.

 

Spielman lets it through a little more IMO but he does an excellent job as well so I don't really mind it.

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ST3

April 13th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^

is with them not letting him predict the games. I only pointed out the obvious conflict of interest to show the hypocritical nature of ESPN. It's fine for them in one instance (letting him call the game) but not in another (letting him make a prediction.) I said, let him make the prediction. I didn't say, don't let him call the game. Let him call the game if he's the best option and he's capable of overcoming the inherit bias, which he (and Bob Griese) is, but the same cannot be said of all announcers (I'm looking at you Jay Bilas.)

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WolverineHistorian

April 13th, 2015 at 12:44 AM ^

I certainly won't miss every 1-0 start leading him to claim Notre Dame will be national champions. But that was usually the only words out of his mouth that you could understand anyway. So yay. I prefer to remember him as one should; ripping his hat off in disgust when Desmond made the 4th down catch.

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