Rose Bowl Broadcast observations

There is one moment I wish I could see a clip of but I doubt it caught much attention.

Not during the game itself, but while still in the pregame when the Michigan band was on the field, Rece Davis was trying to talk as the band was playing The Victors, and you could hear the M fans belting out "HAIL!" loudly even as the broadcast was going on and you could tell this almost made Davis emotional, like he had to stop speaking and just said something like "listen to this."

Thought that was a cool moment. 

That and the... "did he trip sainristil"? i duno, but it was effective. wut?! If its a trip, call it out

I tried the Michigan radio feed for a few minutes until their time lag became noticable and annoying; it was at least two seconds and was probably going to get longer over time.  What's the point of listening to a PBP in parallel to watching it when it's not synced up?

Their biggest miss was carrying on about how Jalen Milroe slid down rather than try to go for a first down on one of his scrambles. To me it looked pretty clear that he was trying to make a move and slipped. They talked about it a lot and never considered he did anything other than wuss out.

It started odd because the beginning of the coverage was all about Alabama, as UM wasn't warming up on the field yet, but once UM showed up it turned very, very even, at kind of a shocking degree. Except for the weird and on-brand GameDay "let's ask Jim about sign stealing" feature.

I MUCH prefer Fowler/Herbie to Gus/Klatt.   Gus and Klatt are black licorice to me.   I thought the broadcast was good yesterday, but I thought that Fowler and Herbstreit seemed to get a little revved up and "here comes Bama!" every time Bama made a first down in the second half.   Like, we all knew they were gonna stop messing around and dominate at some point, AND HERE IT COMES!   Felt that multiple times.

The only real irritation I had with the broadcast was that I had two screens showing the game, one in each of two neighboring rooms. One uses a roku, the other a firestick, and I had to mess with pausing the roku from time to time because the Amazon/yttv feed was a tad behind the roku/yttv feed. All that to say, the booth was not annoying, so, okay.

Only thing I was not a fan of was the extremely obvious favoring of putting the sound system right next to Alabama’s band. Michigan’s band was more or less muted the entire afternoon or you could only hear them after Alabama’s band finished playing. 

Unlike many on here, I think Herbie does a good job and is objective most of the time. He is actually one of the few  ESPN commentators that defends or praises Michigan, even when (gasp!!!) the criticism is warranted. It seems almost like a sentimental thing with him because of his Buckeye roots. By contrast, Desmond is a straight up Michigan homer and though I love his loyalty and what he has to say, when I remove my maize and blue colored glasses I don’t take his analysis seriously. Just about everyone else on ESPN, most especially Joey Galloway, is either a Michigan-hater or an SEC shill because of the obvious commercial interests.

Never having been a fan of either of them, I did something I've never done before...

I muted the audio in the 1st quarter and watched the entire game in silence (unmuted a couple of times to hear the refs).

It was terrific ... lowered my anxiety level by 50% for some reason.

I liked the coverage. They played it straight-up, a massive game between two titans of the sport in the sport's greatest setting. They treated it like the showcase that it was, kept the focus on the game and the players and the coaches and not on old news from two months ago, and it was a pleasure to watch (except for the parts where I felt like I was going to die). 

No complaints about the Rose bowl broadcast but something I really enjoyed after 3 years of heartbreak was having the Sugar bowl broadcast on my tv AFTER the Michigan game ended and me not being sick about it.  Keeping it on without a worry in the world while enjoying the Michigan win was such a great feeling.

Not much SEC speed talk...which was nice.

feels like a veiled way for you to complain about that one missed call. those are my thoughts.

I didn’t care how Herbie kept saying Bama shouldn’t give themselves self inflicted wounds when it was Michigan who had many more self inflicted wounds.  It kind of drives the narrative that Bama losing was only because of themselves and not what Michigan did.  But otherwise, yes.  I didn’t have many major issues with the broadcast.  

IMO, not balanced at all. But then again it was difficult to understand Fowler while he was gargling Saban's balls.

Herbstreit is awful. He's so full of himself. If you listen to his "analysis," he likes to tell us things from his pre-game notes (most likely researched by someone else), and he doesn't know when to stop talking. There were a number of times when he was reciting his memorized notes about a player, then another player would enter the screen and he'd recite his memorized notes about that player then get back to the first player. He has a hard time integrating players with in-game play analysis.

He also doesn't quite understand the flow of the game and when to let the game breathe.

Was so nice not to hear Gus Johnson saying “KAPOW!” and his dumb-ass made-up nicknames a thousand times.
 

Herbie lacks Klatt’s insight (as most do), but on the balance I’ll take it.

Ok. I did a cursory check and this seems to be an appropriate spot. Apologies if elsewhere. Has anyone watched Kenneth Grant's jubilation after the Milroe stuff to end the game? I want to frame it. It should be a feature on Brian's summation post moving forward. the double bird(s) and KG Jubilation dance o' the game. 

Link to just before the play (which you really should be watching again right now):  https://youtu.be/lO38tZoA0l8?t=1217

My crappy image work with added Mason and Rod running.