note to color commentators after this year: less is more

To have a last name like Wiener makes me laugh a little bit.

Agree completely with the Jesse Palmer sentiment. They either need to move him onto Gameday or give him a full slate of games next year. Sean McDonough/Jesse Palmer anyone?

I know he didn't do a lot of games, and what he did was on ESPNU where no one heard them, but Larry Coker made for a good analyst. He didn't really get too excited about things, but he was solid at providing insight and explained why a team would do x instead of y.

Charles Davis was pretty solid. You are crazy if you think he regressed.

Personally I thought that the Where's Paul was entertaining. It wasnt' entertaining in the traditional sense like they wanted it to be, but because it was a blatant attempt to get Maguire out of the booth. Bob Griese's thinly veiled hatered of him was one of the reasons I loved watching that team.

Sweet Lou. Everlasting.

AA - I don't see it with Bolerjack, Isaw him do two games this year and he had no idea the clocked stopped on every out of bounds play. Twice he said the clock will run when put in play. I think he's awful.

The best college football team was Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried back in the day.

I kind of smirked when I first saw Palmer way back when, too, but I gotta admit - every time I saw him, at a game or in-studio, he was solid.

Which, obviously, means tWWL will demote him.

Charles Davis = good golf analyst

I think Saunders/Flutie/Palmer were so pumped about the International bowl is because they all have ties (either being born or playing) to Canada.

Those LSU girls aren't so hot when you enlarge them...but I guess few are...

Is Jesse Palmer the next Gus Johnson as far as the internets loving his underrated work???

phil, I was going to say the exact same thing.

@rs27:
The Franklin/Gottfried/Karsten combo was the best on TV, broken up only by unfortunate circumstances.

Craig Bolerjack has enough trouble keeping names straight in his day job of calling Jazz games for FSN Utah without having to do any more SEC games for CBS. He's brutal.

my mom is convinced Jesse Palmer is there to bring in female viewers of ABC's the Bachelor

ron franklin she be part of the lead team - like before. for me he is the voice of college football and basketball for that matter.

i like holtz but he's no trev alberts. that team needs more spark. if i hear holtz not take a position on a coach or team or whatever i am going to go crazy. trev wasn't perfect but he called folks out and it worked. mark may needs him.

that makes me more mad then anything when it comes to fucking Mark May, i lived in Bristol for my first 21 years and im going back to live in CT to finish my life, what a douche i love that place, he doesnt know whats there cause if he would leave the building someone would kill him.

God, however worse Andre Ware is, Paul Maguire is 10x more terrible. The guy is horrible. I kinda wish ESPN kept their Sunday Night Package so I don't have to listen to that buffoon ramble on like he does and ruin my Saturdays. Oh well :)

I'm not feeling the Vasgersian stuff over here. I'm not particularly a big fan of his. I also disagree about Corso, I love the comic relief he brings to the set.

I do agree though with the Ron Franklin and Jesse Palmer sentiments. Ron Franklin and Mark Gottfried should never have been split up. Palmer was with CSTV for a while as an analyst and he disappeared for the 2006 season.

One thing I wish ESPN would do is keep the announcing crews more consistent. They keep jumbling them up and Ron Franklin is constantly getting demoted.

To wrap it up, there has to be other guys out there that can announce not named Pam Ward, Ray Bentley, Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham, Tim Brandt, or Andre Ware. Please get these people off of the air, you're killing me here.

I see a lot of folks enjoying Ron Franklin's work but for me he's about as bad as it gets. Been wishing he would go away for awhile now. I do think Jesse Palmer did a fantastic job this season. That International Bowl with Saunders, Palmer and Flutie was as fun as any three announcer team could ever make such a meaningless game. Yet, the ultimate highlight of the 2007 season was Cartman introducing Colorado's starters vs. Nebraska. Priceless.

Ron Franklin is someone I think we remember fondly on ESPN's Saturday Night football coverage. I just wished Adrian Karsten had paid his taxes.
I just thought of this...No grades for FSN/CSTV/Versus/NBC?
Versus deserves an F just for the blown TD call of the Stanford-USC game......kidding.
The focus belongs on ESPN/ABC & CBS because these were the broadcasts that most college football fans watched. Aside from the blown Ron Thulin call & "Face Rape' by Dave Lapham, I couldn't tell you anything about those other broadcasts.

Someone who got wrongly off the hook here because he never should even though the east coast rarely hears him: Dan Fouts. Go back to being an analyst, dude. You're the Bryant Gumbel of college football.

For entertainment value McDonough, Spielman, and Rob Stone are hands down the best crew. If you don't watch those Friday night games, you're missing out--even if you hate WAC football (and who doesn't?).

you know what? i think you loooove jess palmer...haha h*mo! just kidding, he was good- i agree with you.

Also, yeah, FOX should be ashamed of itself. Davis and Brennaman (and Alvarez) are so f'n bad.

I have something worse than "Where's Paul": ESPN MUST stop having phone interviews during their games. In-booth guests are distracting enough (I though Lennox Lewis was going to push Flutie right out of the booth), but a bad cell phone interrupting actual game play on a network with 40 hours of interviews already is pointless.

I don't relish doing this, but your remark about Jonathan Wiener didn't cut the mustard. It's Trinity University, not Trinity College. At least that's what my degree says!

Gus is getting me ready for March with this Vandy vs UK game today, outstanding announcing and a great game. Sloppy but competitive- the game. Gus is just outstanding.

THIS JUST IN (Cause I can't wait for the live blog):

I've killed Sarah Connor. She is dead, stop running promos for her Chronicles, FOX.

I agree, FOX was just God-awful. Although one crew I enjoy listening to is Tom Hammond and Pat Haden for NBC. I know, I know, I'm a Michigander and it's blasphemous for me to appreciate anything that deals wtih Notre Dame, but they are a good crew.

Versus was alright, their production was a little improved compared to the games they did last year. Somebody tell Joe Bennanati and Mark Jones that I don't want a dictionary when I sit down to watch a college football broadcast.

David, you beat me to the correction. Glad to see there is another tiger reading and trying to remind people its trinity university and not trinity college.

Gary Danielsen is best college footbal announcer in the game. He's objective, articualte, and his keen unsight is unparrelel. He knew better to leave ABC\ESPN because they're so bias towards the Big 10.