Paul Maguire To Have A Reduced Role This College Football Season
Monday, June 29, 2009
Paul Maguire is certainly one of the elder statesmen in College Football, and at 70 years old, he's not getting any younger. Well according to USA Today, the ABC announcer will be get a bit of a break next College Football season. Not only will Maguire have a reduced slate of games, but he will be appearing on some studio shows as well....
Although not formally announced, ESPN's Mike Soltys confirmed Sunday that college football analyst Paul Maguire, 70, will have a "reduced role" this season. Rather than having a full slate of games, says Soltys, Maguire will work only "the occasional game and do some studio shows and radio."I personally think Maguire has lost a step or two over the years, but he always makes the games interesting. Especially when he's talking about drinking during a 10-7 BC-NC State barn burner. Hopefully this new schedule will work out for him, and we can joke about that silly cherry picker he rides on the sidelines again.
Maguire goes pretty far back in the sport. He played tight end at The Citadel and led the nation in touchdown receptions — in 1959. After being a linebacker and punter in the old American Football League, Maguire worked for NBC before becoming ESPN's original college football lead analyst in 1979 and in 1984 began working ESPN's first live college football — after a U.S. Supreme Court decision had loosened the NCAA's control of TV rights, which let ESPN get live games.
Maguire returned to NBC and, as part of its lead NFL teams, called Super Bowl action. But after NBC lost NFL TV rights in 1998, he returned to ESPN for its Sunday night NFL games. In recent seasons, he's worked ESPN college games with Bob Griese and Brad Nessler in three-man on-air teams that included Maguire being stationed in TV production trucks and on carts that rolled along sidelines while covering games.
Maguire will take reduced role in ESPN college football coverage (USA Today)
8 Comments:
If they really wanted to do the public a favor, they would reduce Maguire's schedule to zero games because the guy is truly awful.
He is consistently the worst major announcer on any football (college or pro) broadcast.
Every year it boggles my mind that he's still employed.
He is consistently the worst major announcer on any football (college or pro) broadcast.
It's either Maguire or Charles Davis.
I've always liked Maguire. While I agree his commentary is less than stellar, he is an entertaining presence in the booth(or in the cart) and he makes the broadcasts fun. Plus his longtime contributions to the game of football deserve recognition and respect.
He is consistently the worst major announcer on any football (college or pro) broadcast.
"It's either Maguire or Charles Davis."
I'd like to add Dick Stockton to that list of worst football announcer.
Hopefully this is so he can go on Drinking with the stars...
He looks good for 70.