I'm a fan of a lot of these changes. Nessler moving to the second biggest game of the day, McDonough moving to the best 3:30 ABC regional, and HOLY COW WHAT A DEMOTION FOR MIKE PATRICK.

Andrew Ware?

Anyway those are some big changes.

Yeah I first read that they were minor changes but these are big. Griese getting a big demotion (wasn't he the #1 ABC pbp guy a while back with Musberger and/or Jackson), ditto for Patrick. I really like the McDonough switch to Saturdays. Nessler + Blackledge will be a tremendous team.

Definitely looks like Ron Franklin's never getting back to where he belongs doing ESPN primetime, but hopefully he'll get some good Big 12 games.

Griese and Spielman together...ouch.

Thank God Nessler is moving to Saturday primetime and getting away from Greise and Paul McGuire. Such a step up from Mike Patrick.

Nooo Quint Kessinich calling Syracuse games every other week. Bad enough he's always talking about Johns Hopkins when he's calling one of their lacrosse games

breaking up Nessler-Griese-Maguire will lose half the material for the Pammies.

Good to see Dave Neil get picked up for the ESPN Regional SEC games. It wouldn't be 12:30 on a Saturday without him.

And Carter Blackburn moves from the network formerly known as CSTV to ESPNU.

And Ray Bentley is contemplating his career choice once again this year...

Brad Nessler and Bob Griese had been together so long that it will be strange seeing them separated. I always enjoyed their broadcasts. ESPN set up a powerhouse team with Nessler and Blackledge, in my opinion the best play by play guy and analyst respectively.

I see that Franklin and Cunningham are slated for ABC/ESPN Saturday Afternoon. I hope this means they will appear on ESPN more than they have the past couple years when they've been assigned a lot of the Big 12 ABC Regional games. Guys like myself on the East Coast haven't gotten to see that duo in action very often. They are my second favorite broadcast team.

Most of the announcing's fine. Still, I don't really see why ESPN needs four-five different studio show crews though, they seem to manage one fine for the NCAA women's b-ball and men's hockey...

No more Paul McGuire. Isnt it also more accurate to say that Nesler replaced Patrick than Blackledge replacing Griese? BTW, fuck Jon Saunders and lets hope this is as far as Rob Stone ever makes it up the ladder, that snarky little bitch.

Kordell Stewart AND Andre Ware in the studio at one time? Was hoping that meant Stewart OR Ware.

Love McDonough getting closer to prime time, still trying to figure out how he got slammed to the cellar for so long. Does anyone know?

Blackledge didn't leave the ESPN Saturday night slot...Nessler and EA joined that crew and Mikey Pat and Holly Rowe went to ABC

re: McDonough, I probably think it had to do with conflicts with doing Red Sox pbp during the first 6-8 wks of the college football season did him in. He also probably did MLB on CBS too early and wasn't well loved (or hated) when he was the main baseball guy for 2 years.

Sean is the air-apparent to Brent whenever he leaves.

Mike Patrick is gaining momentum. That is what happens when someone is going downhill.

This Andrew Ware character is a fraud. I want Andre back!

mony - good insight. I've thought for a while that he is top 3 (if not #1) pbp for ABC/ ESPN. Glad he is moving into more prime slots and I hope Nathan Brice is right. This guy deserves it.

where is Pammy?

Most importantly, I will continue to get Pam Ward and Ray Bentley during big time Big Ten this year!


//Big time meaning Iowa-Northwestern and Illinois-Purdue.

Sean probably did not do enough college football early in his career because he was so focused on baseball. However, when he was on CBS with Todd Blackledge and Terry Donohue he was great. ESPN may not have been sure about him doing college football, but I think that they have heard enough from him making something out of almost nothing with Chris Spielman to be convinced.

He can blame Chris Spielman all he wants and I will not utter a peep.

Pammy and Ray have to be bummed. Another year of D-list Big Ten teams. While all of these announce teams are decent, my favorites for sure are Uncle Verne and Uncle Gary on CBS Sec Saturday. They are quote machines.

I enjoyed Sean when he was doing the SEC games with Blackledge on CBS and was disappointed when he was replaced by grandpa Verne. Glad to see he's moving back up the ladder at ABC. His calls are always full of excitement without going into Gary Thorne screaming territory.

Anyone know what happened to Dave Pasch?

Another year of messburger? Please. Favorite mistake from last year was when he didn't know who Beyonce was and called her Bee-ons. Herbsteit was speechless. Oh well, guess it will be another year of "This kid is probably one of the best players at his position in the country" every Saturday night...gag.

It's about time McShay is on a saturday studio show. He's the only college football analyst that breaks the game down like a pro. the rest of the college guys -- for the most part -- just make stuff up. I like real deep inside football info.