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My thoughts on the announcers:

In the first half it sounded like Knight was eating. I now believe that he may have been gobbling hallucinogenic mushrooms.

It seemed like we were sitting with Knight and Fran at one of those round Formica-topped tables found in the TV room at a rest home. The game was on, but no one really knew or cared who was playing. Fran was there to visit Knight and the only way to engage him was to reminisce about things that happened 40 years ago, even though Fran had heard all the stories many time before. Every once in a while one of them would glance up at the TV and make some comment on the game, but it was merely a distraction from their visit.

If you watch the postgame interviews with Pitino and Austin, Knight is standing behind them, on camera, with his winter coat over his arm. He appears to be waiting for Fran to finish the interviews so that he can get a ride back to his hotel. No one talks to him the entire time.

I am now considering flying to NYC for the game on Thursday just so I won’t have to watch these three again.
 

"I am now considering flying to NYC for the game on Thursday just so I won’t have to watch these three again. "

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You guys are pathetic. Four effing pages and I still don't know if the ref needs one foot or two feet to be deemed in-bounds.
 

GopherinPhilly said:
They went on for 5 minutes about the ball hitting the ref and whether or not it should have been gopher ball.
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Which was hilarious because they missed the fact the ball had bounced off a thigh of a FSU player before hitting the ref, so it was MN ball either way. All that talk for nothing. Saunders running on the court for a ruling that didn't change anything.
 

Minnesconsin fan said:
i thought John Saunders has enough train wreck moments of his own, so to put him with Bob was a bad idea. The guy I always thought was ok was Frischilla and he was rendered speechless a couple of times and that was the best option, so it worked out. Bob Knight " i think that is why you have timeouts............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................to use them" Frischilla " yup"
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He was terrible too, from introducing Little Dre as a 'Nole at the beginning all the way through. And it is the play-by-play guy's job to keep the train on the track and he made no effort to do so. Dave Mona would have done a better job with all his experience in that situation. I'd rather have listend to Dave Lee call the game last night, even if he did a Country Hearth ad every 2 minutes. MMM..toasting bread.
 


station19 said:
You guys are pathetic. Four effing pages and I still don't know if the ref needs one foot or two feet to be deemed in-bounds.
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To continue to not answer your question, yes, I think that should have been a technical foul for illegal substitution.
 







GopherJake said:
Mo had his fingers crossed.
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in all seriousness-- I think if the refs get to go back and see who the ball went out on, they should be able to call the foul they now see that made the ball go out of bounds. Mo got fouled on the shot attempt that hit the bottom of the rim. As a men's league ref, there are a lot of times you just give the ball to the "wrong" team because it is easier than calling the borderline foul that made it go out.
 





I thought John Saunders was the Sports Reporters host and nothing else. I've never seen him announce a basketball game before and it showed. Bob Knight has clearly gone downhill recently in the mental department. It's like AggieVision, I can't tell if I never want it to happen again or if I can't get enough of it.
 


Thursday, April 3, 2014


7:00 p.m. on ESPN: NIT Championship
SMU vs. Minnesota
Location: Madison Square Garden (New York, NY)
ESPN TV announcers: John Saunders, Fran Fraschilla, Bob Knight
Westwood One radio announcers: John Tautges, Kelly Tripucka

I hope they bring a slide projector and white screen this time. It will make the stories of Knights coaching days at Army much better if it can include black and white slides.
 

Schnauzer said:
Thursday, April 3, 2014


7:00 p.m. on ESPN: NIT Championship
SMU vs. Minnesota
Location: Madison Square Garden (New York, NY)
ESPN TV announcers: John Saunders, Fran Fraschilla, Bob Knight
Westwood One radio announcers: John Tautges, Kelly Tripucka

I hope they bring a slide projector and white screen this time. It will make the stories of Knights coaching days at Army much better if it can include black and white slides.
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First of all; there should not be three announcers.

Can someone post a link where we can protest espn on the announcer selection?
 

Moonlight said:
But it has to WANT to hit the rim
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Mo didn't really want it to hit the rim, so it doesn't count. FSU ball. What the ball wants doesn't count unless it's trying to go out of bounds and hits an official. Then the ball's intent counts. FSU ball. Minnesota should foul here.
 

Listening last night, I was sure I heard wrong when they started talking about throwing a ball up in the air for 7-8 seconds. The best football punters in the world get a hang time of about 5 seconds but a kid is supposed to be able to throw a ball for 8 seconds in a basketball arena. Brilliant.
 

HopHead said:
Listening last night, I was sure I heard wrong when they started talking about throwing a ball up in the air for 7-8 seconds. The best football punters in the world get a hang time of about 5 seconds but a kid is supposed to be able to throw a ball for 8 seconds in a basketball arena. Brilliant.
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Clearly, you have never watched a game on the moon.
 

Minnesconsin fan said:
in all seriousness-- I think if the refs get to go back and see who the ball went out on, they should be able to call the foul they now see that made the ball go out of bounds. Mo got fouled on the shot attempt that hit the bottom of the rim. As a men's league ref, there are a lot of times you just give the ball to the "wrong" team because it is easier than calling the borderline foul that made it go out.
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Though it will never happen, it's a good point. I've often said that about football replays. D-back is all over the guy and the ref just calls it a catch ... but then overturned by replay, when it should've been PI in the first place. Vikes lost a game at GB like that, when Favre hit Harvin in the back of the end zone for would-be game winning TD, should've also been PI but they just called TD, then overturned.
 

Did you guys know that Coach Knight's team used to score more free throws than the other team shot?
 



Now I'm listening to as*hole Barreiro right now praising Knight because the game wasn't worth paying attention to. Smart ass sidekick agrees. Barreiro does this after stating he didn't watch it. Gaard goes, "It was a different twist. I enjoyed it."

No acknowledgement of the dementia moments about 7 or 8 seconds in the air, lay-up not being a shot attempt, one foot on the floor, etc. Gopher Hole is definitely a prime source for them. I know he's trolling for responses but I'd like to punch the pathetic bastard right through the radio. Yes, I mean you, Uncle Festus. Know you'll be checking on us.
 

station19 said:
First of all; there should not be three announcers.

Can someone post a link where we can protest espn on the announcer selection?
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I tweeted to SI media critic Richard Deitsch asking him to re-watch the game to witness one of the worst examples of sports broadcasting since the invention of airwaves. If he writes about it in his weekly column I will feel vindicated for the pain and suffering listening to those three buffoons caused me, and all of us.
 


Any chance that tomorrows game will be shown on Aggievision?
 

station19 said:
You guys are pathetic. Four effing pages and I still don't know if the ref needs one foot or two feet to be deemed in-bounds.
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For the record, Austin Hollins never established both feet inbounds after coming from out of bounds. It should have been FSU ball. The ref was so busy cleaning up his pants from the accident he had as the ball was coming his way he never even saw it. Now, you would think if you were a good sports broadcaster you would mention that tidbit and possibly discuss that for 5 full minutes.

You would think they would have done their homework to realize the significance of the minutes Oto played. Never once did I hear about that whole backstory... Had to go to gopherhole to get the inside scoop.

Nevertheless, why isn't Dan Dakich doing the color commenting. By far the best college basketball commentator.
 

UST_Gopher said:
For the record, Austin Hollins never established both feet inbounds after coming from out of bounds. It should have been FSU ball. The ref was so busy cleaning up his pants from the accident he had as the ball was coming his way he never even saw it. Now, you would think if you were a good sports broadcaster you would mention that tidbit and possibly discuss that for 5 full minutes.

You would think they would have done their homework to realize the significance of the minutes Oto played. Never once did I hear about that whole backstory... Had to go to gopherhole to get the inside scoop.

Nevertheless, why isn't Dan Dakich doing the color commenting. By far the best college basketball commentator.
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It was sooooooo bad. The story of the game was the injury to the MN starting center, and the need to call in a player out of RETIREMENT to log some minutes. Those minutes turned very long when the two remaining regular bigs from MN both got into foul trouble. This whole drama was nearly completely missed by the broadcast crew. Knight actually showed how little he had been watching when he finally said something late about "Minnesota is being dominated inside right now". At this point one of the other guys reminded him of the foul trouble with the MN bigs and threw in the fact MN was playing 4 guards at that moment. It was obvious Knight didn't even realize that, let alone the whole story about having Oto in uniform. It was sooooooooo bad.

They were nearly as bad during the SMU/Clemson game. They just took it all to a new low during the Gopher game.

Where is Pam Ward when you need her?
 

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