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Watching the game screaming at the TV. Talk about this game!!! Call this game!!!! This network is lousy like Fox when it comes to NCAAWBKB announcers. SNY looks better and better every game. "Hoyas trying to keep that #1 ranking." Sigh.
 
Didn't McNutt call the Seton Hall game on FoxSports the other night? She is horrible, as is the other clown who was working with her. Agree above, just call the game, and stop the nonsense chatter about everything but the game!
 
Yes, we had to endure McNutt on the South Carolina game. I sighed loudly when I saw it was her again. She talks about everything but the game!
 
I thoroughly enjoyed the play by play dude critiquing Liv's foul shooting form early on. NO!!!
I dislike many of the ESPN announcing teams but these 2 made me miss some of them.
And obviously I exclude Sue and Rebecca in my ESPN assessment.
 
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I was thinking during the game that Yarders will probably kill this squad , too. And they were fine.
 
Personally, This was much worse than Fox.or Espn. The story telling is always annoying but these guys were at 100 decibels all game.
 
This all echos my comments in the post game thread at 7:57. I didn't see this thread at the time I posted there.
 
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It was irritating here them talk about things having nothing to do with the action on the floor and for the guy confusing the teams.
 
Slovak-blue said:
I don’t think they are so bad. A little less talk would be nice
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I like talk.

For example: when there's a stoppage in play: why? Change of possession, why? Foul? On whom? One thing that drives me crazy is when a player is closely guarded, maybe double-teamed, against the sideline. Whistle blows; before you can even see who has possession there's a commercial. What happened? It would be nice if they could stop chattering just long enough to tell us. Instead the blather often runs right up to the commercial and continues unabated when the game continues.

SNY at least tries.

I don't like chatter.
 
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MSGRET said:
Maybe because the color commentator was the same person, McNutt. She just rambled on and on and on not even commenting on the action during the game. She showed favoritism towards SC saying "we" many times when she was discussing them during the game.
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Their has to be more Kara Lawson's out their. Or put more Male's to do the woman games until they could replace these woman that talk the whole game about nonsense. We shouldn't have to watch the games on mute !
 
topogigio said:
Didn't McNutt call the Seton Hall game on FoxSports the other night? She is horrible, as is the other clown who was working with her. Agree above, just call the game, and stop the nonsense chatter about everything but the game!
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Not a fan of McNutt. The more I listen to other broadcast teams from the networks call a game, the more I appreciate Culmo and Bestwick. IMHO, the best network broadcast team to do a UConn game this year was Lisa Byington and Sarah Kustok. They did the DePaul game for Fox on Jan 31. I thought these ladies did an excellent job. Here's the replay to refresh your memory. Compare this to that which was forced upon us Friday. :confused:

 
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#1ncfan said:
Watching the game screaming at the TV. Talk about this game!!! Call this game!!!! This network is lousy like Fox when it comes to NCAAWBKB announcers. SNY looks better and better every game. "Hoyas trying to keep that #1 ranking." Sigh.
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That's right---irritating to see a big play and have the announcers not even notice while talking about something else. I had to mute them or be distracted from the game.
 
How this season has progressed...from "how can I watch this game" to announcers are too chatty. Should be a good thing you're watching the game.
 
All TV announcers are bad. All of sports. The old guys who were raised by working radio were great because they had to describe what was going on. Now, they talk all kinds of meaningless stuff
 
mbr33ct said:
How this season has progressed...from "how can I watch this game" to announcers are too chatty. Should be a good thing you're watching the game.
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I'll concede that it's nice to be able to watch a game this season, however, when play stops and a player with 3 fouls on her is in the middle of the camera and the announcers are jabbering away about another game or team, it's frustrating! It's especially difficult too if you can't see the refs call. How about when you notice someone else has subbed in and they never said anything about that as well? Talk about 'unrelated' things another time! These announcers are getting paid to call the game at hand........... :confused:
 
LCConnFan said:
Talk about 'unrelated' things another time! These announcers are getting paid to call the game at hand........... :confused:
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I think that this is NOT true and I think that is where the issue resides.

All sports coverage has "evolved" from game description to extensive prepared back stories with a emphasis on entertainment. Some more than others. For example the in game commentary on Hockey games seems to me (with my limited viewing) to focus on covering the fast evolving live action rather well. But look (listen) to football games and men's basketball. Multi-person teams of people are common. Pre-game halftime and post game feature large groups of hucksters all lined up with scripted back stories.

The in-game team also has scripted back stories that compliment the story lines set up in the pre-game. It is pre-decided who and what they will focus on and they find a way to insert those prepared story lines during the game whether the action supports that narrative or not. Along those lines the announcers are given scripts of material that support the network in general (info and promotion on other sports or events covered by that network)

Rightly or wrongly, the people who run the productions believe this is the way to maximize viewership and thus maximize advertising $$$$

I believe that women's basketball takes this trend to the next level and these same people believe that the fan base (as it is) is a less devoted or less serious sports fan. With that belief they feel that to hold the attention of the less serious fan they need to provide a stream of various stories of human interest or controversy to gain and hold the viewer's interest. Similar to today's news presentations, the line between informative relating of facts and entertainment has blurred and it seems to me it not going back.
 
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