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Jay Williams as a color commentator

Chin Diesel said:
He did consistently point out Indiana wasn't matching UConn's intensity and Indiana wasn't running coherent sets like UConn.

He was complimentary about Newton.

He was still overall awful and I fully expected a thread about his performance on the BY.
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For a guy who had a radio show, he's not great on the ad-lib. Does it seem believable that but for Tony Robertson, he would have played for UConn (and likely got Caron a ring)? Sounded like a thing to say just because you are working a UConn game.
 
SubbaBub said:
For a guy who had a radio show, he's not great on the ad-lib. Does it seem believable that but for Tony Robertson, he would have played for UConn (and likely got Caron a ring)? Sounded like a thing to say just because you are working a UConn game.
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Jay Williams and Jim Calhoun have both said it, seems like a weird thing to make up.
 
HooperScooper said:
Just wondering if anyone else was as annoyed with him as I was. Holy crap, stop talking already! Let the game breathe. I'm putting the game on mute tomorrow night.

Did Calhoun really take Tony Robertson over him? Hard to believe that.

Was it he or Ravech that mentioned Clingan "is driving around in a Rolls Royce"? A friend of mine texts me saying, "Clingan has a Rolls Royce? Wtf." Totally stupid comment that gives everyone watching a bad impression of Clingan that couldn't be further from the way Clingan is. As everyone who read that very long article in the New Haven Register written by Mike Anthony knows, that's not the story. Clingan was in LA with other UConn athletes to kick off Marc D'Amelio's NIL collective. He and Victor Rosa wanted to go to a mall and were going to Uber there. D'Amelio throws Clingan the keys to a convertible Rolls Royce coupe and tells them to take that.

It's hard to believe everything commentators say.
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Me but not as much as my wife.
 
Platt81 said:
There was a lot of red, but it is more that the red stood out and the blue all UConn fans were wearing blended into the background. There was more UConn fans there for sure, but an impressive turnout from Indiana.
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Was at MSG a few years back when UConn played IU. They bring fans. Was a great atmosphere.
 
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We represented

The lower bowl was split between the teams. We had our fair share. The upper
bowl was all UCONN

Have no idea about television announces
 
Randomly saying that maybe Wagner could transfer to Louisville bc grandad Milt was inappropriate & bizarre

Piling on couple of indiana players for having no motor repeatedly was excessive

Taking credit when he called to keep posting up karaban was egotistical (as is most of his shtick)
 
We genuinely considered muting the television, very difficult to watch.. Unfortunately stuck with him for one more game now?
 
I can’t believe Calhoun picked Robertson over Williams. A rare error by the GOAT.
 
Lol. The amount of folks who get annoyed with sports announcers is funny to me. Who cares. I think some of you need to watch on mute if it ruins the game that much.
 
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Matrim55 said:
Talked too much but:

1) He did his homework. Knew the strengths & weaknesses of the players on both teams.
2) Did a great job of calling out both what happened and what should have happened.
3) Had legit chemistry with Ravech.

As he gets more reps he'll learn to let the game breathe a little more. All-in-all, though, that is an excellent pairing for college ball. Made the game feel big IMO.
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I think you take some stuff with a grain of salt but he does know basketball and called some oncourt stuff out, mostly about Indiana, that was accurate. He bad mouthed NIL impacts but I also got the feeling that much of that was about resenting it wasn’t there during his college days.
 
HooperScooper said:
Didn't Williams say that Castle could end up being the best UConn guard ever? I hope so but that's an outrageous statement to make at this point with UConn's history. Or maybe he was talking about future NBA success?
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Castle is an excellent player. I won’t compare him with the UConn legends other to say if he gets his games in healthy, he will be one himself.
 
SubbaBub said:
For a guy who had a radio show, he's not great on the ad-lib. Does it seem believable that but for Tony Robertson, he would have played for UConn (and likely got Caron a ring)? Sounded like a thing to say just because you are working a UConn game.
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I agree about the potential ring for Caron and that would have resulted in no ring for Duke in 2001 too.

It still amazes me that some sports announcers make so much money since for the most part they are more an annoyance than actual contribution to the game. No hate for guys like Joe Buck and others. We do have our mute button. when it gets too much for our personal tastes which I use often.
 
mussels said:
Seems weird to me when people carp on sports announcers. I pretty much universally watch the game, and treat the announcers like background crowd noise. If anyone were to ask me what the guy just said, 90% of the time I couldn’t tell you.
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I don’t like what I hear I turn the volume off. It many times enhances my concentration and game experience, reducing stress levels. Did this many times during the tourney.
 
I loved when Jay went on this long tangent about something (not sure what it was I stopped listening) and Ravech just interjects “will you just answer the question?!”

Then coming back from halftime he has his kids at the announcers table. Kinda weird
 
WeAreUCONN said:
I love Jay Dubs. He’s a man after my own heart. Jay and Donny is my dream team, and I wish they called every one of our games. Such knowledge, dignity, and handsomeness. I thoroughly enjoy the broadcast but I wish Indiana didn’t fold like a tent. We need good competition to be great.
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Pretty weird take. Dignity and handsomeness? From a color guy on a college hoop broadcast.
 
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Yeah, announcers don't generally bother me much, different styles are interesting, but I really found him annoying yesterday.
 
It has always seemed to me that Williams has an ESPN job b/c of the Dook machine and people feel sorry for him that he made an idiotic decision (he wasn't wearing a helmet, motorcycle violated & voided his contract, speeding etc..) and squandered his talent and basketball career by buying and riding a motorcycle that he then crashed severely injuring himself. The fact that he'd still have the gall to criticize someone else's vehicle/transport/driving decisions without knowing the facts is as bad as his diarrhea of the mouth nonstop babbling. Sure he knows the game but someone needs to tell him to talk just about that otherwise STFU.
 
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Like many announcers for both the women's games, they need to stop the incessant talking. Call the game, make decent analysis - that is all.

My wife picked it up immediately. Williams playing the "I wanted to go to UConn but they did select me" crap set the tome in our house.
 
EROCK CONN said:
He was awful today. And his comment about the crowd feeling more red was interesting considering uconn outnumbered IU fans
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Not based on the eye test looking around the arena. For those who are saying well a lot of the people in red may have been Louisville fans, I will say the eye test walking around the concourse was that they were predominantly Indiana fans. They showed up in force, good for them. They also were arrogant and a little obnoxious at the start of the game and absolutely crushed at the end of the game. So basically they were the perfect opposing fan.
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Deepster said:
Pretty weird take. Dignity and handsomeness? From a color guy on a college hoop broadcast.
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It's obvious at this point that he likes to post strange stuff just to get a rise out of people. Better off just ignoring him.
 
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I found the whole discussion of the Rolls Royce thing hilarious, especially while the game was going on. Just ridiculous. I like when things are sometimes ridiculous.
 
I had to google DJ Wagner after our game. JWill speculating that he could transfer to Louisville after the season must have been grounded in some reality. But na, he is doing fine and more than likely will be a one and done. That is scummy and unprofessional. Imagine if we were watching a UK game and the commenter goes on some anti-NIL tangent and begins to speculate that Steph Castle will transfer to Providence. Williams isn’t totally devoid of talent on-air but it’s not like he’s so good that he compensates for his grating personality and huge ego.
 
I find most of the color Guys obnoxious. This includes Donny. I mute the TV and listen to music. Much more enjoyable.
 
Dogdeacon said:
It has always seemed to me that Williams has an ESPN job b/c of the Dook machine and people feel sorry for him that he made an idiotic decision (he wasn't wearing a helmet, motorcycle violated & voided his contract, speeding etc..) and squandered his talent and basketball career by buying and riding a motorcycle that he then crashed severely injuring himself. The fact that he'd still have the gall to criticize someone else's vehicle/transport/driving decisions without knowing the facts is as bad as his diarrhea of the mouth nonstop babbling. Sure he knows the game but someone needs to tell him to talk just about that otherwise STFU.
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Maybe he can go back to volleyball. He was third team all state in that, wasn't he?
 
when he was on the morning show he opening talked about how much he was pulling in at Duke. Weird he’s on that hill now
 
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