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Jim Nantz to Retire from March Madness in 2023

Ian Eagle is my favorite basketball commentator for whether it’s college or NBA. Jim Nantz is obviously a legend, but this is absolutely who I was hoping would take the mantle.
 
Better without him- hopefully Eagle does more college basketball games- Nance barely does any games during the season.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
If you're going to replace Nantz, Ian Eagle is a top-notch replacement.
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Yup. It’s gonna be weird for the first few years, but he’s good. Would love to see Brian Anderson or Dan Shulman get a shot at some point but Eagle will probably be in this role for at least a decade
 
navery12 said:
Was hoping to see they were replacing him with Gus Johnson, but Ian Eagle is a very good choice too. Gonna be weird not having Buck on the call for big baseball/football games and Nantz for basketball
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Buck gets a ton of hate from people who don’t realize he completely changed his commentary style about 10 years ago. He’s said that he used to try to reserve all his emotion in his calls to let the moment speak for itself, but ever since he abandoned that mentality he’s been one of the best in sports. I think he realized that a great commentator call adds to the emotions of a great game/big play.
 
Got his place at Pebble Beach.. Wants to do golf tournaments and hang out with his college golf bro Freddy Couples and get into selling his wine label "The Calling".. Not a bad gig if you can get it
 
Pretty ambivalent to all college hoops announcers besides the one and only Bill Raftery. Couple early season broadcasts last year it sounded like he may have lost his fastball but he seemingly picked it back up as the season progressed.
 
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Looking forward to the day where we can say that Jim Nantz called all 5 of our national championships
 
Will miss Nantzz when he's gone. I remember in 99 he was one of the few people who wasn't ready to just crown Duke champions.
 
I know some people will dislike the Syracuse connection, but I’m a big fan of Sean McDonough’s work and think he’d be excellent in this role. He’s called some classic UConn games in the past including the Washington game in ‘98 and the 6OT game against Syracuse. Great memories.
 
aburks41 said:


Pretty bummed about this. Nantz has been on the call for all 4 of our titles. He’s got the best big game voice in the business.

Eagle is great though.
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Folks, ya gotta believe, ’cause just when people say you can’t, you can, and UConn has won a national championship, in its first attempt in a final.
- maybe not exact, but that is how I recall after we won our first. He is a legend
 
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Never really liked him or disliked him, he was just sort of there for big games but it always felt like he belonged on a golf course. I'll be legitimately sad when the basketball lifers like Raftery and Hubie Brown are no longer with us. They are basketball encyclopedias and bring so much to a game.
 
I’ll miss the nostalgia but eagle is tremendous. Happy it’s him.
 
No issues with Nantz but Eagle is the better play-by-play guy in both basketball and football. I was hoping TNT gave him the #1 spot for the NBA when Marv Albert retired because Kevin Harlan is starting to show the same signs of slippage as Marv did before he fell off of a cliff.
 
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Husky25 said:
I will "like" anything, Brockmire.
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Just finished bingeing it a 2nd time. Missed a lot of jokes 1st time. I have to think a lot of scenes required multiple takes due to the other actors breaking up laughing.
 
Ian Eagle is worthy of such a gig. His interview on Craig Kilborn’s podcast is a good listen
 
8893 said:
I’ll miss him nostalgically, but smart move: he doesn’t want to get Costased.

Love Eagle. Been a fan since he started on the FAN.
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why not use Richard Neer? Then we can get some rock and roll references in to the broadcast?

Or how about the teams?
Coal man and the soul man ( Ed Coleman and Dave sims)

what about the sweater and the schmoozer? (Salzburg and Somers) .

Why not Mike Breen?

My choice is Warner Wolf. If not him then Jody McDonald!


just as long as its not fatso and fruitloops or the bird man Ian
 
I have never liked Nance. He is as vanilla as they come -- and when he tries to up his energy level it still seems like "being juiced up."

Ian is just fine, but I happen to like Gus Johnson.

It's like humor. Everyone's a little different. Just went and saw the Steve Martin & Martin Short stage show. Yes they are getting old, but they still cracked me up. Later I told a friend & he told me he "hated those guys." Different crappers for different asses I guess...:cool:
 
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