Jim Nantz to Retire from March Madness in 2023

[storrsroars]

I will "like" anything, Brockmire.

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.

 

[uconngb]

Looking forward to the day where we can say that Jim Nantz called the first 5 of our national championships

FIFY

 

[RichCTBB]

Ian Eagle is worthy of such a gig. His interview on Craig Kilborn’s podcast is a good listen

 

[August_West]

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.

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

 

[seeya27]

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...

 

[superjohn]

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...

Vanilla is a good decription for Nance, which is fine. It's okay to be vanilla when there's so many other announcers running with a shtick or overhyping basic plays but I always got the sense the national championship was the first game of the season Nance was watching even if it wasn't.

 

[storrsroars]

Craig Kilborn

Surprised he's still in media. And has listeners.

Richard Neer

Surprised he's still alive.

 

[superjohn]

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.

Maybe on Kevin Harlan and he always probably oversold it a bit but he might have the best announcer voice ever.

 

[Edward Sargent]

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

Yep and SI ran with UCan UConn

 

[HooperScooper]

Yep and SI ran with UCan UConn

 

[JB75]

Sux. Won’t be the same without him. I wonder why? It’s only for a few weeks in march. It always seemed like when he was doing a game- no matter how weak the match up - it was a big game. Hands down best around. glad he’s still doing nfl at least

 

[HooperScooper]

Btw, Nantz is a closet UConn fan. Lived (still lives?) in Greenwich. At the 2003 Final Four we were staying at the same hotel as the CBS people (Intercontinental) and he saw my UConn polo shirt and came over to me, pointed at the logo on my shirt, and said, "They should be here." I said next year was our year and he agreed and we talked for a minute that if Okafor and Gordon were back UConn was winning it all. I tried looking for him on the River Walk in San Antonio to say we were right but I never did see him.

 

[alexd]

"Sometimes when you think you can't, you can, and UCONN has won the national championship."

-- 3/11/99

 

[storrsroars]

"Sometimes when you think you can't, you can, and UCONN has won the national championship."

-- 3/11/99

I never liked that line. Sounds like he tried too hard to come up with witty wordplay. Always sounded cringey to me.

 

[HooperScooper]

Speaking of CBS, Jay Wright is joining the network as a studio and game analyst. Would love to see what he says if he gets a UConn game.

Former Villanova coach Jay Wright joining CBS Sports as college basketball analyst

Wright, who won two national titles and made four Final Fours at Villanova, returns to hoops in an analyst role for CBS

www.cbssports.com

 

[Umami Zen]

Jay loves/respects JC and the UConn Program.. He'll shoot straight and show some love for Dan Hurley.. Our time is comin'