Katie Smith and Bob Picozzi

[schmendrick]

What a pleasure. Insightful commentary. Astute play by play. Particularly enjoy Katie's blue-collar insight.

Very little fluff on someone's 2d cousin as former USFL long snapper.

 

[tomcat]

I agree there was no fluff, but I sort of felt there was very little of anything else. She needs a dose of uppers so she can react a little more quickly when there's something to say, and so she can put at least a little oomph into what she says.

 

[Carnac]

They're OK, but I like Meg and Eric the best!!

 

[msf22b]

yeah, a little bland and non-commital...agree with the cat.
Hope she doesn't coach like that.

 

[huskyd]

I watch all games on mute. Find the announcers a distraction. I believe I know our team as well as most announcers, so I'd rather just look a what's happening w/out interruption. Believe it or not, but you see much more of the details of a game when there's no noise. You might not enjoy this OR you can give it a try. (I do sometimes miss the crowd reactions.) Anyone else trying this?

 

[StoneyDawg]

What a pleasure. Insightful commentary. Astute play by play. Particularly enjoy Katie's blue-collar insight.

Very little fluff on someone's 2d cousin as former USFL long snapper.

I agree. She is very good. A pleasure to listen to.

 

[2Husky]

There was a time during the Tulsa game that the announcers sound cut out but the arena sounds were still there, I wish that was an option all the time.

 

[osceola48]

When the broadcasts are in synch, I will watch ESPN, but listen to the WTIC announcers on the radio, especially to avoid Beth Mowins. But tonight, I liked Katie and Bob.

 

[Bigboote]

I find Katie Smith's accent very interesting. I would have said she's from an inner city, possibly in the South, but she grew up in rural Ohio. I wonder if (like me) she picked up a little of her accent as an adult.

 

[MilfordHusky]

I find Katie Smith's accent very interesting. I would have said she's from an inner city, possibly in the South, but she grew up in rural Ohio. I wonder if (like me) she picked up a little of her accent as an adult.

Katie does have a bit of an accent along with a lack of articulation. I think she sounds very "country."

 

[j66kicker]

I like them, but Bob's gushing about UConn (even when calling a game UConn isn't playing in) is almost embarrassing. UConn haters must hate him. Most non-UConn fans are probably unaware of his long UConn homer announcer history.

 

[ctdogpound]

I like them, but Bob's gushing about UConn (even when calling a game UConn isn't playing in) is almost embarrassing. UConn haters must hate him. Most non-UConn fans are probably unaware of his long UConn homer announcer history.

I agree. I finally had to turn the sound off because I couldn't take his seemingly endless stream of UConn trivia.

 

[DaddyChoc]

I find Katie Smith's accent very interesting. I would have said she's from an inner city, possibly in the South, but she grew up in rural Ohio. I wonder if (like me) she picked up a little of her accent as an adult.

 

[DaddyChoc]

Bob was refreshing... but he still comes with all those old numbers. Katie knows the game and speaks from great experience. It would be nice if she'd said Collier name correctly

 

[DefenseBB]

I like them, but Bob's gushing about UConn (even when calling a game UConn isn't playing in) is almost embarrassing. UConn haters must hate him. Most non-UConn fans are probably unaware of his long UConn homer announcer history.

What was bad though was
1. UConn is only losing 1 player, Soniya Chong and has two transfer players and a top class coming in
2. Atthe end of the game when Bob said " UConn is emptying the bench, well almost, they only have 9 players",

Umm, no Bob, UConn has 2 players graduating- Tierney and Soniya AND we have 10 players so you know, all 5 starters can actually come out of the game at the same time. Which for a full time observer of the games are two fairly bad oversights.

Look his has a great career and he's a Connecticut broadcasting icon but people here on this sight need to be measured in their assessment and realize that his skills have deteriorated (as all of ours have as we get older).

 

[1-of-the-6]

I find Katie Smith's accent very interesting. I would have said she's from an inner city, possibly in the South, but she grew up in rural Ohio. I wonder if (like me) she picked up a little of her accent as an adult.

That's what parts of rural Ohio sounds like. I think she's actually cleaned it up over the years.

 

[BigBird]

That's what parts of rural Ohio sounds like. I think she's actually cleaned it up over the years.

I lived in SE Ohio for five years and can attest that Smith's version of English is what we always referred to as "briar." It sounds Southern, a bit Kentucky back woods, and similar. It is more than an accent, though. It is also a mash-up of several grammars that are alternately crude and rather charming.

 

[DaddyChoc]

what about the inner-city part

 

[phil sampieri]

I like them, but Bob's gushing about UConn (even when calling a game UConn isn't playing in) is almost embarrassing. UConn haters must hate him. Most non-UConn fans are probably unaware of his long UConn homer announcer history.

See that is why I go to this site, so I can find out which announcer is good or which is bad. Basketball what's that.

 

[mdakota]

I love it how everyone finds something to complain about lol

 

[Bliss]

Katie's freshman year at OS got me interested in WCBB. I think she's terrific in everything she does.

 

[my2cents]

Bob is a pro, and thats the first time I have heard Katie Smith. Katie does know basketball..I think she sounded a like she was talking with an ebonic accent...similar to actor Michael Rappaport

 

[Icebear]

Bob suffers phase 4 logorrhea. It is fatal and is known to birth zombies.

 

[huskeynut]

I've enjoyed them both.

Katie is a refreshing change from other color commentators who can't stop talking.

 

[arty155]

I find Katie Smith's accent very interesting. I would have said she's from an inner city, possibly in the South, ...