Need New Basketball Radio Play by Play

#26
#26
TheMookieMonster said:
I don’t think it’s fair to make sweeping judgement about Mike’s ability to call basketball games just yet. Like @NighthawkVol implied above me, it’s exceedingly rare, if not impossible to find someone who excels on radio at calling all 3 sports.

Mike is going to get better. They also aren’t going to fire him and replace him with someone else lol. So we might as well give him a chance to improve and just understand he won’t be as good as he is at football. I mean, it’s not like Bob Kesling was the best basketball announcer either.
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No one has called for Mike to be fired. I suggested letting Mike stick to football and hire a basketball guy. That's all.
 
#27
#27
rdk4121 said:
I always thought Bob was great at basketball, him and Bert were a great pairing. Bob certainly lost some enthusiasm in these recent years.

I haven't listened to much of the radio broadcasts this year. Maybe Chris and Mike will improve. Steve Hamer is terrible though. He is mostly incoherent and just rambles. While I'm sure his knowledge of basketball is fine, it absolutely does not come across in any broadcast I've ever heard from him.

Dane is fantastic, but I don't see why he'd leave his SEC network gig for just a radio gig.
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Dane is an analyst. Play-by-play is entirely different
 
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#29
Flamparadiddle said:
Good grief. Let's fire the waterboy for not waterboying right, let's fire the cheerleaders for not cheering right, let's fire the band for taking too long at half time, let's fire smokey for not barking at the right time.
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Why fire the cheerleaders? The only people watching them are their parents and boy/girlfriends.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
That’s just a different way of saying fire him as the basketball guy lol. Distinction without a difference.
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No it's not. To me he's pulling double duty. They hired him from a spot where he only did football for 25+ years with NO basketball experience. It would just be letting him do what he does best and the real reason he was hired.
 
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madbamahater said:
No it's not. To me he's pulling double duty. They hired him from a spot where he only did football for 25+ years with NO basketball experience. It would just be letting him do what he does best and the real reason he was hired.
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He's pulling double duty because that's the job of being the play by play guy at Tennessee. They can change it but the point is you probably need to let him have a season or 2 to get used to calling basketball before you call for changes that big. Also from everything I've seen, MK wants to do both.

I've listened to a few games and I thought he was fine. Bob was pretty terrible at both for his first few seasons and never was particularly great at football but got much better at basketball.
 
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