SIAA- Mike Keith’s Color Man?

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Wouldn't this be sweet? Probably need to go blue font, because it'll never happen, but dang, can you just IMAGINE the explanations of each play, before and after the snap? Not to mention the sarcastic wit and inside stories of his life of football. I'll lay awake dreaming of this scenario until I hear different.

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Edit: Having a super bowl winner as a color commentator has already happened for the Vols. Bill Anderson, John Ward's sidekick played in Super Bowl 1 for the Green Bay Packers. Also on that Super Bowl 1 team was Bill Curry who coached for Alabama and Kentucky.
 
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ptcarter said:
Wouldn't this be sweet? Probably need to go blue font, because it'll never happen, but dang, can you just IMAGINE the explanations of each play, before and after the snap? Not to mention the sarcastic wit and inside stories of his life of football. I'll lay awake dreaming of this scenario until I hear different.

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Archie was the color man for the New Orleans Saints radio broadcasts, and I never heard of a Saints fan who watched the games listening to the TV commentators.
 
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Teeman said:
Charles Davis would be great. One of my all-time favorite VFLs. One of the first games he called was the 1987 Orange and White game.
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Charles has too many things going, and Tennessee can't/won't match his salary. Charles is so much better than Romo it is crazy that He isn't paired with Nance.. Politics; since Romo is the worst analyst ever. EVER.
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
He’s the best in the business. Maybe he’s ready to stop traveling so much with his TV duties?
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He could do worse! The University of Tennessee Athletic Department really has a grasp on how to be family and support families. One might refer to it as "culture" ...but that would be coach-speak, right? ;)

FWIW: There's a recent adage that says, "The currency of the future will be relationships of trust." Maybe that will be our corrective response to life in an A.I. world. Or maybe it's the principalities' meme to usher us peacefully into another age of serfdom.

But either way, I'd rather live with that currency than any alternative, and I think the UTAD's culture is making UT a destination opportunity.
 
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ptcarter said:
Wouldn't this be sweet? Probably need to go blue font, because it'll never happen, but dang, can you just IMAGINE the explanations of each play, before and after the snap? Not to mention the sarcastic wit and inside stories of his life of football. I'll lay awake dreaming of this scenario until I hear different.

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Edit: Having a super bowl winner as a color commentator has already happened for the Vols. Bill Anderson, John Ward's sidekick played in Super Bowl 1 for the Green Bay Packers. Also on that Super Bowl 1 team was Bill Curry who coached for Alabama and Kentucky.
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Curry also coached at Georgia Tech.
 
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I haven't seen this mentioned, and maybe it's not a possibility, but John Ward always called basketball games solo. And he was magnificent. I would like to see Keith go solo.

It's not like football where you need a spotter to mark the ball. I thought Ward going solo in basketball gave him a better flow and control of the call. No one to interrupt him. Kesling could never pull this off, but the great ones like Ward (and Cawood Ledford, as another example) could make it work. I think Keith could too.
 
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Lots of good option for football color analysts are right here in town. Will Overstreet, Kevin Simon, Troy Fleming to name 3. Heath Shuler isn’t in Knoxville, but he’d also be really good imo.
 
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Baring a last minute change, it'll be Ramon Foster and Jayson Swain for football with Brent Hubbs staying on as spotter/in-game host and Steve Hamer for basketball.

They're going to re-evaluate the broadcast crews for the other sports the Vol Network carries (WBB, Baseball and Softball), studio programming and the weekly radio shows after the Orange and White Game and make an announcement on everything at one time later this summer. John Wilkerson will continue as the lead voice for baseball, everything else is up in the air.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
I haven't seen this mentioned, and maybe it's not a possibility, but John Ward always called basketball games solo. And he was magnificent. I would like to see Keith go solo.

It's not like football where you need a spotter to mark the ball. I thought Ward going solo in basketball gave him a better flow and control of the call. No one to interrupt him. Kesling could never pull this off, but the great ones like Ward (and Cawood Ledford, as another example) could make it work. I think Keith could too.
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100% agree. Ward wouldn't have been nearly as great doing Vols basketball games with a sidekick messing up the beautiful flow he would have. I remember being riveted listening to road games and his calls of "bottom!". I know nothing about Keith, but if he's as good as people say he is, no hoops analyst is needed.
 
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