CBS for Mizzou and UGA

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Volfan1000 said:
That has to be a record for Tennessee football broadcasts for one season on CBS.
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This will be four times on CBS this year. I’m pretty sure they were in CBS five times in 2016. Plus, there were a lot of years during the Fulmer era when Tennessee was on CBS five times during the year.
 
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These next two games are going to be a test for the "high heart rate" notices my watch displays. If we win this week I wonder if the Georgia game is a Gameday visit?
 
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cherokeeeVOL said:
These next two games are going to be a test for the "high heart rate" notices my watch displays. If we win this week I wonder if the Georgia game is a Gameday visit?
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I thought initially it would be, but they’re in Athens this week and I can’t see them doing two Georgia games in a row, even though they’d be the visitors in our case. The other two matchups of ranked teams that Saturday are Washington-Oregon State and Kansas State-Kansas. They may throw the Beavers a bone (LOL) since they took heat earlier this year for saying nobody wants them in the conference realignment.
 
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Apologies in advance, but I don’t get the hatred toward Danielson. Every school’s fan base/message board I’ve ever encountered thinks there is media bias against them. EVERY one. I guess I’m always so focused on the game and the play-by-play when I’m watching that I don’t really hone in on what the color guy is saying. That goes for football, basketball, golf, and baseball.
 
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VolCalls said:
Apologies in advance, but I don’t get the hatred toward Danielson. Every school’s fan base/message board I’ve ever encountered thinks there is media bias against them. EVERY one. I guess I’m always so focused on the game and the play-by-play when I’m watching that I don’t really hone in on what the color guy is saying. That goes for football, basketball, golf, and baseball.
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Some of it honestly might be that Tennessee just hasn’t been very good for the better part of the last 15 years. That being said, every time he calls one of our games, he spends the entire time praising the opponent, downplaying anything we happen to do well, and finding reasons why a great play we made should be reviewed.
 
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cherokeeeVOL said:
Some of it honestly might be that Tennessee just hasn’t been very good for the better part of the last 15 years. That being said, every time he calls one of our games, he spends the entire time praising the opponent, downplaying anything we happen to do well, and finding reasons why a great play we made should be reviewed.
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Interesting. I’ve never noticed any of that, but will keep my ears open this Saturday.
 
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IndianaVol said:
CBS can only take a team 4 or 5 times during the year.
They've known all along they want UGA at UT on the 18th...really the only game that week and it still has SECE implications.

So it left CBS flipping the coin between UGA/Ole Piss or UGA/Vols.

Ratings will be through the roof if Ole Miss happens to beat UGA because the winner of UGA/UT goes to SECCG with no debate, questions, or tie breakers.
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Unless we lose to Vandy the next weekend. And let’s be honest here, would you really be shocked in that Vandy game, with everything on the line, if the Vols found a way to pull defeat from the jaws of victory?
 
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VolCalls said:
Someone on another thread pointed out next week will actually be Georgia’s sixth CBS game this year.
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I have
- South Carolina
- Missouri
- Florida
- Auburn


And then - I forgot about the noon Vandy game but I think that's outside the deal about the 3:30 window.
 
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tnburban said:
I have
- South Carolina
- Missouri
- Florida
- Auburn


And then - I forgot about the noon Vandy game but I think that's outside the deal about the 3:30 window.
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I thought about that, as well. Must be a limit on the 3:30 window. Either way, I’m glad we’re on CBS the next two weekends - it means we’re playing the premier SEC Game of the Week. I know Georgia-Ole Miss is sexier on paper, but the prime slot on the national over-the-air network known for signature sporting events is always good.
 
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VolCalls said:
Apologies in advance, but I don’t get the hatred toward Danielson. Every school’s fan base/message board I’ve ever encountered thinks there is media bias against them. EVERY one. I guess I’m always so focused on the game and the play-by-play when I’m watching that I don’t really hone in on what the color guy is saying. That goes for football, basketball, golf, and baseball.
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I think I can explain, or at least help with it.

Imagine you are Gary. You're the color guy. The play-by-play announcer is describing the play on the field, the skeleton of the audio presentation. It is your job to put meat on those bones. Fill in the gaps. Make it more like a conversation. You know, add color.

There are two main ways to add color: analysis of plays, coaching decisions, tactics, strategies, that is one way ... and providing background information on the players and coaches is the other way. The good color commentary guys do some of both: some Xs and Os, mixed in with some Jimmies and Joes.

So you're Gary, and it's the loooooong 8-month off-season. You're gonna spend some time on vacation, or collecting stamps, or using hookers and blow, or whatever your interests. But some of the time, you'll spend getting ready for the following season. Refreshing your knowledge of the rule book, finding out about changes from the NCAA, maybe even talking with some leading edge coaches on how the game is evolving. AND, you'll gather background stories on players and coaches you might see during the coming season.

Well, which players and coaches? Okay, SEC mainly. But that's still thousands of players and hundreds of coaches. So which ones?

See where I'm going? Of course, Gary is going to research the hell out of the Bama and UGa players. He's gonna get so that he knows all kinds of anecdotes about them, because he knows he will cover them several different times in the coming year. The Vandy players? Not so much. But the Bama and UGa players, oh heck yeah.

And that base of knowledge builds and builds. Each game of the season, prepping for that game, a little more on the two teams you're covering, one of which is often UGa or Bama. And a lot of this knowledge carries on from year to year, too, with the players who return.

So by the time the Third Saturday in October rolls around, even if Gary does a good job learning some things about the Vols, he still knows a HELL of a lot more about Bama. Consequently, he spends 75% of his air time talking about one team's players over the others. Not only that, he sounds much more familiar with the one team's players, as if he hangs out with them or thinks of them as family, or whatever. Their (sometimes complicated) names roll off his tongue, because he said them so often. Meanwhile, he's having trouble with Nico Ee-ah-ma-lay-ah-vah.

The bias is maybe not real, but it SEEMS real because Gary has learned sooooo much more about one team than the other.

Anyway, a long answer, but that's where I think a lot of it comes from.

Go Vols!
 
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Wonder why the ESPN website doesn’t say these are on CBS and still has the Ga games TBA?
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I think I can explain, or at least help with it.

Imagine you are Gary. You're the color guy. The play-by-play announcer is describing the play on the field, the skeleton of the audio presentation. It is your job to put meat on those bones. Fill in the gaps. Make it more like a conversation. You know, add color.

There are two main ways to add color: analysis of plays, coaching decisions, tactics, strategies, that is one way ... and providing background information on the players and coaches is the other way. The good color commentary guys do some of both: some Xs and Os, mixed in with some Jimmies and Joes.

So you're Gary, and it's the loooooong 8-month off-season. You're gonna spend some time on vacation, or collecting stamps, or using hookers and blow, or whatever your interests. But some of the time, you'll spend getting ready for the following season. Refreshing your knowledge of the rule book, finding out about changes from the NCAA, maybe even talking with some leading edge coaches on how the game is evolving. AND, you'll gather background stories on players and coaches you might see during the coming season.

Well, which players and coaches? Okay, SEC mainly. But that's still thousands of players and hundreds of coaches. So which ones?

See where I'm going? Of course, Gary is going to research the hell out of the Bama and UGa players. He's gonna get so that he knows all kinds of anecdotes about them, because he knows he will cover them several different times in the coming year. The Vandy players? Not so much. But the Bama and UGa players, oh heck yeah.

And that base of knowledge builds and builds. Each game of the season, prepping for that game, a little more on the two teams you're covering, one of which is often UGa or Bama. And a lot of this knowledge carries on from year to year, too, with the players who return.

So by the time the Third Saturday in October rolls around, even if Gary does a good job learning some things about the Vols, he still knows a HELL of a lot more about Bama. Consequently, he spends 75% of his air time talking about one team's players over the others. Not only that, he sounds much more familiar with the one team's players, as if he hangs out with them or thinks of them as family, or whatever. Their (sometimes complicated) names roll off his tongue, because he said them so often. Meanwhile, he's having trouble with Nico Ee-ah-ma-lay-ah-vah.

The bias is maybe not real, but it SEEMS real because Gary has learned sooooo much more about one team than the other.

Anyway, a long answer, but that's where I think a lot of it comes from.

Go Vols!
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Thanks for providing a rational analysis. I want broadcasters to be knowledgeable, and if they happen to know more about one team than the other, so be it. I’ve followed college and pro sports for over 40 years, and honestly cannot think of a single occurrence where I’ve noticed a broadcaster on a national platform “rooting” for or against a particular team - the Olympics notwithstanding.

I guess some people get offended when their team is playing and the announcers aren’t as full of homer-ism as they are, as fans. I, by and large, appreciate the objectivity of national broadcasters.
 
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