I Am A Billy Packer Fan...

[TMHoosierVol]

That is patently absurd and Jim Nantz and Dick Eberg would be the first people to tell you so.
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You're right, that was a bad exaggeration. They've had to spread their study time among all the sports they cover, while he only has one to bone up on. Just poking fun, now.

 

[dickens821]

Doug Gottlieb has no coaching experience to speak of. That doesn't stop him from making Tom Brennan, who was a head coach forever, from looking like a fool every time they are on the air together.
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To be fair Doug Gottleib can also make himself look like a fool.

 

[TMHoosierVol]

Doug Gottlieb has no coaching experience to speak of. That doesn't stop him from making Tom Brennan, who was a head coach forever, from looking like a fool every time they are on the air together.
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I wasn't really thinking about studio analysts, but Gottlieb has the charisma in front of a studio camera. Brennan showed his on the sidelines. You're right, it's a total mismatch in the studio but I think the roles would be reversed in a game broadcast.

Since you brought his name up, are you aware of what a fine upstanding young citizen Gottlieb was his freshmen year at Notre Dame.