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Okay, here's the deal with the basketball announcers for ISU Men's Basketball on The Valley on ESPN3.

THEY'RE STUDENTS.

There is virtually no reason to criticize the work they're doing as they announce these games. They are not professionals. They are not on a scholarship for basketball announcing. They are not even interning for ESPN. They are simply ISU students who've been thrown into the fire of this brand new partnership with ESPN. If you listen closely, every game (or almost every game) has a new duo of announcers. So, it's not like they have the opportunity to improve from game to game...they're doing one-off games to get experience in broadcasting.

We all hear the mistakes they make. They're gonna make mistakes. They've never done this before and now they're being broadcast and heard worldwide (essentially). So, yes, when Neils' last name is butchered, I do kinda laugh...but it's not a critical laugh, it's more of a "god love 'em, they're doing their best" laugh.

Enjoy it for what it is, a student production, run by students, announced by students, using professional equipment. Let's cut them some major slack...at least for this first season.
 
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More reasons I love what ESPN3 is doing for college sports. These kids could have a severe stuttering problem and I would like them better than Chris Collinsworth
 
I agree with Quabachi totally. When I enrolled @ ISU as a Freshman I was an Radio/TV Broadcasting major. I did a stint as a DJ on WISU a couple of times and was scared shitless. I eventually realized I was no Dick Biondi of WLS in Chicago and changed my major to Marketing, School Of Business. So, we do need to give some slack to the students and appreciate they are learning and at this time simply don't have the skill to come across as polished as we are accustomed to.
 
you know, they aren't THAT bad for being rookies. I really, really, really hate listening to the pros from the other school's broadcast of football games.
 
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Two words.

Sycamore Vision.

I'd rather have a beautiful video feed over announcer quality. Hopefully that will come in time if they're being mentored and taught. Experiential learning and all those buzz words.
 

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For us old guys we remember when Bob Forbes and Clyde butchered games way back when and they were being paid....lol
 
Quabachi said:
Okay, here's the deal with the basketball announcers for ISU Men's Basketball on The Valley on ESPN3.

THEY'RE STUDENTS.

There is virtually no reason to criticize the work they're doing as they announce these games. They are not professionals. They are not on a scholarship for basketball announcing. They are not even interning for ESPN. They are simply ISU students who've been thrown into the fire of this brand new partnership with ESPN. If you listen closely, every game (or almost every game) has a new duo of announcers. So, it's not like they have the opportunity to improve from game to game...they're doing one-off games to get experience in broadcasting.

We all hear the mistakes they make. They're gonna make mistakes. They've never done this before and now they're being broadcast and heard worldwide (essentially). So, yes, when Neils' last name is butchered, I do kinda laugh...but it's not a critical laugh, it's more of a "god love 'em, they're doing their best" laugh.

Enjoy it for what it is, a student production, run by students, announced by students, using professional equipment. Let's cut them some major slack...at least for this first season.
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Both the UE & Mo St. (W) broadcasts had an experienced & "seasoned" adult broadcaster along w/ a student...so ISU is the ONLY school so far treating ESPN3 w/ 100% "student only." We'll see what happens @ Drake...
 
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The Bradley announcers for the WSU/BU game on Sunday were horrible. I understand that having the home team do the announcing normally leads to a little bit of a biased broadcast, but the Bradley announcers were over the top. Openly criticizing every call that was called on BU and everything that wasn't called on the other end. If you just listened to the broadcast and not watched the game itself, you would have thought Bradley was winning by double digits rather than losing by 20-30. Keeping it positive is great, but you have to maintain some sort of realism too.

sorry /rant
 
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The Bradley announcers for the WSU/BU game on Sunday were horrible. I understand that having the home team do the announcing normally leads to a little bit of a biased broadcast, but the Bradley announcers were over the top. Openly criticizing every call that was called on BU and everything that wasn't called on the other end. If you just listened to the broadcast and not watched the game itself, you would have thought Bradley was winning by double digits rather than losing by 20-30. Keeping it positive is great, but you have to maintain some sort of realism too.

sorry /rant
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There's something that can be said for ISU student announcers, they keep it very unbiased...almost to a fault.
 
And maybe, if they're rotating them as you mentioned, we'll pick up some more die hard fans. Yes, you'd like to think these are the kids going to the games anyway, but this is a unique experience and maybe they get some friends and classmates to tune in, too.

The truth is we're all a bit spoiled by Fritz and Renn on the radio. Renn is an outstanding color commentator, in my opinion.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
Two words.

Sycamore Vision.

I'd rather have a beautiful video feed over announcer quality. Hopefully that will come in time if they're being mentored and taught. Experiential learning and all those buzz words.
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10-4. There used to be a lot of Radio broadcasting over the internet, from ALL of the MVC schools. I learned that trick from when the Crotch, or Crock was supposed to broadcast our games...and about half the time, it seemed like the Crotch broadcast wasn't on, when it was supposed to be.

When I couldn't get OUR Radio Broadcast over the internet, I could almost always find our opponents internet broadcast.

If people want, I guess a person could get two laptops fired up, and see if the other schools are doing an AM or FM broadcast over the internet, for different announcer opportunities, correct?
 
Geeez.... Where were the ISU student announcers last night vs Drake? I was begging for them compared to the professional guys last night. LOL One guy sounded like Debbie Downer saying positive things. LOL
 
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Quabachi said:
I like their color guy, former Drake standout Adam Emmeneker.
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From a 3-yr. non-schollie walk-on to the MVC's most-decorated player of the 2007-08 season!

He was named as the captain of the MVC's All-Improved Team;
He also made the All-MVC first team alongside Josh Young;
In addition, he was named the Larry Bird MVC Player of the Year;
Finally, he was named MVP of the 2008 MVC Tournament.

He knows the GAME and is very popular in Des Moines. A great all-around young man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Emmenecker


The broadcast last night on ESPN3 was captured by WTWO-TV in Terre Haute...same announcers.
 
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