Topic: homer announcers !

[NewBombTerk]

I hope and pray that when Marshall has a home broadcast that the announcers are NOT as homer as these two guys are at Davidson !

[ThunderingHerdFan]

“Your Davidson Wildcats”...

On an ESPN+ broadcast.

I think they were students so I’ll be a little lenient, but they’re clearly not getting proper guidance if that’s the case.

Hopefully the next group will be better.

[GoHERDPT]

Thanks for watching my alma mater put it to Davidson in their own house. Very physical game that wore the players down. Good thing Lipscomb plays 10+ players every night. On to UNC-G

[NewBombTerk]

Thanks for watching my alma mater put it to Davidson in their own house. Very physical game that wore the players down. Good thing Lipscomb plays 10+ players every night. On to UNC-G

     ?     Marshall play at Appy State on Monday at 6:30 !

[ThunderingHerdFan]

Thanks for watching my alma mater put it to Davidson in their own house. Very physical game that wore the players down. Good thing Lipscomb plays 10+ players every night. On to UNC-G

You may not realize but Marshall’s women beat Davidson in the WBI on ESPN+ Wednesday night.

[GoHERDPT]

Hahaha! Did not. They were homers on the NIT broadcast Tuesday as well. Fun to watch Frampton play though. He had a rough game

[marshallmark]

I hope and pray that when Marshall has a home broadcast that the announcers are NOT as homer as these two guys are at Davidson !

If you watch our ESPN+ broadcasts, it features Jake Griffith doing the play-by-play.  Jake is a talented young man who also serves as Marshall Athletic Department's Director of Multimedia and you can hear him do play-by-play for baseball, softball and women's basketball.  His color commentator is usually former Mountain State Univ. basketball coach Bob Bolen, who has forgotten more basketball than most of us know, and has a unique and welcome insight. 

Both of them have an affinity for Marshall that is apparent, but don't seem to allow that to cloud their judgment.  If an opposing fan listened to them, however, that fan would likely think that both Jake and Bob are "homers" because their call of the game is necessarily directed toward Marshall fans.  For instance, they spent a good amount of time discussing the out of bounds call on Kinsey late in the game vs. IUPUI - they were correct to criticize the call, but the tone (i.e. "How do you make that call unless you're anticipating him stepping out"; "That call is clearly wrong") might be interpreted by that same opposing fan as being "homers". 

Personally, I want to hear announcers call Marshall games fairly, but from a Marshall perspective.  Frank Giardinia was the best at that in my recollection, but we've actually been blessed with some superb radio and television play-by-play and color commentators throughout the years.  Current announcer Steve Cotton is excellent, as are his color commentators in both major sports.  I do miss Woody on the basketball call tho. 

[Always THE HERD]

If you watch our ESPN+ broadcasts, it features Jake Griffith doing the play-by-play.  Jake is a talented young man who also serves as Marshall Athletic Department's Director of Multimedia and you can hear him do play-by-play for baseball, softball and women's basketball.  His color commentator is usually former Mountain State Univ. basketball coach Bob Bolen, who has forgotten more basketball than most of us know, and has a unique and welcome insight. 

Both of them have an affinity for Marshall that is apparent, but don't seem to allow that to cloud their judgment.  If an opposing fan listened to them, however, that fan would likely think that both Jake and Bob are "homers" because their call of the game is necessarily directed toward Marshall fans.  For instance, they spent a good amount of time discussing the out of bounds call on Kinsey late in the game vs. IUPUI - they were correct to criticize the call, but the tone (i.e. "How do you make that call unless you're anticipating him stepping out"; "That call is clearly wrong") might be interpreted by that same opposing fan as being "homers". 

Personally, I want to hear announcers call Marshall games fairly, but from a Marshall perspective.  Frank Giardinia was the best at that in my recollection, but we've actually been blessed with some superb radio and television play-by-play and color commentators throughout the years.  Current announcer Steve Cotton is excellent, as are his color commentators in both major sports.  I do miss Woody on the basketball call tho.

Steve's brother was very good too.

[coalherd]

Steve's brother was very good too.

Didn't he go on to the ACC, Wake Forest, I believe?  Stan Cotton.

[ThunderingHerdFan]

Didn't he go on to the ACC, Wake Forest, I believe?  Stan Cotton.

They’re not brothers, but they’re always going to be linked by us!

[Herdmeister]

Steve's brother was very good too.

Steve COTTON and Stan COTTEN are not related. As you see, they even spell their last names differently