Harrumph! Hear, hear! (In my most distinguish Irish accent) Randy
----- Original Message ----- From: Woody To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:53 PM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Gary Danielson They have always (that i can remember) never been objective.. and when they havent its never been in the Gators favor... they are out to see Fla lose or fail Im convinced. Woody On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jerry Belloit <[email protected]> wrote: Steve, I have to admit that I got pretty annoyed yesterday at the announcers. They definitely seemed to be biased toward LSU. However, I also have to admit that it is their job to create interest in the game. As such, we can expect that they would take the side of building up the underdog so as to make the game more interesting. Unfortunately, usually the underdog is playing Florida. In the case of the SEC championship game, it would be their job to build up the winner as a national championship contender. That would create more interest in the SEC championship game and thus improve the ratings. Jerry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve McKibben Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Gary Danielson I'm not going to try and change anyone's mind about Danielson - after all, how much a person likes/dislikes an announcer's style and/or substance is highly subjective. But here's my take on the guy: I don't think there's a better X's and O's guy in the business, particularly at reading alignments and tendencies during the game. That alone makes him worth listening/paying attention to for me. My biggest annoyance with him is that he seems to select what his pet "talking point" for the game will be beforehand, and he beats that point to death. During last year's game against Georgia his talking point was how great Matt Stafford is. He even shrugged of the INT's he threw by saying that they were due to his "gunslinger mentality" as though that alone made up for the poor decisions that led to them. Last night it seemed that he wanted to talk about the speed of LSU's defensive back seven. To his credit, as the game went on he gave major props to the UF offensive line. He does seem to favor one team each game, and if it's not us it sounds pretty bad. But there have ben games where we've been on the other side of that, we just don't notice it when he praises our guys because he's saying things we already know/agree with. And we may owe him a huge debt of gratitude for the way he detailed, on national TV during the SECCG against Arkansas, why we should be included in the NC game instead of Michigan. All that said, I can certainly understand why some don't/won't listen to him when he's doing our games. -Steve</table --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
