Bearcats#1
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
I do remember in 1996 when UC (CUSA champ) met Gtech (ACC champ) in the sweet 16 game...UC pounded them into oblivion and Billy Packer kept saying "Georgia Tech hasn't seen a team like Cincy this year in the ACC".......he also was a HUGE HUGE Oscar Robertson fan. I always thought Billy liked UC.
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ecuacc4ever
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
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CatsClaw
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
A lot of people are happy to see Packer go and he isn't the best color commentator of all-time.
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CatsClaw
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
Bearcats#1 Wrote:I do remember in 1996 when UC (CUSA champ) met Gtech (ACC champ) in the sweet 16 game...UC pounded them into oblivion and Billy Packer kept saying "Georgia Tech hasn't seen a team like Cincy this year in the ACC".......he also was a HUGE HUGE Oscar Robertson fan. I always thought Billy liked UC.
He did, and he was good in the mid-90s. But, by the end of the 90s, he became mainly an ACC guy. And he referred to UC and C-USA as mid-major, which is stupid. How in the world to you have a conference with Cincinnati, Memphis, Louisville, Marquette, Depaul, Charlotte, Houston, and UAB and call it mid-major!?
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07-14-2008 09:19 PM |
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Orange Eagles
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
He retired and left on his own terms, he wasn't fired by CBS.
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07-14-2008 11:18 PM |
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bitcruncher
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
Who cares how he left as long as he's gone...
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CardinalJim
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
CatsClaw Wrote:How in the world to you have a conference with Cincinnati, Memphis, Louisville, Marquette, Depaul, Charlotte, Houston, and UAB and call it mid-major!?
Billy looks at everything through ACC eyes. Not the way they actually are but the way he wants them to be. I still remember him making the comment about the woman breaking the consecutive free-throw record. He made some snide remark and she called him on it. She ended up challenging him to a free-throw shooting contest and beating him and his big mouth.
CJ
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07-15-2008 06:51 AM |
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RE: Billy Packard Fired from CBS
Orange Eagles Wrote:He retired and left on his own terms, he wasn't fired by CBS.
Not according to the media. If you are told, you want be back means he retired, then I guess so. Call it what you want. He got fired!
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