(03-11-2023 10:15 PM)No Bull Wrote:  

(02-07-2023 01:17 PM)Todor Wrote:  I can’t listen to him. I hit the mute button as quickly as I can get to it. He ceased being “cute” or funny decades ago in my book. I want basketball, not schtick.

His Schtick gets real old real quick for me. I like announcers I barely realize are there.

I'm with you.

I like the goofy enthusiasm of Dick Vitale and Lee Corso. It's just a personal taste.

Now if you have someone like Pat McAfee that has the same boisterous and bloviating style while trying and completely failing to be funny, it's the most obnoxious thing in sports broadcasting.

(02-06-2023 01:33 PM)EdwordL Wrote:  

(02-05-2023 09:25 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I'm not a fan of Dick Vitale as an announcer. But as an ambassador for college basketball and, more importantly, as a decent, honorable human being ... I love Dickie. When he returned last year to call his first game back and got emotional. I was watching live and struggled to hold back the tears. He's 100 percent sincere and authentic.

A poster on Phog Net a few years back said he had met Mr Vitale during a layover at an airport and talked with him for a good few minutes. He described him as friendly and generous with his time, wanting to talk basketball. Our poster said he did not seem so over the top as he seems on-air, and Mr Vitale said that his on-air manner was something that ESPN preferred and urged him to come across that way, fwiw. That may be why some fans don't warm to the way he comments on games. He does love the game.

I don't think anyone thinks he doesn't love the game or isn't a great dude... his style, though, is just more reminiscent of a quirky home announcer who was misplaced in a national broadcast.

Retiring would be his best move.

(02-05-2023 09:25 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I'm not a fan of Dick Vitale as an announcer. But as an ambassador for college basketball and, more importantly, as a decent, honorable human being ... I love Dickie.

Same.

My favorite Vitale quote: "The NBA is about the name on the back of the jersey. College basketball is about the name on the front of the jersey."

When he does hang it up, I think it would be fitting if the final game he calls is Duke-North Carolina in the final week of the regular season. His two favorite teams.

(10-18-2023 07:33 AM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:  Retiring would be his best move.

He can easily go another 84 to 85 years IMO.