I watched on ESPN3.  I thought the Aggie Vision feed was very good.  But, I listened to Russ and Rob.   Only three or four seconds difference. 

Not very impressed here either. Was annoyed by the pronunciation of Aggies as "Yeahgies". Also, they thought every Ohio player was named LaVon Brazil. Even on defense sometimes. Is it really that hard?

The play-by-play announcer on Aggie Vision, Glen Cerny, is my brother-in-law's father. It was the first time that I have heard him do play-by-play. It definitely wasn't the best announcing job that I've heard, but it was kind of what I expected. The pairing of him and Danny Knee was not the best. Plus I feel like the quality of the audio feed made it sound even worse. Part of the problem is that Glen is not really a football announcer. Baseball is his sport (he knows way too much about baseball), and from what I have been told he does a pretty decent job with baseball games. He did the play-by-play for the Toledo Mud Hens on their television broadcasts from 1985-1999. I know that he was hired as broadcast director for NMSU, and not necessarily hired as a play-by-play guy.

As far as the issues with getting the names correct...part of the time I was listening to the Bobcats Radio Broadcast, and I heard Russ mentioned that they were also having some difficulties because Ohio changed some of the numbers prior to the game and they did not get all of the changes on the roster that was given to them.


I will say that after listening to the broadcasts of college games from other schools I realize how lucky we are to have Russ and Rob calling our games.

There was some good and bad. It was apparent they did work ahead and actually knew some about Ohio, which was nice. A lot of national broadcasters don't seem to take the time to do that. They did get names of players wrong a lot, but it can be hard to see numbers at times. A few times I wished they would zoom in on the action more, but other than that, I think the video was good. I would say it was better than the average broadcast compared to other broadcats I've heard of Ohio games by the opponent's broadcasters.

You have got to be kidding me.

Most local broadcasters are fortunate to know the name of the opposing coach standing before them on the sidelines. These guys did a better job than anyone I've listened to call a game against us. We're just spoiled by years of being one of the best broadcasting and journalism schools in the country and turning out alumni and student workers who excel far beyond mediocrity.

Met with Glenn Cerny the night before the game and traded a ton of notes info. Was interested in our game, but we all spent a bunch of time talking BG hockey and Dan Simrell's time at UT. And we actually spent a bunch of time comparing/contrasting our Nee and Fran Fraschilla as coaches. Pretty sure Glenn had been around MAC for so long that Danny Nee vs Danny Knee ceased to be funny to him a while ago. Likable guy who also runs the public broadcasting operation..........a lot like our own Tom Hodson in that he has a 'real' day job in addition to showing up occasionally on air.

Haven't gotten to see the game yet in the Tivo, but I look forward to seeing any promotion of the Cat's Eye on TV.

Joe Brackman is a former Ohio staffer. He did a good job for us, so it doesn't surprise me there were some good things happening there.

I agree.  Thought they dida fine job.  Appreciated them.  No arrogance or put downs for us - the opponents.  They had done their homework.   As good of a job as many announcers on ESPN.

The Aggie board doesn't think too much of the announcers for sure!
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That's funny.  I've spent a lot of time in NM (Albuquerque) and despite my SE Ohio drawl coming out occasionally, almost everyone I meet there sounds exactly like me.  Of course, most of them aren't from NM either.  I suppose Las Cruces has a higher percentage of natives.

My wife also is in the lingustics field, although she deals with applied linguistics and actually doesn't catch accents very well at all. I did notice the announcers accent, particularly every time he said Aggie with a long A. He actually sounded like a former co-worker of mine from Wisconsin. Of course it is true that everyone has an accent, but there is one that is the supposed desired accent for television and radio broadcasting. The reason why is apparent from the criticisim the broadcaster took from fans of both teams. I always thought the variety of accents at Ohio University was interesting. I'm from Toledo and I was told I had an accent. Of course, I thought the people from Cincinnati sounded slightly different at times and even more so for the people from Cleveland. Of course, those actually from southeast Ohio sounded the most different! But I can relate. Although I spent my whole life growing up in Toledo, where my mom and her family spent their whole lives, my dad grew up in southwestern Kentucky.