Musberger, Herbstreit, Davie to work ABC Saturdays

[Irish Envy]

NEW YORK -- Brent Musburger will team with analysts Kirk Herbstreit and Bob Davie for ABC's Saturday night college football games this fall, while Brad Nessler will be part of a three-man booth with Paul Maguire and Bob Griese.

ABC and ESPN revealed their new announcing teams Wednesday.

Other interesting changes include Dan Fouts moving from the analyst position he held last season to play-by-play. The NFL Hall of Famer will be in the booth with Tim Brant.

Mike Patrick and Todd Blackledge will team up for ESPN's Saturday night broadcasts, while Doug Flutie will be in the studio for both ESPN and ABC. Also, Chris Fowler will take over the play-by-play duties from Mike Tirico for ESPN's Thursday night games.

Source: ESPN.com

 

[Fitzgerald]

Love Herbie and Davie as announcers, but Musburger's a hack.

 

[Aerosmith777]

Fouts scares me as a play-by-play guy....that could really be a trainwreck...

I know he's a lousy Eagle and all, but I'm kinda lookin forward to seeing Flutie in the studio

 

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Love Herbie and Davie as announcers, but Musburger's a hack.

Yeah. I honestly wondered whether or not Davie would do well...I think he's 2x as good as most guys. It helps that he knows modern football.

Herbie gets better every year...he's fair too...which is a far cry from most of the hacks out there.

 

[maison bleu]

Herbie's OK, even though on some level he'll always be a Useless Nut.

Does anyone else remember the Musberger impression Kevin Nealon did on SNL back in the day? lmao.

 

[luckofirish8]

does anyone know what this will do to ESPN's College Gameday?

 

[irishnd31]

Herbie's OK, even though on some level he'll always be a Useless Nut.

Does anyone else remember the Musberger impression Kevin Nealon did on SNL back in the day? lmao.

Nealon would hold the sides of his eyes and pull back towards his ears when talking during the skit. That was funny.

 

[KMac151993]

I don't like all these changes, what happened to Gary Danielson? I liked the system they had last year...maybe I'll just sit back and watch but without sound this year.

 

[irishnd31]

I don't like all these changes, what happened to Gary Danielson? I liked the system they had last year...maybe I'll just sit back and watch but without sound this year.

That's what I used to do when Fouts or Jackson would call a game. Could not stand to listen to the television, and would flip throught the channels trying to find the game on Westwood One. TOny Roberts was a huge reason why I loved Westwood 1 though, and I guess from now on I will have to suffer through the television play by play (although I have nothing against Criqui).