At the College Basketball Roundtable each week, we ask each adherent of the coverage baton for their opinion just about a fresh topic.
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: What do you meditate of CBS’ move to replace Billy Packer with Clark Kellogg as the network’s lead game analyst?
I deliberate stirring Packer out was a good strength of will. His act had worn thin on the mainstream of the audience.
To me, he had the line from opinionated to . I’m sure he believed all of his points, but too many were coming off as just for spat’s sake.
I think it was only a subject of time before Packer put his foot so far into his mouth as to resort a Converse in his .
For North Carolina fans, he accomplished that medical feat during the Final Four.
Is Kellogg the right select?
Let’s put it like this: He’s the safe optimal. He’s not going to meeting the ire Packer did, and I unsure that’s just how CBS wants it for a while.
The guy I would have gone and gotten, yet, is ESPN’s Jay Bilas. He’s the best and brightest young analyst in the seminary game, and he would have blossomed with the occasion to call the Final Four for to come.
I wasn’t let down to hear Packer was on his way out until I who CBS is replacing him with.
Kellogg is everything Packer isn’t.
Packer is tremendously opinionated. He’ll talk nearby any achievable issue at strip.
Kellogg is more like the electoral entrant of TV basketball analysts. He says only what is safe, with unimportant, if any, comicality concerned.
I often disagreed with Packer and often originate him to be grouchy. But you always tally on Packer to speak his mind regardless of the circumstances.
Remember when he blatant the state-run leg between North Carolina-Kansas this past period was over in the first half?
We won’t hear everything like that from the traditionalist Kellogg. CBS would have been better off going with somebody with more celebrity like Digger Phelps or a optimistic, young analyst like Jay Bilas or Doug Gottlieb.
While I well-liked Packer’s knowledge and his enthusiasm for the game, I won’t miss him that much. He was an ACC shill (the platitudes Packer heaped on prior North Carolina tutor Dean Smith would circle the globe round 30,000 ), didn’t do his reading on outside the “Big Six,” certainly not met a point he couldn’t quid into the ground for 20 log and often seemed to take possession of on a bit of minutiae that had without question no bearing on the game. His a mixture of professional interests also led to some conflicts of attention, but that’s not ineludibly appropriate to this question.
Actually, I will miss him a bit during the NCAA . He by no means was afraid to express his view, and given his background and knowledge of the game, you at least had to pay attention. Thus, not Packer around during the tourney to make you shake your head is going to be awkward to get used to. As for his emergency, Kellogg is a nice guy, but he’s also as milquetoast as they come. Will he ever say no matter what controversial or said-provoking?
While Packer had a long, notable run as an analyst, it was time for him to go. And love him or hate him, feasibly the best quantity of Packer’s influence is that it is extremely trying to invent the same span of news coverage when his standby is replaced.
