The Announcers

just because of how awesome we are. People always hate the best. 

Keep this one civil please. I don't feel like deleting the thread.

Brad Nessler is a good announcer.

I mute that crew every time. They are truly terrible for a variety of reasons.

urban's grumpy old man had nothing on corso's today

I don't think I've ever heard a TV announcer that I really love. Obviously there's Keith Jackson, but he retired before I really got into football. Our radio crew (not just Michigan, but the Detroit sports too) is awesome

i thought they were pretty good today. better than the previous 2 mich games they've done this year. although early in the game when spielman said denard had been running without passion kind of made me go wtf. i don't know how you measure passion while running. also his two comments about the amount of days since michigans last victory over ohio were grating but not unexpected. 

Does anyone know who's calling the game on Sat?

Or is it too early?

I just wish Spielman used proper grammar when speaking.  "Should've chose" and "Should've went" should be unacceptable on any public broadcast.  

I though Corso was going to start crying when he apologized for cursing.  Funny.

They almost sounded like two disinterested (i.e., no rooting interest) people having a chat about the game.  I thought they did OK overall.

I hate Pasch, always have, but Spielman is my favorite.  He and Collinsworth are the two color guys most likely to point out something I'm not catching.  I'm meh about Urban.

Yes, Ohio has won a few games in a row, and not last year! Michigan owns the series, big ten titles, total wins and wining percentage. He is just talking about part of the story!

"Aw Fuck It!"

I like Spielman but you should hear his local radio show, here in Columbus. His hatred comes out a bit, but he still shows respect to UM.

I liked them today....I got a kick out of Speilman taking shots at the losing streak towards the end of the game.

I know some were mad by it, I thought it was a nice little touch to really get us thinking about the game next week.

Speilman has improved a lot over the years and even urban brought a little more to it today.

if anything you can learn something listening to those guys break down plays.

I got them #3 right behind Nessles/blackledge and even Mushmouth/Herbie keep me entertained.

Only announcers I don't like are Pam ward and that new gal who sounds just like Pam ward. I'm indifferent to the rest really. Musberger isn't what he used to be.

I really like the Nessler-Spielman-Meyer team.  Although I feel like Spielman sometimes subtly roots against Michigan, I do learn about the game by listening to him, and Meyer.

about whether Devin Gardner should play, but to rant about it incessantly for weeks and weeks is nothing short of amazing. Knowing the game is not enough; a little gallantry, a pleasant voice, a sense of humor--all these are also pre-requisites. Announcers who continually second-guess the coaches and assume such an air of supierority, as if sitting there second-guessing weren't way harder than calling the game, really get my goat. 

Meyer actually warmed to the task as the day went on; other than the fact that he is a celebrated coach, I have found myself wondering before today why the heck he was there. 

Odd, I felt Spielman in particular really took away from my enjoyment of the game. My wife and I mentioned it several times throughout the broadcast.

It really seemed as though he went out of his way to emphasize that Michigan was ahead solely due to Nebraska's play, with heavy implication that our side had little to do with the outcome.

I felt that he took an awful lot away from Michigan's amazing game, and I'm sure I would feel a lot happier in my gut right now, if the announce crew had let me feel that Michigan throttled a top 20 team, rather than a top 20 team lost themselves a football game, and Michigan just sort of happened to be on the field, too.

I expect Spielman to hold love in his heart for the buckeyes, but he does have a job to do. It seems Herbstreit and Robert Smith have managed to let his feeling be known, without detracting from his work, Spielman could use a little of that.

They should hook him and Herbstreit together.  Spielman and Meyer are fine, but not doing Michigan games.  If they do the game next week, it will be the most biased braodcast of the season, maybe ever.

I'm tired of seeing Tom Ranaldi right now. He's everywhere.

I enjoy Sean McDunough (spelling?) a lot but I wish they'd put him with Blackledge or or Meyer instead of  Millen :(

I always enjoy when Musburger does the Michigan games. He did the Michigan - UVA game and this year's Michigan - ND game 

I like Musburger too.  He is old, and crazy over the top...but at least he is consistent, and amusing to listen to.  He is like Keith Jackson and is a legendary voice of college football at this point.

Musburgers "you are looking live" stchick goes back to his days on CCCBBSSSs... and I love the way he'll say "Denard....to the eenennnnnndszzzzzooonneee  TOUCHDOWN MICHIGAN!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pj2zV5FdYU

Keith Jackson was getting really bad his last couple years.

I was particularly peeved by Spielman's insistence that michigan was faking injuries to slow down nebraska's up-tempo offense.

Meyer said repeatedly that the players are coached to go down if they cannot continue for the next play, as hobbling off just confuses your substitutions, but Spielman kept at it for a couple minutes. Felt almost like the magic voice in the headset told them to knock it off.