Radio announcing evaluation

Good topic!  Didn't get to hear the broadcast, curious about it.

I listened to most of the 4th on the radio, and it was interesting. Brandy needs to figure out the balance between color and PBP. He sounds a bit awkward at times, but it wasn't a bad start. That being said, the banter between the two of them was pretty entertaining. Hate to say it, but Dierdorf is a much better, much more polished color guy than Brandy ever was, which I guess shouldn't be surprising given his history in NFL broadcasting. 

In total, it's a bit of an uneven broadcasting team right now, but it'll get better.

He was constantly late or nonexistant on much of the action. Too much chit chat when just needed to be calling the darn game action.

I flicked the radio on after TD's because of the delay and then listened to the post game recap.  I thought they were OK.  It takes a little getting used to because Brandy has been the color guy forever and Frank Beckman is the guy I associate the words, "Touchdown Michigan!" with.  I like both guys so much though that I enjoy listening to them talk about anything.  

I'm not sure how much my opinion matters considering I actually like Matt Shepard's broadcasts for the basketball games and I think I'm the only one on the planet that doesn't hate Brent Musberger.

Hopefully he gets better with more games under his belt. It was definitely awkward at times. It was weird not hearing that same ole familiar voice calling the game though

I like Brandy more at color.

A sentence on describing the play before jumping back to doing color. He seemed to be working hard to tee Dierdorf up, which is unnecessary...

In fairness, listened to last 10 minutes of a blowout game when most announcers start to ramble.

I thought they did a good job for being their first game together. I was just glad that the feed through the TuneIn app was actually behind the TV, so I just had to pause my DVR for about 10 seconds and boom! TV with radio feed was synced up

Brandy sounded a bit hyper and forced at times, but he was OK. Dierdorf was smooth but entertaining.

I was pleasantly surprised at what I didn't hear—I thought there was a danger that they could spend too much time on their Bo anecdotes and stories, but that wasn't the case at all.

As a debut effort, I thought they did pretty well. Based on the first game, Dierdorf will be quite good as the Michigan color guy. I disagree with Bando on Brandstatter. I always thought he did a very good job of quickly analyzing plays and providing good insights. I have my doubts that he'll ever be as good at play-by-play as he was at color. The OP is spot on about Brandstatter being slow about calling the plays, and he also wasn't consistent about providing details about formations and personnel prior to plays, which is important on a radio call. It'll be interesting to see how much he improves over the course of the season.

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I thought Brando and Beckman were a good combination.  That said I thought the team did well but not awesome:

- good football knowledge displayed

- Brando was late on some play by play or abbreviated it to the rough equivalent of "he runs for 4 yards".  I think the shift will be hard for him but think it is more fair to assess after say week 4 than week 1

- Dierdorf clearly has good knowledge and brought that to bear - but at times I thought he was pretty rough on some players/coaches.  Maybe it is just me - but with college players I always think of them as someone's 18 year old son and think the comments should stay a little more positive.  I always aprpeciated guys like Spielman and Bill Curry and Bob Griese/Keith Jackson because they seemed to reflect this ethos.  Don't get me wrong, from what I could tell Dan D was RIGHT in his assessment; but maybe could have been more diplomatic.

announcers, so I turned on the radio. However, the radio was so far ahead of the TV broadcast that I couldn't continue so I switched off the radio. I thought that I had heard Ira say that they would be synced together this year.

Like Brandy and mean no disrespect, but it was not sufficient for a big time program radio play by play. Brandy does not know really what to say so he just says it in a really "excited" fashion to compensate, and it is not Blaha-like where the excitement sounds organic. He needs to improve quickly or I don't think it will last.

to have radio announcers who are head and shoulders better than the TV announcers.

I always enjoyed Brandy.  Dan Dierdorf is in a league of his own.  We should be proud he is not only our announcer but also a UM alum.  His professionalism casts in sharp relief the mediocrity of TV announcers like Galloway, Smith, Spielman.....I could go on.

Dierdorf was great! Brandy needs to get his timing right, but chemistry will come with time. Good first effort

I was able to listen to the radio call while at the game.  I thought they did a fine job calling the action.  It was wonderful having the call "live" at the stadium once again!

I love getting the stats and the fast info on injuries while you're at the game.  Otherwise you get essentially no information from the PA announcer.  Dan was pleading for more run calls as he kept saying "they should run until th eother team proves thay can stop it".  Certainly a concept he was taught by Bo.

Go Blue!

Dan will get into the offensive line play.

Brandy, C- on PBP. Dierdorf, A on color.

I hate to say it, but Brando is just too mushmouthy for PBP. One needs to be smooth and quick to do football, and he simply is neither. He wasn't really capable of painting the picture, so to speak. Plus, he kept saying "Northfleet", which was disappointing.
He's a nice guy and very important to the program, but he's merely a color commentator. He doesn't have the tools for PBP.
The banter between him and Dierdorf was funny, though. Brando did a very awkward thing where he blurted "HEY" followed by silence, and Dierdorf was just like, "uhhh...what? You can't just say 'hey' with nothing after."

"touchdown Meechigan." He had a bit of a lyrical announcing quality, kind of like Harwell in painting the picture from the get go. Brandy has none of that and while DD brings a great eye he's rather dull. I still prefer the new duo and their Michigan history over a more seasoned play-by-play guy though. A lot is riding on Brandy and his ability to improve the actual game calling and drive the energy of the broadcast.

Brandy's a natural color guy. PBP? He's gonna need some practice. It was frustrating not to hear who made the tackle, or what the pickup was on offense. I love the guy, and it's clear that he loves Michigan. I thought Dierdorf was great, but they're going to have to work out the division of labor.

...then I am good with it!

but if you listen to his PBP, it's eye (or ear-) opening how little hard information he gets into the calls.

It was his first game, I'm not going to make any judgments till a few more weeks. Hearing him compared to Blaha is scary, I can't even listen to a game that he does, it amazes me he has a job.

had to synch the online feed with the tv since online was about 10 seconds behind my tv. I've never listened to a radio broadcast before of a UM game. Always been a fan of Dan, I might do this weekly now, beats the TV guys any day. Felt like I was at bar listening to buds discuss the game, no awkward moments which matters the most to me.

I only heard a little bit. Like Brandy way better as a color guy.