Kirk Herbstreit is calling the Iowa-Michigan game

Better him than Brock Huard.

There are worse annoucers in the world. I'm fine with him

Who is he paired up with?  It makes a difference.

I used to hate when he was paired up with Muss.  Muss would egg him on against us and Herbstreit would happily oblige.

The worst was the game at Nebraska when Denard got hurt.  Their coverage of us was absolutely mocking in content and tone.  F that.

 

Better than Galloway. He's decent. He might be a little biased but he's not a tool like Joey.

when Michigan sucks and it's obvious OSU should smack us.  His rational side knows that the B1G is better when Michigan is elite.

However, as a former OSU player he will always have bias and now that we are actually good again, the fan side of him his getting concerned. Can't blame him...I would be the same way, trying to look impartial but deep down rooting for my alma mater against its rivals.

https://www.google.com/#q=radio+stations+covering+michigan+football

If it really bothers you, and beloieve me the players can't hear, simply mute the t.v. and tune into one of the above stations proved by link. 

I have web radio broadcast with Dierdorf and a mute button at my disposal.  

I don't even think Herbstreit's family likes Herbstreit.

The Ohio state commentators are calling our game. Can't wait.

I have an awesome Herbstreit story. It was the first Michigan night game under the lights - UM vs ND - and we won in an incredible ending. We stayed thru with the band finishing late into the night and Kirk stayed as well - we got right down next to him and he said it may have beeen the best college footballs game he had ever watched. Seemed genuine. Leaving the stadium at like 1AM, he opened the window of his SUV and was very positive about Michigan talking UM tradition and eating his pigs-in-blankets like they were candy ...

I used to really like Herbie, but recently I feel like he is lazy and gives pretty generic statements without much thought. He does the same in game and on game day. Obviously he is better than most of the awful people ESPN has but he has just been slipping in my book.

 

Hence buckey to the role stat. No matter, we'll defeat them anyway.

Take a drink every time he says "Michigan isn't quite there yet as a team". You will be drunk fast.

Yes, he's annoyed me before and been biased, but everyone has that in them.  I think overall, he does a good job.  Won't matter against Iowa.  He'll have to try really hard to not talk us up as we demolish the hawkeyes.

GO BLUE!!

Like Herby. The 'pin their ears back' line he uses 40 times a game annoys me more than his slight OSU homerism. I wouldn't respect the guy if he werent a little homerish.

The Griese/Levy/Mcshay team is great. I'd take them every game. Also, I was thinking ESPN should assign crews to certain teams for the whole year. It'd only make sense to do this for the heavy weights. Let the crew really know the team. Greise and Levy have covered us so much its sort of like that, and I think the coverage has benefited for it.

I wil give him credit, he is not afraid to speak his mind.  He has been honest about UM needing to prove they deserve the early season high rankings.  Also to the point that CU and PSU may be better now than when we played  them my answer is one that he made about OSU's strenght of sched,  You can only control what a team is like when you play them.  What they do after you play them can make you look good or bad but only based upon your result against them. "  That is so true of UM right now.  The other big comment about our schedule is that we have "only left the state of Michigan one time and that was to abuse a very bad Rutgers team.  How will they handle Iowa?"  Well at the begining of the year Iowa looked like our 3rd or at worst 4th toughest opponent.  Now I would put them behind OSU, Wisconsin, Colorado, and maybe even Sparty (simply because it is a rivalry game).  Even PSU with no LB's looks better that what I am seeing out of Iowa these days...

 

This is really just as unthinking of the networks as to put Millen at a game in this state

Face it, ex-OSU college football talking heads have infected sports media outlets like a plague, and some of the worst appear on multiple shows (BTN Final Drive, BTN Live, ESPN College Football Final, etc.). For me, Joey Galloway and Robert Smith are tied for #1 as the biggest Michigan-hating, smirking assholes on TV/Cable. Smith finally ate some crow when OSU lost to Penn State, but Galloway's smirk is still there anytime he is obligated to say something about Michigan, which isn't much, and almost always includes a final skeptical douchey comment. Herbstreit is more fair but has been pretty low key about our accomplishments this year. We won't get any respect from those assholes until we win in the Shoe in three weeks. And I hope we win bIg or those guys will unleash a litany of excuses why OSU lost.

Herbstreit doesn't come close. One is an Analyst's analyst, and Herbstreit is the other. He cannot hide his bias. Since he never beat us on the field of play, this is all he has. He hates us.

Always damning Michigan with faint praise and he's apparently enjoyed doing it the last ten years. Party is over this year, this year we get to see Kirk squirt some tears over his Buckeye$.

Speight is twice as good now as v's colorado and penn state ! Our oline has developed into a
Machine

Don't like him?  Listn to the radio feed.