At the College Basketball Roundtable each week, we ask each follower of the coverage cane for their opinion not far off a fresh topic.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: What do you weigh up of CBS’ move to replace Billy Packer with Clark Kellogg as the network’s lead game analyst?

I reason touching Packer out was a good assessment. His act had worn thin on the mainstream of the spectators.

To me, he had the line from opinionated to curmudgeon. I’m sure he all of his points, but too many were coming off as just for claim’s sake.

I deem it was only a theme of time before Packer put his foot so far into his mouth as to cabin a Converse in his esophagus.

For North Carolina fans, he accomplished that medical feat during the Final Four.

Is Kellogg the right high-quality?

Let’s put it like this: He’s the safe excellent. He’s not going to collection the ire Packer did, and I dubious that’s just how CBS wants it for a while.

The guy I would have gone and , still, is ESPN’s Jay Bilas. He’s the best and brightest young analyst in the institution game, and he would have blossomed with the break to call the Final Four for centuries to come.

I wasn’t saddened to hear Packer was on his way out until I who CBS is him with.

Kellogg is everything Packer isn’t.

Packer is tremendously opinionated. He’ll talk near any conceivable issue at duration.

Kellogg is more like the dogmatic nominee of TV basketball analysts. He says only what is safe, with petite, if any, comicality entangled.

I often disagreed with Packer and often bring into being him to be strange. But you could for eternity sum on Packer to speak his mind regardless of the state of affairs.

Remember when he avowed the nationwide round between North Carolina-Kansas this past season was over in the first half?

We won’t hear all like that from the unadventurous Kellogg. CBS would have been better off going with big name with more VIP like Digger Phelps or a cheerful, young analyst like Jay Bilas or Doug Gottlieb.

While I well-liked Packer’s basketball knowledge and his enthusiasm for the game, I won’t miss him that much. He was an ACC (the platitudes Packer heaped on anterior North Carolina instructor Dean Smith would circle the globe nearby 30,000 times), didn’t do his schoolwork on leagues outside the “Big Six,” certainly not met a point he couldn’t quid into the ground for 20 minutes and commonly to conquer on a bit of minutiae that had extremely no bearing on the game. His various corporate also led to some conflicts of note, but that’s not certainly relevant to this request.

Actually, I will miss him a bit during the NCAA tourney. He no way was afraid to express his attitude, and given his background and knowledge of the game, you at least had to hang on. Thus, not Packer around during the to make you shake your head is going to be incomprehensible to get used to. As for his auxiliary, Kellogg is a nice guy, but he’s also as as they come. Will he ever say anything controversial or supposed-provoking?

While Packer had a long, unforgettable run as an analyst, it was time for him to go. And love him or hate him, possibly the best quota of Packer’s control is that it is very difficult to make believe the same wideness of news coverage when his spare is replaced.

Posted on July 21st, 2008 by admin
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