CFB Broadcasters

ESPN has announced its booth assignments for college football coverage.  For the most part, no significant changes.  I dont think there will ever be a combo as good as Franklin-Gottfried.  Nessler and Blackledge are by far my current favorite. 

With the new assignments also came the announcement that Joe Tessitore and Matt Millen will be doing the Missouri game.  Millen was with Sean McDonough, who is one of my all time favorites,  and will be about the same with Tessitore, not good but a lot better than he was a GM.   Tessitore filled in for somebody for the LSU-Florida game two years ago and I thought he was really good.  He has been on the call for a bunch of crazy games including Baylor-TCU, Iowa State-Oklahoma State, and Baylor-Oklahoma. He had this to say about Georgia-Mizzou:

"I think we could have one of my crazy ones in Week 2," said Tessitore. "Based on the atmosphere [in Columbia, Mo.], knowing the kind of offenses on the field, I think Week 2 could be one of those classics."

Jessica Mendoza appears to be on the sideline and she does a good job with softball. 

None of this really matters other than CBS appears to be letting Verne broadcast until he dies.  There is no questioning the greatesness of his voice or past calls.  But there is a problem when he doesn't have a clue which team is on offense.  There is no doubt that CBS holds the distinction of best production, song, matchups, etc. in CFB TV. The problem is Lundquist and Danielson are equivilent to T-Roy and Snow.

In other news, Mike Patrick and Ed Cunningham are back together so thats fantastic. Spielman will ruin McDonough. Pam Ward being gone was previously known but it'll be wierd not hearing her do Purdue-Northwestern at Noon.  Beth Mowins and Joey Galloway are probably scheduled for a bunch of SEC games and Holly Rowe is still the Queen.  The Thursday night game loses James and picks up Pollack so that might be the best to come of all of this.