[Husker] Re: NU v MU (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> You must have been watching a different broadcast. Turico and Herbstriet are 
> probably the most insightful college broadcasters that  ESPN employs. The 
> way that they continued to point out the deficiencies of the officials, 
> question why Nebraska continually abandoned the run in stretches, and 
> brought insightful analysis made the game enjoyable to watch.

However, they also spent FAR TOO MUCH TIME in the first half talking 
about tomorrow's Oklahoma game, and they got sidetracked too many times 
in the 2nd half.

Though I agree that this is one of ESPN's better booth teams, this was 
not their best performance of the season.  Not even close.  Their best
moment was on the last play of the game.

BTW, based on the end zone view, I'd have to say that this game was
a total team effort, especially on that last play.  :-)

The sideline reporter was beyond terrible, her reports were meaningless,
her recounting of the 'interviews' with the coaches at halftime seemed 
trite.  The stats team seemed out to prove points with little relationship 
to this or any other game.  Who gives a fig about how many NFL quarterbacks 
have come out of Michigan?  The camera crew was faked out more times than 
I cared to count.  Thankfully they had enough cameras that they usually
had the play from other angles.

If I was a Boise State or BC fan, I'd probably be pretty pissed that
they dropped coverage at a time when that game was still up for grabs.
(Couldn't they have had the game in a window in one corner of the screen?)

Lloyd Carr's postgame comments are going to be interesting reading, I'll
have to watch the Fox channels on cable to see when his coaches show
airs, he might have calmed down a bit by then.  Is he now on the bubble
at Michigan?  (Alternatively, is Michigan dumb enough to fire him?)
--
Mike Nolan