I love me some Frachilla. I could see other fanbases not liking him when they play us, though. He seems to slant ISU.
Fraschilla/Bilas
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Bilas is a definite shill for the ACC. He only likes blue bloods. All other schools are the proverbial mosquito on a camping trip for him.
He played and coached at Duke so I get it. All the old Duke players aren't shy about it either. I think he's ok but he does come of high and mighty.
I think Fran just really likes basketball and it comes through.
I think Fran just really likes basketball and that passion comes through. He'd probably have a decent amount of energy calling one of your son's youth games.
Why do you think Duke gets the ESPN time slots? Bias or because they are one of the three biggest brands in college basketball. It’s a business to make money and Duke brings eyeballs in. Just like Alabama football. I seriously wonder how people don’t understand this and cry bias or favoritism all the time.
Fran takes the time to get up close and get to know everything he can about the teams prior to a game. Bilas doesn't. It shows. And I'm not saying Bilas is bad at it, he isn't. He just doesn't connect as well and what he provides is pretty standard, IMO.
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I wonder if it's a cyclic thing. Alabama and Duke saw extensive airtime (compared to others in their respective focused sports) in the early days when airtime and channels were limited. They gained recruits from that, allowing them to choose the best players available, enabling them to build better teams and continue to win.
Basically, my question - did blue bloods feed the tv money machine, or did tv create the blue bloods? Or is it maybe a mixture of both?
I would take Robbie Hummel over everybody.
It's definitely both. But once the money machine is invested in brands they want to maintain them. It's a long term job and very expensive to have to promote and build up new ones if the regular ones aren't getting it done.
No I get that, the problem is Duke doesn’t draw anymore viewers than anyone else when given the ESPN time slot. If they were always pulling in big ratings, it wouldn’t be a problem. They just don’t do better than anyone else who gets put on ESPN at 7 o’clock at night.
You just described King McClure to a T.
Bilas is knowledgeable but he comes off a little arrogant and feel like his Duke/ACC bias seeps in a lot
So are you saying you like King McClure?
Do announcers impact the way you enjoy a game? I guess I don’t really notice them too much outside of a BIG game and you then you can tell it’s a big game announcer but on a nightly basis I barely pay attention to who is calling an ISU game but that could just be me.
Well he is around a lot of the teams at practice so I am sure he picks up on what they call certain plays.
He's growing on me...he's not quite as anti anyone who gave the bears fits anymore.
Bad or biased announcers can absolutely impact how I enjoy the game. I get particularly annoyed when they are more interested in their conversation than they are about actually CALLING the game...like calls by the refs, or who fouled whom in the middle of a rebounding scrum. I usually keep ESPN box score open so I can figure it out for myself when they can't be bothered to clarify.
Grew up in a gated community and went to the best high school in the LA area and then went to Duke and Duke Law. It's somehow amazing he's not more arrogant than he is.