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DT Luke Fickell (HC Wisconsin Badgers)

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DaBears;1939703; said:
The analyst they had on with Erin Andrews covering the press conference. I had to look him up. He has called games on ABC/ESPN and he played at Washington in the late 80s and early 90s. Given the presence of Erin Andrews, I didn't pay much attention to him, then he started talking and I switched to Big Ten Network. I should ding myself for watching ESPiN when they are covering Ohio State, trying to find someone competent and neutral on ESPiN on Ohio State is harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
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I remember he was the commentator when we played NC State in C-Bus. He was as close to openly rooting for NC State to win as I have ever seen a major network announcer*. He comes off as a know-it-all and I believe he has a strong dislike for OSU. Nothing to back that up just my distaste for him from that broadcast and other times I have heard his "analysis."

* Other than Dan "Bad Call Keith" Fouts of course......
 
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DaBears;1939703; said:
The analyst they had on with Erin Andrews covering the press conference. I had to look him up. He has called games on ABC/ESPN and he played at Washington in the late 80s and early 90s. Given the presence of Erin Andrews, I didn't pay much attention to him, then he started talking and I switched to Big Ten Network. I should ding myself for watching ESPiN when they are covering Ohio State, trying to find someone competent and neutral on ESPiN on Ohio State is harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
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I doubt Erin Andrews will be staying over night in the Blackwell hotel.
 
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NateG;1939709; said:
Try a specific needle in a pile of needles.
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If ESPN finds a pile of needles I'm going to be very disa... ah, fuck it.

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Wingate1217;1939712; said:
I remember he was the commentator when we played NC State in C-Bus. He was as close to openly rooting for NC State to win as I have ever seen a major network announcer*. He comes off as a know-it-all and I believe he has a strong dislike for OSU. Nothing to back that up just my distaste for him from that broadcast and other times I have heard his "analysis."

* Other than Dan "Bad Call Keith" Fouts of course......
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In most of the games of ours that I've seen him call he's been pretty complimentary of OSU, especially Tressel.
 
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Wingate1217;1939712; said:
I remember he was the commentator when we played NC State in C-Bus. He was as close to openly rooting for NC State to win as I have ever seen a major network announcer*. He comes off as a know-it-all and I believe he has a strong dislike for OSU. Nothing to back that up just my distaste for him from that broadcast and other times I have heard his "analysis."

* Other than Dan "Bad Call Keith" Fouts of course......
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He also did the OSU vs UW game in 2007 and was very complimentary.

Just depends on the scriptwriters I guess.
 
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Back to Fickell, given the censored debacle that the last few press conferences have been, I thought this was one went really well. To draw a politics connection, you need to be able to stay on message, and Fickell did just that the entire time. Also, this press conference gave me as a fan something to be optimistic about and that is greatly appreciated.
 
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Wingate1217;1939712; said:
I remember he was the commentator when we played NC State in C-Bus. He was as close to openly rooting for NC State to win as I have ever seen a major network announcer*. He comes off as a know-it-all and I believe he has a strong dislike for OSU. Nothing to back that up just my distaste for him from that broadcast and other times I have heard his "analysis."

* Other than Dan "Bad Call Keith" Fouts of course......
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Yeah, he called that game, and it's always the first thing I think of when I hear his name or see his face - it was really a sad performance by a biased commentator.

The best thing I can say is that he hasn't managed to sink that low since then.
 
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DaBears said:
The analyst they had on with Erin Andrews covering the press conference. I had to look him up. He has called games on ABC/ESPN and he played at Washington in the late 80s and early 90s. Given the presence of Erin Andrews, I didn't pay much attention to him, then he started talking and I switched to Big Ten Network. I should ding myself for watching ESPiN when they are covering Ohio State, trying to find someone competent and neutral on ESPiN on Ohio State is harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
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He did the '03 NC State 3OT game. I'd tell you to watch/listen to that game again, but I don't hate you.

edit: I see that's already been covered :lol:
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1939718; said:
In most of the games of ours that I've seen him call he's been pretty complimentary of OSU, especially Tressel.
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This

But he was off his game today. Pretty naive to think that Luke would lay out a long term plan. And second, Luke doesn't owe him or ESPin anything about what his plans with HIS team are.

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