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OSU-The Cradle of Sports Announcers

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Do most of our football players major in sports announcing? Today, I saw no less than Chris Spielman, Robert Smith, Eddie George, and of course, Herbie. That seems to give OSU an advantage over other schools in the numbers of college football announcers. This is a la Miami University (Ohio), which is called the 'Cradle of Coaches'.
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This is why I approached it that way. Either way is fine with me.
 
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Do most of our football players major in sports announcing? Today, I saw no less than Chris Spielman, Robert Smith, Eddie George, and of course, Herbie. That seems to give OSU an advantage over other schools in the numbers of college football announcers. This is a la Miami University (Ohio), which is called the 'Cradle of Coaches'.
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jwinslow;1369069; said:
This is why I approached it that way. Either way is fine with me.
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Did not mean to start confusion with the inclusion of one of my favorites,
the gravelly voice of Jack "the original" Buck.
In all, Jack Buck will probably be revered as the best known of tOSU alumni in the sports journalism business. Prior to his death in 2002, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
During his career spanning 6 decades, Buck called 11 World Series games for national audiences, 17 Super Bowls, and 4 MLB all star games.
When I saw former basketball alumni included among the football players it sorta, kinda opened things up in my thinking.
 
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I was originally amazed on how many prior OSU football players were doing either play-by-play or color on the college football telecasts. As I was typing up the thread, thought about JJ on the B10 network, but completely whiffed on Clark Kellog. Oops. The original thought was that the former players would be counted. As I live on the left coast, do not hear the 'formers' do the local reporting, although STO and FSOH seem to carry some of the Buckeye stuff.

Was looking more for 'life after football' experiences, and it seems like OSU has more of it's share of these guys. But hey, as Jwin says, I'm OK with wherever this morphs. I'd be interested if Methomps or Gatorubet or any of the Texas crew have the same kind of experiences with their former players.

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger: Turn Bevo into ground round! :moo:
 
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Buckeye Analysts

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Look at all the Buckeyes calling the action

By Marc Katz
Staff Writer

Friday, January 09, 2009
Ohio State may not be so great at scoring touchdowns in BCS games these days, but have you noticed how many former Buckeyes there are broadcasting sports, especially football?
My gosh, every time you turn on the television or radio, there's Kirk Herbstreit doing analysis. And Cris Carter. And Eddie George, and Robert Smith and Chris Spielman and basketball's Clark Kellogg and Jimmy Jackson (on the Big Ten Network).
That doesn't even get into the guys doing local Ohio television and radio, such as Joe Montgomery, Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Jim Lachey, Jeff Logan, Demetrius Stanley, Ryan Miller, Bill Hosket, Ron Stokes, Rob Harley and others, or guys doing local teams elsewhere, such as Keith Byars.
That's quite a few talking heads from one school, although if you're from around here you wouldn't think anyone from Michigan could talk sensibly for more than a minute without getting their tongue caught in their ear.
Please tell me there's someone other than Desmond Howard from Michigan doing this kind of thing. Even Purdue has two broadcasting quarterbacks in Bob Griese and Gary Danielson.
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