Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Michael Kay Does a Great Interview - Mike Tirico Does Not

ESPN's Bill Parcells: Super Bowl Confidential provided a deep perspective on coaching Super Bowl teams. SU alum Mike Tirico does a poor job, posing questions with irrelevant lead-ins and providing dumbed-down recaps of the eloquent answers just provided by Parcells.

The sequencing of the questions and supporting film clips is disjointed but Parcells' answers to every question are enlightening, engaging, and delivered by a coach who has lived those answers multiple times.

There might not be a better pre-game show for the remainder of the week.

During commercials I watched play in the first half of the UCONN - Georgetown game. Dick Vitale doing any game explains why remotes have mute buttons. Dick Vitale doing a Big East game explains nothing.

The game wasn't much to watch either. UCONN set a new, season-low scoring mark in a 58 - 44 loss.

There are two interesting DIII matchups this weekend. Nazareth hosts Ithaca in Rochester Friday night at 8 in the Empire 8. Nazareth is tied for first in the conference with Hartwick and Stevens, all at 7 - 2. Ithaca, 5 - 4 in conference play, will be looking for their second win of the season over Naz and a spot at the crowded head of the E8 standings.

On Saturday in the SUNYAC Oswego travels to Cortland in a rematch of the teams occupying the top two spots in the conference. Oswego comes in at 12 - 0 in the conference, 16 - 3 overall. Cortland is 9 - 3 and 14 - 5 respectively. Oswego squeeked out a 69 - 67 win at home on 1/21.

In the Big East, SU Big Baby (and not in any Glen Davis kind of way) Fab Melo has been reinstated and is eligible to play at St. Johns at noon, Saturday.

National Get A Life Day, aka National Letter of Intent signing day is over! People of the world, relax...whether your team got all or none of they guys they were after. Remember, statistically, 75% of those signing letters today will be spending their time with Chad at the dry cleaners in cognito. (You had to be there.)

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