Nothing reminds me of "The Dark Years" more than her voice. If she is announcing a PSU game, it means we aren't very good
I came to the conclusion that when he said 3rd down, it sounded exactly like 4th down. I had a double take at the scoreboard multiple times.
Hey we're new to this football thing. There will always be growing pains and bugs to be worked out. Let's all learn together.
The announcer should welcome the fans at the start of the game, give scores of other games at halftime, and bid the fans a safe trip home at the end of the game. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut. Also, no music. It's a football game, not a concert.
This tells me that these PA announcer guys did not "practice" at all. That's inexcusable to be that poorly prepared in such an environment when people are relying on that information to be provided. Whatever you thought of Dean DeVore, he was usually consistent. I'm usually a guy that has sympathy for someone new, but it disappeared after the second FG miss... I'm not comparing a FG kicker to an announcer but there is something to be said for preparation in everything you do.
Yeah, at one point they had 6 extra points for us, maybe counting the missed field goals. And I noticed they spelled Saunders name as "Caden", not Kaden. I didn't see any scores of other games but was told they were there in one corner of the scoreboard or the scrolling piece, but they were extremely small
I was told he wasn’t even announced during the coin toss, so unless you knew prior that he was doing the toss, you would have never known it.
He was announced and there was a standing ovation.
The plan was for 2 announcers this season, one for play by play and one for announcements such as pregame, halftime, etc. The play by play guy was sick and had to miss the game, so the announcement guy had to do the game. I watched on TV but from what I could make out he wasn't very good. I did like that he didn't annoyingly drag out words like the last announcer but he said little aside from a player's name and the down. I don't remember who called games in the late 90s but I liked him. I remember him being informative without being overly obnoxious and he had a good stadium voice which isn't controllable but is very important. Devore had a bad voice. I do like when the announcers state both player name and number too as it helps to reinforce the numbers since we don't have names on the jerseys.
Wasn't it Steve Jones? I thought he was filling that role before he took over for Fran Fisher (though I could be wrong).
Thanks guys,
He just plain SUCKED! Got to be someone better, just put a new student in there and it would have been better.
He’s also the hockey PA announcer at Pegula. Definitely great pipes.
Agreed. It isn't like TV. This announcer has spotters and producers. All he has to do is announce the players involved and give down and distance. Those are typically fed to him by spotters who are familiar with both teams. The trick is learning how to talk while listening. It isn't easy to do but people get good at it. Most of those instant analysis that the color commentator does are fed from a spotter and the truck who has the replay all queued up to show that camera angle. Not to take anything away from experienced former players like M-Rob and Blackledge but a lot has to be coordinated to make it come off. The stadium announcer can just shut up if they are unsure of the call because the spotters were late.
Nice to see him get a shot in front of $107k.
