BLACKLEDGE TO REPLACE DAVIE?

You just made my day. Davie ruined the ESPN games with Ron Franklin last year. Franklin, to me, is one of the best announcers all around in college football. If I had to masterbate to a college football game, Franklin would have to be on the broadcast.

Putting Davie in the booth with Franklin is like sending your wife a tape of you banging her sister. It is, was, and never will be a good idea. I’m now pumped because I will once again get to look forward to my fall Saturday nights with Ron Franklin…in a purely college football way. I swear, I’m not gay.

Am I the only one that thought Davie was halfway decent? Anyone? Bueller?

Aw, screw you guys.

Ron Franklin does indeed kick large amounts of ass. Georgia played a lot of night games on ESPN back during the 1999 season and Franklin was about the only thing that made a lot of those games tolerable for me.

Davie’s not a bad guy per se, but Franklin needs a guy who can match his expertise and Davie just ain’t it. Someone needs to tell Bob that 1) we know it’s football, so he doesn’t have to add the qualifier “football game” and “football player” 500 times a game, and 2) “athlete” has only two syllables and is therefore not pronounced “ath-a-lete.”

I loved Toddledge when I was a little girl – seriously, I was going to marry him (I was also going to marry Kenny Jackson, Harry Hamilton, and/or Scott Radecic). I’ve been angry with him for 11 years for a statement he made after the 1995 Orange Bowl – I know it’s not rational – but we’re often hurt the most by the one’s we love.

It’s nice to see him using his Speech Communications degree – I don’t love his voice – but I wish him well.

The man can’t even pronounce the names of players he recruited correctly; do you really expect him to be coherent?

Hopefully this also pushes Mike Gottfried to an earlier telecast — one before happy hour.

Good riddance to Davie… I swear the man used the phrase “you have to give (so-and-so) credit for X” about 15 times per game.

Blackledge seems decent enough… but who will CBS replace him with?

I agree with everything negative that has been written about Bob Davie, but I fear that the cure will be worse than the disease.

If Davie is being relieved of his game-calling duties, it probably means he will be spending more time doing the “former-coach-turned-studio-analyst” bit, at which he will be competent by E.S.P.N. standards, but, considering that the standard was set by Jim Donnan and Lou Holtz, the bar is pretty low and Davie will barely clear it. I never thought I would find myself longing for the clarity and insight of John Mackovic.

Todd Blackledge is no improvement in the booth, either. I will admit that, as a Georgia fan who remembers Blackledge’s playing days at Penn State, I have a deep-seated aversion to the former Nittany Lion Q.B., but I try not to hold that against him. (I found it in my heart to forgive Dan Marino, didn’t I?)

Blackledge is a dim bulb and a blank slate with as many annoying tics as Bob Davie. If he’s sitting next to Ron Franklin at the outset of a college football broadcast, you’ll become conscious of just how bad Blackledge is . . . and you might find yourself staring at the two of them and asking yourself, “Could Todd Blackledge be Ron Franklin’s illegitimate son?”

Okay, he’s not my favorite – but Blackledge is not “dim” – and I think we all know Todd’s dad.

I check this site everyday for articles like this….just classic stuff. I will not miss Davie’s constant “4.4 forty speed” label he likes to throw out every five minutes.

FYI, I believe I heard Gottfried had a mild stroke a year or so ago and that is the reason he’s so slurry and less polished.