Comments on: RON FRANKLIN BENCHED

By: Post-Munson idle speculation « Get The Picture

Post-Munson idle speculation « Get The Picture — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:02:27 +0000

[...] for some reason, ESPN has steadily soured on him over the past few years (he’ll be calling Big XII games this year – lousy time slot), so maybe [...]

By: Brandon Lang

Brandon Lang — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:43:18 +0000

Once Adrian was gone, you knew the dream team couldn’t last forever. I will say this: I made absolutely no plans on college football Saturdays when Ron Franklin was doing games. This includes driving home from and then returning to a scout camping trip with my son. Nothing better on God’s green earth than Ron Franklin doing a Saturday night game. In contrast, I had plans last Saturday night and I do again this Saturday night.

One of Ron’s trademarks was his insistance at calling the snap of a field goal back to the holder a “pass”–which it is. He is also one of the few people associated with football that correctly knows that there is no such thing as what is commonly referred to as a lateral. There are backward passes and forward passes–no such thing as a lateral.

Before there was such a thing as the yellow line, Ron was always careful to tell us that the “line to make” was on every play. We needed that.

Mike Patrick is not a bad guy. And the much maligned Paul Maguire isn’t so bad on the college games. Is it possible that Theismann may have been the problem on those Sunday night games?

I only hope that Ron Franklin knows how much he is loved. And missed.

By: hoopinion

hoopinion — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:41:43 +0000

“I’m so glad to hear outrage from the rest of the nation over the affront to God that was the Mike Gottfried-Pam Ward broadcast of Iowa/Iowa State.
I visited Deadspin the day after, and read comment after comment asking if Pam Ward’s a lesbian and if Gottfried’s had a stroke. So it wasn’t just Iowans getting pissed off about it.”

I’m pretty sure that Gottfried did have a stroke.

I’ve never hung out with Pam Ward, so I couldn’t speak to other issue which concerns you.

By: Ron Franklin sucks

Ron Franklin sucks — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:37:38 +0000

I feel so bad. He won’t get to kiss SEC and TEXAS ass anymore. What a shame a man who turned water into wine and drank some of it during broadcasts it going to a DIFFERENT TIME SLOT.

Oh, i thought they fired him, he is just moving to a DIFFERENT TIME SLOT. My bad.

By: Travis Swenson

Travis Swenson — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:47:06 +0000

Back when I had the stomach to watch the ESPN Saturday night game, I would’ve been crushed to hear this news. However after 5 years of watch Sherrill & Croom single-handedly (double-handedly?) drop the SEC’s stature as a conference. Now it’s just another reason my college football day ends after MSU’s 11:30 beating.

By: Paco

Paco — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:38:00 +0000

Fuck it….Give Lou Holtz play-by-play duty. That would ROCK!

not really.

By: gamecocktony

gamecocktony — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:13:36 +0000

For what its worth, I decided to send an email to ESPN Ombudsman, George Solomon.

“Dear Sir,
I am sure you are well aware that many college football fans are upset with what we perceive as a ‘demotion’ of one of the best college football announcers in the business, Mr. Ron Franklin.
I sincerely hope you will take the time to read many CFB message boards to see just how much Mr. Franklin has meant to us fans who have loyally watched ESPN’s coverage of NCAA football over the past 20 years.
Not having Mr. Franklin covering the main game on Saturday nights has undoubtedly led to viewers, such as myself, looking for other programming options when we decide what telecast to tune into.
While we fans realize that the decision on what announcers to use to broadcast certain games is more complex than those of us not in the media can ever imagine, the fans of Mr. Franklin’s class and knowledge of the college football landscape will hope that our choice not to watch ESPN/ABC’s games can be directly attributed to what we consider a slap in the face to THE voice of big-time CFB.”

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:11:36 +0000

ESPN is a mere shell of it’s former self…this is what happens when you have a bunch of corporate Disney assholes pulling the levers who are more concerned with good ole boy backroom deals than the integrity of college football. I had a bad feeling that this would eventually happen when ABC/Disney bought ESPN.

CBS PLEASE HIRE RON FRANKLIN!

By: gamecocktony

gamecocktony — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:57:22 +0000

Sigh.

Was there anything, ANYTHING, better than Uncle Ron from The Plains or Rocky Top or ‘Tween the Hedges’ on a cool, autumn evening?
He always made the game feel bigger without upstaging the game itself. The consumate pro.
I always felt like if you ran into him somewhere you could buy him a bourbon drink and he’ d be happy to sit with you and tell stories about The Bear or Vince Dooley or Johnny Majors. Just a class act.

“Give ‘em five, GIVE EM TEN! Another (insert your favorite school here) first down.”

By: The Stos

The Stos — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:56:08 +0000

If sideline reporters want to be taken more seriously, they should stop doing ridiculous bits about how the back up QBs uncle was the first man in his county to tie 3 goats together and ride them into the next county.
Here’s a thought, get somebody down there that knows football. Our “Good Buddy” and Swanny do a pretty good job.

By: bsa

bsa — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:32:41 +0000

How sad and foolish. What with Bob Davie and Tony Kornheiser, it is becoming almost impossible to watch ESPN football coverage…

By: father figure

father figure — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:09:20 +0000

“ESPN:2000s :: MTV:1990s”

Ron Franklin :: Ricky Ractman?

By: NewAZTiger

NewAZTiger — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:47:16 +0000

ESPN:2000s :: MTV:1990s

It’s all so very clear.

By: Beergut

Beergut — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:19:57 +0000

Ron Franklin will probably end up doing Big 12 games again, so he can suck up to texas. He used to do radio broadcasting for the t-sips.
If you think Franklin is something special, you’ve obviously never heard him do a Big 12 game involving texas, b/c he is anything but objective (although his blowup at P.J. Tucker during last season’s A&M-texas basketball game was classic).

By: father figure

father figure — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:24:46 +0000

What a disgrace. At this point, Fox should buy all college football, replace all but four plays per game with commercials (”what, four plays isn’t enough? We have to get the games under 3 hours, and cutting commercials is unAmerican, dammit!”) , add advertising to college uniforms, and have Joe Buck, Paul Maguire, and Jim Nantz do the play-by-play for every game that we’re lucky enough for Fox to allow us to see.