SAVE THE DAVES

Now there are some candidates you can get behind. Go Daves!

Like the broadcast equivalent of a greasy spoon diner. DON’T TAKE MY DAVES.

Dave Neal’s head looks like a penis tip.

See, I’d be in favor of them getting Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried back to covering SEC games.

And bring back Dave Rowe, dammit!

Neal/Archer/Rowe in the booth. Baker on the field. Period.

Houston’s @ #3…would that be a “glans”? Or maybe a “dick-head”? Doesn’t look like mine…I don’t grow hair there.

And if fonking Pam Ward is not too bad for fourth-tier ESPN games, then the Daves sure as fonk aren’t either.

Well, I hate to piss on the parade for these lottery winnings, but… am I the only one not looking forward to longer games due to more advertising? the further and more frequent interruption of the flow of games for TV timeouts? more computer imposed graphics on the field during games advertising God knows what all? More corporate sponsors for trivia questions? more stupid stuff to get sponsors to sponsor? Is it just me? Am I wrong?

Just sent e-mail to espn. Thanks for the link, Orson.

nixforsix@ 4 – This is the ESS EEE SEE. We can have it all. We can have Franklin & Gottfried AND the 3 Daves. We should be emailing ESPN and demanding no Pam Ward.

Pulling the plug on the 3 Daves is like pulling the plug on your maiden aunt in the hospital.

As long as that ESPN/CBS/SEC welfare check clears the bank, I don’t care how long the games, when they are, or who’s anchoring the coverage.

BTW, is there any doubt that USC, Ole Miss, UK and MSU are about to be the kings of Thursdays and 11am games?

Well I am for it as long as during all of this SEC fallacio I get some attention too!

email sent

Long Live the Daves!!

The Balls @ #12…that would be “fellatio”…don’t be that girl who actually “blows”.

-the Shaft

hey… did anyone see this… part of the ESPN deal

SEC schools will be allowed only one pay-per-view football game per season. Currently, there are no limits for pay-per-view games that aren’t otherwise televised.

that kinda sux – no more directional school cupcake games if you only get one PPV, your one shot will be against maybe a lower tier division opponent (like Vandy/OleMiss)

Over the years, Dave Rowe has consistently been one of the worst color announcers in all of College Football. He should fit right in at ESPN. He, Bill Curry (ret), and Bob Davie would make the “All – Time” idiot crew.

Who can forget such insightful Dave comments like “NOW THAT’S A TIGHT END!”

Viva Los Daves!

(do I smell a T-shirt idea for Swindle Industries?)

My impression of the deal, for what it is worth, is to increase the households that ESPNU appears. That is why ESPN needed the SEC, for ratings grabbing content to coerce the cable companies into carrying all of the ESPN properties. Gameplan is also an ESPN property. Now instead of the Lincoln Financial logo appearing in the corner on a game relegated to Gameplan, there will be an ESPN logo. Games may still be regional, with availability on Gameplan in non-SEC areas. That way they can televise the Big Ten in the midwest and SEC in the SE and have the opposite game on Gameplan. Which keeps guys like me who are addicted to the game, regardless of conference, buying Gameplan to see ALL of the games.

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Dave Rowe is back this year in place of Dave Baker… according to Raycom’s website.

I’m actually confused as to which Dave was initially replaced. I thought Archer was the newer Dave, but I have my Daves confused.

Maybe there is a rotation of Daves.

I like the Quatros Davos idea.

More Daves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQRmHgExV0

I always thought fallacio was when you got promised steak and a beej, and wound up settling for hamburger and an bailout after the first cough.

Careful what you wish for SEC fans. Now that ESPN has paid so much for the TV rights, it’s inevitible that there will be more Thursday night as well as Tues. and Wed. night SEC games that involve teams not named Miss. St. or Vandy!

I’m hoping for Mondays and Fridays as well.

Space, Bitches!!!

Those are the Daves I know.

#20

We demand you take that back. You can have Thursday but for God’s sake don’t take Tuesday or Friday.

Signed

Rutgers, South Florida, West Virginia, Louisville, Fresno State and Southern Miss.

I don’t even recognize those guys. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a clear picture of them. Maybe ESPN can degrade the signal of a few early games a year. Not every game, mind you, just a few. Sort of the TV version of the “throwback uni”.

#20

I take my last comment back, from a 2001 New York Times Article.

Mike Slive, the commissioner of Conference USA, said that playing on Tuesdays (and Thursdays and Fridays) ‘’gives us a tremendous opportunity to get the kind of exposure it might otherwise have taken 10 years.’’ His conference’s new deal with ESPN, reportedly worth as much as $85 million over eight years, includes the flexibility to play on Tuesdays.

Dave Neal’s face looks like it was set on fire and then put out with a golf shoe.

Sent an email to the buffoons at the WWL. They’ll probably disregard any advice from true footbaw fans, but it’s worth a try.

E-mail sent as well.

Orson, It appears that the U of MIchigan might have a problem with masterbation. Can any of your sources confirm this?
http://blogofhilarity.com/08/2008/no-you-will-not-masturbate-into-the-university-of-michigans-pipes.php

Even your worst Daves in the SEC are better than your best Daves in any other conference….

The People’s Commissariat for Glorious SEC Football Announcing should line the Daves up against a wall and perforate them like the imperialist dogs that they are.

Give us Franklin and Gottfried, like the Secretary General intended.

In a pinch, I’ll take Gary Thorne, who never fails to BRING THE NOIZE!

Email sent…. My 1st of Saturday Miller High Life won’t be the same without the Daves

Any chance the SEC/ESPN can reincarnate Adrian Karstan? He weeps suspendered tears of joy in heaven…

socalbryan

Who knew Larry Harrison was ahead of the curve in Ann Arbor? His arrest must have forced all of the beaters inside. Of course, if there were any decent looking babes up there, there would be less need for self flagellation.

The Daves need to go. The days of JP covering the SEC are over. Let’s step up it up a notch and get some real on-air talent, kay? Thanks.

Does this mean they might bring back Tim Foley as an announcer.

/definitely dating myself – TBS College Football circa 1991

At first I was happy about this news. Then I became nostalgic. Now I’m a bit morose over the whole thing. I never understood why some people to this day cling to their vinyl records. Now I know. R.I.P.

35,

If I recall correctly, Adrian Karsten offed himself a few years ago.

Also, as an SEC guy, the Daves need to go. RIP

Raycom/Jefferson Pilot: “This Dave here is dead!”

WWL: “Well cross him off then.”

“That’s just big man on big man right there!”

I actually heard the Daves were gonna be on in HD this year?

Is this right?

It seems… off.

Oh God please!

Let those goofballs go!

Away!

Forever!

Does noone realize the major problem with this — that ESPN — now has basically total control of college football?! They can essentially decide who the best teams are by showing a bunch of their games, and now the conferences are powerless to spread the wealth. If you only see games they pick and choose… and Mississippi State runs the table… whats the odds they get the love they deserve?? And now, theres noone left with a voice to say “but, undefeated!! ESS EEE SEEEE!!”

There is no longer a dissenting opinion. There is noone to take up for a Florida now, when it appears we’re doomed to watch Ohio State play USC while one of the Mousekateers clamours for an Ohio State/UM rematch!

… to quote Star Wars… “so this is how liberty dies, amidst thunderous applause…”

“Does noone realize the major problem with this — that ESPN — now has basically total control of college football?! They can essentially decide who the best teams are by showing a bunch of their games, and now the conferences are powerless to spread the wealth. If you only see games they pick and choose… and Mississippi State runs the table… whats the odds they get the love they deserve?? And now, theres noone left with a voice to say “but, undefeated!! ESS EEE SEEEE!!””

How is that any different form the way things have been ever since ESPN started televising college football? You also have to remember that CBS will still have an SEC game, too. ESPN has never cared for having better games so much as having more viewers. That being said, should there be a surprise team in the SEC, they will receive more national interest, and therefore, ESPN may elect to put the game on a higher profile station than normal.

“There is no longer a dissenting opinion. There is noone to take up for a Florida now, when it appears we’re doomed to watch Ohio State play USC while one of the Mousekateers clamours for an Ohio State/UM rematch!”

Am I the only who can’t make any sense of this?

On another note, savethedaves.com is available- the extent of my web-publishing skills is being demonstrated right now, so I won’t bite on it.

#46

Go back to the ‘06 season, when after the UM/OSU game the blabbering idiots that make up college gameday sat there and told us that "we’ve seen the two best teams in the country, and i think they deserve a rematch." This even goes beyond the eventual Florida as kicking that ensued. Anyone remember the 4TD blowout that the Rose Bowl was that year? Featuring, GASP, that great Michigan team…. The problem is that there is ZERO objectivity in what goes on at ESPN when you have former players and coaches who cant take off their Jim Tressel pajamas long enough be realistic. And now with the SEC selling out, the last big anti-ESPN establishment is gone until Fox gets off their lazy asses and cashes in with a Pac 10/Big 12 deal.

‘Go back to the ‘06 season, when after the UM/OSU game the blabbering idiots that make up college gameday sat there and told us that “we’ve seen the two best teams in the country, and i think they deserve a rematch.”’

Since the ESPN deal is w/ the SEC, they will likely receive more fluff relative to the Big 10 than in the past.