Best broadcaster befitting the best
football conference.
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| ESPN says Brent Musburger is the lead play-by-play announcer for its new SEC Network, with former Florida quarterback Jesse Palmer |
Coach Steve Spurrier called the 48-34
win over Vanderbilt Saturday “one of the worst I have ever
had.” Most Gamecocks fans should have come to
expect games like that from South Carolina. If you had much of a
question about South Carolina winning it, you likely have not been
watching the team much lately. There was never much doubt which team
would win, even when SC went down 14-0.
The Gamecocks have a formidable offense
now. The final was expected.
A very pleasant surprise from the Vandy-SC game was veteran Brent Musburger's call in the SEC-TV Network
broadcast booth.
Musburger was as complimentary,
respectful and accurate as any broadcaster to date.
When the Gamecocks scored its first TD
- a 29-yard pass from QB Dylan Thompson to Damiere Byrd - Musburger
proclaimed: Order is being restored here in Nashville.
He knew, like we all knew, that is was
just a matter of time before the Gamecocks took over the game. And he
was right.
Knowing a team, and giving it due
credit is professional.
The booth-mate of Musburger, Jesse
Palmer, was far from the quality of Musburger. He seemed to be openly
hoping for a break for the Commodores. On a play in which Gamecock WR
Byrd, wisely reached back while he was out of bounds to kill the
ball, Palmer lamented the misfortune of Vandy, not the heads-up move
by Byrd.
That said: Palmer was far better than
the anti-Gamecock booth-work of CBS's Gary Danileson in the SC-Ga.
Game of Sept. 13.
Palmer accurately described the
Thompson-led Gamecock offense as the closest thing Spurrier has had
to his “Fun-n-Gun” scheme made famous at Florida.
While the win for the Gamecocks was
routine, not spectacular, Musburger's experience was refreshing, and
not common.
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