Criticizing the broadcasters: Brent Musburger upsets Texans
Is there a SEC state that takes its geography more seriously than Texas?
Perhaps not, given the criticism veteran play-by-play man Brent Musburger received during his call of the Texas A&M win against Mississippi State in Week 5.
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While setting the scene during the Aggies’ 30-17 win on the SEC Network, the 76-year-old referred to College Station as being located in “east Texas”, and it really got under the skin of some of the Texas A&M faithful:
According to Brent Musburger, Kyle Field is still under construction and College Station is in East Texas. #12thMan
— Ryan Campbell (@RCCampbell52) October 4, 2015
Brent Musburger has no idea what East Texas is, apparently — Bailey Rogers (@BRogers789) October 4, 2015
Did Brent Musburger really just say College Station was in East Texas? — Baylor (@BaylorHudson) October 4, 2015
Is College Station considered to be in East Texas? You have me questioning things Brent Musburger? ❔ — watching… http://t.co/HH2GGMl3m3 — Craig Rhodes (@dcraigrhodes) October 4, 2015
Though College Station is not in the area typically defined as East Texas, I will give Musburger this much credit: College Station is, indeed, closer to the eastern border of Texas than it is the western border. Perhaps we should make the state of Texas shoulder some of the blame for this blunder? The state may be too big for a non-native to properly assign geographic characteristics to a place like College Station.
Gary and Verne: The weekly installment
We can’t do an article about criticizing the broadcasters without highlighting everyone’s favorite SEC broadcasting duo to criticize. The SEC on CBS crew covered Alabama’s rain-soaked win at Georgia in Week 5, and here were some of the highlights of the fan complaints about Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson: Just when you think it’s going to be a compliment:
Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson have a rare skill set that allows them to make college football genuinely difficult to watch #BAMAvsUGA — Taylor Rhodes (@NotTaylorRhodes) October 3, 2015
Hey, at least there once was a St. Louis Cardinals football team:
Oh dear God. “St. Louis Cardinals,” Gary Danielson just said. Multiple times. He then corrected himself with “Rams.” Put this thing to bed. — JennaLaineBucs (@JennaLaineBucs) October 3, 2015
I don’t even know what this means:
Gary Danielson is basically the Bea Arthur of college football at this point. — Bandit (@banditref) October 3, 2015
Ouch:
Listening to Gary Danielson makes me want to jab my eyes out with a spoon — Aaron Snyder (@aaronsnyder22) October 3, 2015
This is mean, but the “RMFT” hashtag makes it a classic:
Every time Gary Danielson opens his mouth, he loses brain cells. #RMFT — Susan (@slbro) October 3, 2015
And we’ll leave you with this one:
@VerneLundquist_ has had too much to drink. He was suiting up trying take a few snaps with Bama in the 4th quarter pic.twitter.com/qn6l0RwfMf — Kevin McAdams (@KevinMcadams) October 4, 2015
Well to be fair, Deloss Dodds, then the AD for the crowd in Austin, did say that Texas A&M’s recruiting would be limited to “a sliver of East Texas.” So, understandable that non-Texans would take that as a reference point.
I’m not sure that was him taking it as reference point, so much as him being geographically ignorant….
We are located in an odd spot to begin with.
We’re not completely in East Texas, Gulf Coastal Region, and sure as hell not in Central Texas (there’s an awful college in that area)….
More like East-Central.
I thought Fort Worth was where the West begins, and Dallas was where the East peters-out. I heard that from a Texan, by the way. But, ultimately, WGAF?
Apparently, some Texans. Not this one btw. I’m happy they figured out A&M is in College Station. Everything after that is gravy.
Brent Musberger upsets me every time I see him.
I don’t think Verne was trying to suit up for Bama. I think he’s trying to suit up for UGA. Let’s be real it’s not like he would’ve hurt UGAs team Heck we might have had 1/2 a tackle and 5 yards rushing.
Geographically, it is very clearly East Texas. Sure, Verne is an idiot, but y’all making way too big a deal of this.
It is certainly NOT West Texas – it is closer to east than west. It is Central Texas, south of the hill country and The University.
LSU gets a lot of recruits from East Texas, which we think of as the I-45 corridor: Dallas, Houston, and anything East of I-45. College Station is West of that line. East Texas is heavily forested. Once you get past Houston or Dallas, it’s drier with less vegetation. Maybe the topography is why A&M doesn’t consider itself part of East Texas.
How can we get Gary Dan. banned from college football? He sounds like a squeaky toy from toy story trying to jump on a bandwagon that left the station last year. Verne is like Ed McMahn with more drain bamage. I hate it when they cheer for the most popular team but then I think omg what if they cheer for my team sometime in the future?, will I then be forced to hate my own team ever after.
Obviously CBS doesn’t have an SEC bias. They hate the SEC, that’s why they keep those way past and never were prime commentators on the telecast. Seriously, never keep the volume on.
there are very few “nevers” as important as this.