Dick Vitale's Bromance with Duke

[Da Coach]

That's what a writer for Rivals/Yahoo sports is calling it. He refers to Dick Vitale doing the ESPN broadcast of the recent Duke-Wake Forest game--

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Announcer-Bromance-Dick-Vitale-and-Duke;_ylt=AkFuGgyhQ_FVjDNJr0Qr9GPevbYF?urn=ncaab,137597

[houstontxbrave]

How is Vitale's man crush on the Duke coach, program and the university any different then the flat out preference that ESPN allows Phelps to show towards Notre Dame. The live set last week from Notre Dame and the whole show Phelps put on with the Gold/green tie, his gushing about how amazing/great everything and everything to do with ND was disgusting.

Like I said about Gottlieb he is about the only one at ESPN who will call it as it is, Vitale, Phelps and Bilas show a complete and utter bias towards who they like and a distain or in Phelps case no knowledge of anything that either is not who he loves to outwardly cheer for or anything outside of BCS. For the most part their entire College basketball coverage is so slanted and bias its really only worth watching the telecasts and muting the sounds.

And as Asian has pointed out this shame of a bracketbuster is nothing but a way for ESPN to manipulate the non BCS schools and mold who they do and not want in the NCAA tourney.

[Bravesfan]

And as Asian has pointed out this shame of a bracketbuster is nothing but a way for ESPN to manipulate the non BCS schools and mold who they do and not want in the NCAA tourney.

Just this reason alone is reason enough for the Valley not to participate in the Bracketbusters anymore.

[Bravesfan]

That's what a writer for Rivals/Yahoo sports is calling it. He refers to Dick Vitale doing the ESPN broadcast of the recent Duke-Wake Forest game--
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketb...n=ncaab,137597

That article was spot on! And of course some of the "Cameron Crazies" are posting on that site claiming how insulting that writer was.

Why am I not surprised?

[bigdaddystuck]

For as long as I can remember, Vitale has been pro-Duke and I don't have a problem with it. He gushes over them, thinks they do little wrong, talks them up over other teams. I don't see the problem with it. Snell does the same thing, granted on a much smaller stage, with BU. Don't see a problem with it. If I don't like hearing it, then I turn the volume down.

[lefty]

For as long as I can remember, Vitale has been pro-Duke and I don't have a problem with it. He gushes over them, thinks they do little wrong, talks them up over other teams. I don't see the problem with it. Snell does the same thing, granted on a much smaller stage, with BU. Don't see a problem with it. If I don't like hearing it, then I turn the volume down.

I agree with you. I don't mind many of these....with the exception of Walton of course. I like Dickie V's enthusiasm and quite frankly talks about positives when he talks about other teams and coaches

[Bravesfan]

For as long as I can remember, Vitale has been pro-Duke and I don't have a problem with it. He gushes over them, thinks they do little wrong, talks them up over other teams. I don't see the problem with it. Snell does the same thing, granted on a much smaller stage, with BU. Don't see a problem with it. If I don't like hearing it, then I turn the volume down.

Oh, I like Dick Vitale. He's a genuinely nice guy, and I was lucky to see him when he spoke on campus back in 1994 when I was still a Bradley student. He had kind words about Jim Molinari and the Bradley program, and he spoke a lot about his great friend Jim Valvano and his struggles with cancer, amongst other things. He has a genuine love for college, and for the game of college basketball. And he does talk up the mid-majors, whether he actually likes seeing many in the tournament or not.

My only big gripe with him is that he is a national sports announcer on a national network. When one broadcasts from different campuses, an announcer cannot be favoring one team so much over everyone else. I understand he has been like that for years and he will not change. But of course the big difference between him and Snell is that Snell announces for one particular team, while as stated above, Vitale does not. That's my only complaint about him. He needs to try to be neutral when he's on a nationwide network, that's all.