Packer & Nance- singing a different song?

[Big Mike]

Read this:http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/spo...2?OpenDocument

[MacabreMob]

Good read Mike.

And GREAT TO SEE YOU FINALLY this year.

[MacabreMob]

By the way - I LOVE my pic of TB. The emotion he displays shows how I have been feeling for Bradley all my life - and definitely now.

AAAaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Da Coach]

Great to see these guys recognizing they were wrong and admitting it publically. It took a little too long for my liking, but I have a great deal more respect for these guys than I did.

[BU fan]

Hate to beat a daed horse, but here are a couple more stories on Packer and Nantz

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14141784.htm

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/ny-spresults204669764mar20,0,1947805.story?coll=ny-basketball-headlines

[collegehoopjunkie]

Quite to the contrary, Packer has not really changed his tune, but it sounds like Nance has to a degree.

Here is an article from an interview yesterday.

"SI.com's Julia Morrill caught up with CBS' No. 1 broadcast team of Jim Nantz and Billy Packer in Philadelphia and gave them the opportunity to clear the air after their disparaging comments about the mid-majors on Selection Sunday.

"Packer: I think the games have been fixed by the committee through the referees, and there is no question the referees have been keeping the mid-major teams in this tournament, and they want to get them through under any circumstances. And if something's not done about this, I'm quitting.

SI.com: Are you serious?

Packer: Of course not! It's a great tournament, this is what it's all about.

Nantz: Best tournament ever. And obviously, the Missouri Valley has proven us wrong, so good for them, good for [MVC commissioner] Doug Elgin. As I said on the air, this has validated what they had been crowing about all season long, and now I see why they should have their chests stuck out so proudly.

Packer: I don't know. I don't buy that at all! (laughing)

Nantz: This is what the tournament is about. One thing -- I know you want to get it right and I know this will get edited, but our question had to do with the RPI, not with the committee. That's what got lost. It came across like we were challenging Craig Littlepage and the committee. We were saying, 'Wait a minute, the Big Ten this year beat one team out of conference that was a top 10 team, and yet they're rated the No. 1 conference, how can that be? How can teams like Hofstra be ranked 31st in the country and their best nonconference win was St. John's?' We were just confused by all of that.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/julia_morrill/03/20/packer.nantz/

[Be sure to read both pages, because Billy gets really stupid on the 2nd page]

Looks like a lot of stuff confuses Billy Packer.
I still think he's a J*RK.

[chitownBUB]

I agree, Packer never admits he's wrong, and here's an article that proves it.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/ny-spbest214670468mar21,0,7390654.column?coll=ny-sports-mezz

It also recounts how Packer has a history of same even as far back as 1979 when he criticized Larry Bird & Indiana State all the way to the final game.
How dare they crash the big-boys' party??