Play by Play Guy Did Good Job

[SoCal_Pony]

Let’s see if my math is accurate....

This is a program that averages 7,500 fans per home game.

That translates to at most 750 non-SMU fans per home game.

That translates to at most 10 non-SMU fans per radio broadcast.

Shame on Craig Swann for being such a non-professional homer to those 10 non-SMU followers of our radio broadcast.

On behalf of the other 1,000 radio listeners who happen to be life-long die hard SMU fans…..THANK YOU CRAIG SWAIN…ALWAYS ENJOYED YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR OUR SCHOOL

[MrMustang1965]

That is absolute bullshift. He was horrible!

Wow.

[PK]

Let’s see if my math is accurate....

This is a program that averages 7,500 fans per home game.

That translates to at most 750 non-SMU fans per home game.

That translates to at most 10 non-SMU fans per radio broadcast.

Shame on Craig Swann for being such a non-professional homer to those 10 non-SMU followers of our radio broadcast.

On behalf of the other 1,000 radio listeners who happen to be life-long die hard SMU fans…..THANK YOU CRAIG SWAIN…ALWAYS ENJOYED YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR OUR SCHOOL

Right you are SoCal...it's the Mustang radio network...not ESPN. Swannie was there to add color to the broadcast not as an analyist and he did a great job of it. He will always be remembered as long as this is available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nKFDCD8WK4

[mr. pony]

Rich and Hampton made a great team. Thumbs up.

[George S. Patton]

The best thing about this discussion is that we are talking about Swann past tense! Here's to a better and brighter future of Mustang radio.

[CalallenStang]

The best thing about this discussion is that we are talking about Swann past tense!

General, everyone on this board is aware of your position re: Swann. You do not have to keep repeating it ad nauseum.

[PonySoprano]

Colonel,
You are really missing the boat on Swann. He never aspired to be a professional broadcaster, he just saw an oppotunity to give back to the school where he was a team captain and an all SWC player. He was not as eloquent as Bob Griese, but his love for the game of football and his passion for the Mustangs came through on every broadcast.

Was he a homer? Hell yes he was. But look across the country and there are plenty of homers out there. Dave South at A$M, Craig Way for the horns, Brian Jensen for Tech. Yes, he was very Ron Santo-esque in the booth, but a radio broadcast needs to be entertaining, and it always was with Swann.

I just don't get way you direct so much hatred towards someone who has given so much to the program during a time when there was no reason to give.

[ThadFilms]

Colonel,
You are really missing the boat on Swann. He never aspired to be a professional broadcaster, he just saw an oppotunity to give back to the school where he was a team captain and an all SWC player. He was not as eloquent as Bob Griese, but his love for the game of football and his passion for the Mustangs came through on every broadcast.

Was he a homer? Hell yes he was. But look across the country and there are plenty of homers out there. Dave South at A$M, Craig Way for the horns, Brian Jensen for Tech. Yes, he was very Ron Santo-esque in the booth, but a radio broadcast needs to be entertaining, and it always was with Swann.

I just don't get way you direct so much hatred towards someone who has given so much to the program during a time when there was no reason to give.

Agreed. Fully. It actually hurts me to read Patton's post on this subject.

[MrMustang1965]

I just don't get way you direct so much hatred towards someone who has given so much to the program during a time when there was no reason to give.

GSP isn't the only one guilty of this.

[George S. Patton]

As I have stated before, I have never said that I hated Swann personally nor did I criticize his loyalty and love of the school.

But I firmly believed that when you are broadcasting your team, there is some professionalism that needs to be followed and the delivery needs to be delivered. That's where Swann came up woefully short for me. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. Swann is probably a great guy but was lousy in the booth.

I thought his He-Haw antics in the booth -- pounding on the counter, screaming every game that the referees were giving us the short end and consistently talking over Rich as Rich was describing the action -- were completely unacceptable.

And broadcasters like Swann and Ron Santo and the like are beloved but not respected for the quality they to the broadcast.

With any broadcaster, it's fine to get excited about your team or disappointed over a play or sequence. But returning to normalcy and giving your listeners some insight to the game and what's happening is an important element -- I don't believe Swann delivered that.

Great. Swann loved SMU. So do I. But you don't have to act like a numbnuts in the broadcast to get there. Had Swann really improved over those categories, then my opinion would have swayed. But I don't think he did and if he did then it was mild.

I wish him well with his family. But finally, we have a broadcast crew that can get you excited but also inform for the first time in quite some time.

I may be the only one board who believes this. And that's fine. I'm not concerned about that. In the long run, we're better off without Swann.

[George S. Patton]

I have talked to several A&M fans who think Dave South stinks. With Way, he gets excited for Texas. But listen to him. That's delivering the game from the Texas point of view -- and he learned that from Brad Sham.

[MrMustang1965]

I have talked to several A&M fans who think Dave South stinks. With Way, he gets excited for Texas. But listen to him. That's delivering the game from the Texas point of view -- and he learned that from Brad Sham.

The day that I listen to a U.T. football game is when Hell freezes over. Except if they're playing S.M.U. again.

[Stallion]

I miss Frank Fallon-true greatness in his prime. I still remember driving home from the Cotton Bowl and listening to him describe the 4th Q of the Miracle on the Brazos-the greatest moment in Baylor Football History. You can be a professional announcer with a positive voice for the program without being a homer and complaining in each and every game that the referrees are screwing the home team. Fallon had what most guys today don't-he could "paint a picture" and describe the excitement and action without screaming and yelling. Radio is a blank canvass-yelling and screaming doesn't paint the picture of the action. And Craig Way is no Dave South-the all time Hall of Fame Homer.

[that's great raplh]

you know nothing

Whatever dude! I certainly know a helluva lot more about what broadcasts than you ever will. CRAIG SWANN SUCKED!

i sincerely doubt that

i am a typhoon

you are a buffoon

[CalallenStang]

Speaking of Dave South, I was listening to the Aggie broadcast a few years ago when Baylor beat A&M on a two-point conversion in overtime. This was Dave South's call on the two-point conversion

"Back to pass. Throws."
(minute and a half of silence from South; crowd cheering in background)
"Well, good for them."