CBS set to replace Packer

[Dback Jon]

EXCELLENT!!

College basketball commentator Billy Packer, who has announced 34 consecutive Final Fours on network television and created a few controversies along the way, will not be returning to CBS for a 28th season, The Miami Herald has learned.

CBS has decided to replace Packer, 68, with studio analyst Clark Kellogg on its lead announcing team.

An announcement is expected Monday, but CBS representative Leslie Anne Wade confirmed the story Sunday night.

CBS believed the time was right for a change and that Kellogg deserved a chance to work with Jim Nantz on the lead team.

Packer, who had been going year to year with his contract, confirmed through a CBS official Sunday that he no longer will broadcast for the network but is pursuing other projects in basketball. Packer declined to comment further.

 

[Southpaw]

Clark Kellogg doesn't make my toes tingle, but losing Billy Packer does. Now if he will just take Dick Vitale with him they can go fishing..... forever.

 

[Dback Jon]

Clark Kellogg doesn't make my toes tingle, but losing Billy Packer does. Now if he will just take Dick Vitale with him they can go fishing..... forever.

No kidding!

 

[MigratingOsprey]

can't see how this is bad news - packer always sounded like he was broadcasting while trying to force out a BM..................

 

[Skkorpion]

There is a God.

 

[Russ Smith]

Packer was a weird one he clearly knew the game but he was so negative and his habit of finding a key point and just hammering away at it for an entire telecast just got so old. Like in the Memphis/Texas game the size difference at guard, he was dead right, it was huge in the game, but he said it like 100 times.

That and his incessant attempts to make it look like he was outcoaching the coach by saying "they need to get Keefe out of the game right now" when he could see Mbah a Moute waiting at the scorers table but knew the CBS cameras hadn't showed it yet. In fact this past year they seemed to be intentionally outing him on that more than once right after he did that they would show the guy waiting to come in so it was clear that Packer knew that when he said it.

 

[Lefty]

I was never a Packer fan. He seemed too arrogant. I like Kellogg and I also like Rafferty.

Here is a game where Clark shows how good he is. This one's for you Russ. By the way, I was at that game and it remains one of my top-3 games I have attended at McKale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-FvYME6eM&eurl=http://forum.goazcats.com/showthread.php?t=80576