Irish Boy wrote:
I heard about an hour of the Matt Rotowald experience on my way to meet some friends tonight. I got excited because he was talking college football. That excitement soon dissipated.
1.) During the update, Connor McKnight (Shark's guy!) announced the Stanford/USC score, when Rotowald asked whether the game was at Stanford or at USC. McKnight said he wasn't sure, at which point Rotowald said "it was at Stanford," and McKnight promptly agreed. You have one of the goddamned easiest jobs in America. You should know where the f'ing games are played. This goes double for McKnight, who gets paid (not much, but he is paid) to sit on his ass, watch games, then tell me the relevant details of said games. I can tell you who was at home for meaningless Sun Belt and WAC games tonight. And I work 60+ hours a week doing non-sports related activities. You mean to tell me that some db sitting in a room with TVs and a sports ticker can’t remember where one of the biggest games in the Pac-10 was played today? It’s your job, a-hole. I’ll give you a hint: the second team on the ticker is always the home team.
2.) Rotowald announced that the problem with Ron Zook is that he can't recruit, especially in Illinois, where he is getting outrecruited by Northwestern. I have many complaints about Ron Zook, but this is one of the most incoherent things I've ever heard. However, he did give Zook credit for the big Supo Sanni recruitment. But yeah, the knock on Zook is that he can’t go out and get kids to play for him. Always has been.
3.) He said that Iowa held the "tiebreaker" over Penn State for the Capital One Bowl. This is unfiltered nonsense. I actually did something I never do and text messaged the show saying that it was an embarrassing statement. He said something like "well, there are no tiebreakers sure, but sometimes teams that travel well get chosen over other teams, that's what I meant", which is exactly the opposite of the point about tiebreakers! He even discussed Northwestern and Iowa last year, which, by his logic, Northwestern held the tiebreaker! He managed to reverse himself 180 degrees and sound condescending while doing it by performing that "read the text message slowly like a dunce" technique.
4.) Charlie Weis's problem is that no one wants to play for Notre Dame anymore (yeah, recruiting has been his problem), but they shouldn't get rid of him because, seriously, what other coaches are out there. Huh? Really? Also, "kids in Chicago want to go play in Gainesville or Austin." Yes, the historic Chicago to Florida pipeline. How many kids is Urban Meyer recruiting out of Mount Carmel? Also, the Notre Dame offense “since 2005” has been one of the most prolific in Fighting Irish history. He definitely said since 2005. He really said that. Let that sink in and marinate. ND was shut out against Boston College last year. They didn’t get a first down until the last play of the third quarter against USC last year. Before that, their offense was historically bad throughout 2007.
5.) Then there was the non-college football nonsense. Lovie Smith's defense hasn't changed at all since he came here (except that it went from almost all base zone to the highest percentage of blitzes in the NFL, moron; there's no way for it to possibly change more than it did, besides from going to a 3-4); Olin Kreutz never deserved to make a pro bowl, ever, in his career; Nick Roach is “really stepping up;” “it’s easy to forget Brian Urlacher isn’t back there.”
It was one of the most embarrassing hours of sports radio I've ever listened to in my life. Being a radio guy is really not that hard. Get your damn facts right, and don't say "um" or stutter after every phrase. That’s all that being a radio host is, especially for a Saturday night schlub. If you're too lazy, stupid, or incompetent to do both those things, then get the hell off the airwaves and make way for someone that can do the job.
IB, Wow...you & I agreed on two subjects today! Rodewald is a lightweight. I too listened to his College Football talk today & it was brutal. It just begs the question once again how the decisions are made to give airtime to guys like Rodey & others.
