Sexist!

never heard of her

I've been on the "Beth Mowins isn't very good" bandwagon for about a decade. Search function.

She'd always get the bad game....Illinois...so I've heard her plenty. She isn't very good.

But now I can't say that because I'm a sexist. I wish she was better at her job so I would no longer be a sexist.

I don't get how this is sexist. Sports fans like us rip on male announcers all the time. Young old, black white, man woman. If they are bad at thier job or they say something funny, people are going to pick up on it.

I don't get how this is sexist. Sports fans like us rip on male announcers all the time. Young old, black white, man woman. If they are bad at thier job or they say something funny, people are going to pick up on it.

“It’s a Persa party in Champaign today!”

I've been on the "Beth Mowins isn't very good" bandwagon for about a decade. Search function.

She'd always get the bad game....Illinois...so I've heard her plenty. She isn't very good.

But now I can't say that because I'm a sexist. I wish she was better at her job so I would no longer be a sexist.

The problem is that all female announcers get ripped as soon as they step out of being the 30 second sideline reporter role.

Does Illinois actually have a football team? Real uniforms and everything?

I don't think that's always true. Doris Burke gets more praise than most of her male counterparts. But she actually knows what she is talking about. Beth Mowins doesn't. It was very apparent that Mowins was reading from a script/sheet the entire time and it sounded very awkward. Female broadcasters are fine but I think intense criticism is predictable when they put someone in there that doesn't sound like a professional broadcaster and also doesn't know the sport being played.

Dismissing any criticism of Mowins seems to be making the Dicaro-esque argument that prominent jobs should just be handed to ridiculously unqualified people based on their gender instead of merit.

.As for Mowins, my opinion is that she was solid but not spectacular for the ESPN2 Noon football game which has a low production value anyways.

If she weren't stuck in places like Champaign, Ames or Columbia doing college games from Thursday through Saturday and routinely did pro games I'd give her a harder time for blandly doing a pro game no one really looked forward to

If she weren't stuck in places like Champaign, Ames or Columbia doing college games from Thursday through Saturday and routinely did pro games I'd give her a harder time for blandly doing a pro game no one really looked forward to or gave a damn about outside their fans.

She's just a professional game manager type imo.

It was the first MNF game of the season, and fantasy football is a multi billion dollar industry. I think it's safe to assume there were millions of people who aren't Lions or Jets fans who were interested in that game.