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.

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I'm sorry, IB...I stopped reading after you said that Matt Rodewald claimed Ron Zook couldn't recruit.

Goddamnit...if Zook can't recruit at all, then what the hell can the worthless recruiter do?

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I have started watching a little NCAA football this year. I even watched some of the USC/Stanford game. So my knowledge is limited,but I can bet I could be better prepared then what IB described! This is going on with radio as a whole. Cheaper talent means cheaper quality SOMETIMES. I enjoy listening to Jason Goff or Matty A. I think they do a good job.

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the sports reporters are a bunch of bumbling idiots. This morning they all decided rodgers is having between a bad and terrible season. The kindest thing one said was he doesn't think rodgers is bad, but that it's inarguable he's having a bad year. They also have worse nba thoughts than danny mac and generally sound like a bunch of out of touch, old idiots

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You mean the show "the sports reporters"? I had no idea that was still on. Maybe it's not, and you meant "sports reporters" in a more general way.

If you're paid to do nothing but watch sports, how come so many people are so damn dumb? Not just "wrong" opinions or predictions (I have a million of them), but factual errors.

Here's another point: why to college football announcers not understand how the BCS works? It's been around for almost a decade. I can understand that it might be complicated to non-college football fans, but it's your job to announce college football games. And it's really not that hard; you average the USA Today poll, the Coaches poll, and the computer polls. Each one counts for a third. It's a bit harder than that (the computer polls can take nothing but SOS into account, and you toss the high and the low score, among other things) but not much. Yet every college football broadcast has the inevitable Gran'pa Simpson "how does this damn thing work" moment.

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yeah i guess it's still on. I usually fall asleep with the tv on an espn and i woke up around 830 and it was on. I agree with your point on people somehow making a living off some of the dumbest sports opinions i've ever heard. I dont pretend to be a genius when it comes to sports but i can confidently say i know more about the nba and nfl than the majority of pundits i hear daily.

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He could have gleaned that from watching one highlight and noting the uniform colors they were wearing.

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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.

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lol, right on. I was listening to this guy for about 10 minutes and promptly turned it off. He's awful. I'd rather they just give more hours to Goff, who is entertaining and not a fool.

The only defense for Rodewald on Saturday was that he was called from the bullpen when Jason Goff's voice came up lame. But even the casual fan knows more on topics 1 and 2 than he did. Nomination accepted!

Is he the same guy doing the traffic on NBC-5 on Saturday mornings? Maybe he was tired.

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You know me like that.

Perhaps Mr. Rotewald belongs to the 1% of men who have protanopia.

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Doc, I don't know if he was tired, but you are correct about Matt Rodewald doing traffic. He does that weekday mornings 4:30-7a on NBC5's local version of "The Today Show" with the Jimmy Fallon-looking Rob Elgas, the America Ferrera-looking Zoraida Sambolin and meteorologist Andy Avalos in addition to update duties at least once a week on 670 The SCORE & 670thescore.com. Rodewald's also the "Dancing Fool" at the end of that same newscast every Friday morning around 6:55a.

Take a timeout SHARK.

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OKC, is this less of a slump we're seeing and maybe more of a sophomore jinx deal?
Do you think we'll need to wait until year 3 before we see a back to prime SHARK?

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Doc asked the question if it's the same Rodewald from NBC5's morning newscast who was pressed into service Saturday night when Jason Goff's voice was very hoarse...

Just kinda gave up at the end, huh.

Oh, this made me laugh:

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Maybe in bizarro world. Elgas is nothing like Fallon and saying Sambolin looks like America Ferrera is like saying Rosie O'Donnell looks like Selma Hayek