Preview 2008 -
Experts Roundtable
Part Four - Your College Football Guilty Pleasure
CFN is honored to once again get the thoughts and opinions on some of the hot
topics from some of the most talented, influential insiders in the
college football media, while getting to know a little bit more about
them.
Along with
Pete
Fiutak
and
Richard Cirminiello
from CFN in the
discussion are ...
- Charles Davis, NFL Network/FOX Sports
- Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com
- College Football Columnist
- Bruce Feldman,
ESPN.com -
College Football Columnist
- Steve Greenberg, The
Sporting News -
College Football Columnist
- Teddy "Mr. Media" Greenstein, Chicago Tribune - College
Football Columnist, Media Columnist
- Stewart Mandel, SI.com -
College Football Columnist
THE TOPICS
- Part
1 What aspect of
college football should you care about, but really don't?
- Part 2 Should a
two loss LSU team really have won the national title?
- Part 3 How should
college football be more like the NFL?
- Part 4
Your college football
guilty pleasure
- Part 5 How/why did you get into covering college football?
- Part 6 How/why is the BCS better than a playoff?
- Part 7 I'm not buying into ...
- Part 8
Just how bad is the Big Ten?
- Part 9 Do you have any problems with Tim Tebow winning two
Heismans?
- Part 10 Give the 2010 Rankings for: Florida State, Miami,
Michigan, Nebraska & Notre Dame
- Part 11
How much do you care about non-BCS teams?
- Part 12 When
Should Players Be Eligible for the Draft?
- Part 13 The Next Really Big Superpower Will Be ...
- Part 14 The Best & Worst Interviews
You've Ever Done
- Part 15 Quick Hitters, Part 1: Greatest Players & Greatest Games
- Part 16 Quick Hitters, Part 2: The National Champion & Heisman
Winner2007 Roundtable Discussion
- Part One
The BCS, tweaks, and
college football's biggest problem
- Part Two
On-field and
off-field changes, steroids and cheating
- Part Three
Overrated, underrated, 10 years from now, & what fans don't understand
4.
What’s your college football guilty
pleasure?
Charles Davis:
College football guilty
pleasures include, band pre-game shows/traditions (Tennessee’s “T”, Ohio
State’s “dotting the I”), team entrances (I actually compare and loosely
rate them), and finally small college rivalry games (Amherst vs.
Williams, Harvard vs. Yale, etc.)
Stewart Mandel:
It used to be the MAC
until the league nosedived into Sun Belt territory. I'm a sucker for the
Noon syndicated games, just because they're the first of the day and
often the only things on besides the Big Ten ESPN games. It's usually a
fairly crappy game like Pittsburgh-Rutgers or Florida-UAB, but I still
end up watching.
Bruce Feldman: I love Signing Day. There’s usually surprise and
disappointments and kids who botch their moments in the spotlight. And
everyone spins like crazy about how they did. Plus you usually get some
coaches taking these bizarre backhanded shots at other coaches.
Teddy
Greenstein:
I like when Charlie
Weis is interviewed at halftime on NBC with his Irish trailing by four
touchdowns.
Fiu:
Holly Rowe.
Actually, I love the late night games. During a college football
Saturday I have three TVs and two computers going to try to keep track
of everything going on and I’m writing most of the time, and unless
there’s one really big game happening, it’s almost impossible to focus
on any one of them since I sort of have to know what’s going on
everywhere. That’s why I love the Hawaii home games that come on in the
wee hours of the morning. Late night Pac 10 games on FSN are always a
blast for me.
Steve Greenberg: My alma mater, Wisconsin. But I won’t watch the
Badgers if a significantly better game is on … unless they’re playing
Michigan or Ohio State.
Dennis Dodd: I could be a smart-ass and say actual Saturday
afternoon games. (Where have they gone?) But I love walking around
campus or college town on Friday afternoon or Friday night feeling the
energy build before a big game. Downtown Columbus. State Street in Ann
Arbor. Walk On's in Baton Rouge. Anywhere in Athens, GA. You get the
picture.
There's a place in College Station called the Dixie Chicken. It's pretty
much the only place to go in town -- for everyone. It's this little juke
joint that features beer, boots and bubbas. The Aggies are so cheerful
anyway (howdy!) that it's weird to see everyone from Brent Musburger to
the drunken freshman hanging around the place.
Richard Cirminiello: I’m a sucker for the human interest stuff.
Hey, we all enjoy the Xs and Os and what happens on Saturday afternoon,
but I can’t get enough of the behind-the-scenes stories that peel the
onion on today’s college athletes. If there have been hurdles cleared,
afflictions conquered, or unique paths to success, I want to know about
it. To that point, interviewing a player’s support group, such as moms,
dads and uncles, is also one of the profession’s little pleasures.
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