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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 897373" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I've thought about this myself. I think it is because the spread option makes it hard for the announcers to focus on particular players and what they do. In a system O you have to know why things are working or not and that requires a considerable amount of football knowledge. Many of the people who handle college games don't have ti and don't want to acquire it. It is easier to concentrate on personalities and how they perform than on how particular schemes work. That's why you can learn a lot when Roddy is doing color on games and not near as much with others. Herbstreit is the same; he always showed considerable interest in Paul's O and how it worked, as did Bob Davie. Like Roddy they knew enough football to see what was going on.</p><p></p><p>This is, I think, a hangover from regular news coverage. Many of the people who are, as the Brits correctly say, <em>newsreaders</em> don't know squat about policy or even how to ask questions about it. The kind of specialized knowledge necessary is no longer considered a requirement for being on national or local news shows and is disappearing in newspapers as well. Same thing applies to the folks who do college or pro football games. They want to reduce the games to personal performance because a) they can understand that and b) so can most of the fans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 897373, member: 265"] I've thought about this myself. I think it is because the spread option makes it hard for the announcers to focus on particular players and what they do. In a system O you have to know why things are working or not and that requires a considerable amount of football knowledge. Many of the people who handle college games don't have ti and don't want to acquire it. It is easier to concentrate on personalities and how they perform than on how particular schemes work. That's why you can learn a lot when Roddy is doing color on games and not near as much with others. Herbstreit is the same; he always showed considerable interest in Paul's O and how it worked, as did Bob Davie. Like Roddy they knew enough football to see what was going on. This is, I think, a hangover from regular news coverage. Many of the people who are, as the Brits correctly say, [I]newsreaders[/I] don't know squat about policy or even how to ask questions about it. The kind of specialized knowledge necessary is no longer considered a requirement for being on national or local news shows and is disappearing in newspapers as well. Same thing applies to the folks who do college or pro football games. They want to reduce the games to personal performance because a) they can understand that and b) so can most of the fans. [/QUOTE]
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