Screw BU, ESPNU Too!

[billhoward]

And they kept showing this. Where was the Cornell version?

Cornell version had a different finger raised.

The announcers were maybe biased but the camera guys had the cameras pointed at the nets when the puck went in.

Barry Melrose over in Bridgeport (Barry comes to town, does that affect Bridgeport property values?) was yapping about a goal scored the when the attacker bowled over the goalie. "Charging the net 101," Barry declared. The it's overruled and Barry said "clearly" GT interference. But he is always entertaining.

Re the screw BU subject line, did I hear the Miami band play the BU ditty and UMLowell fans added the finishing "Screw BU"?

[MRN one]

They did give the quotation that I hope becomes a new Lynah cheer.  One of the studio announcers during the break before the overtime said, "Michigan can't PP."  Maybe just because I have a 3 year old but that struck me as hilarious.

[RichH]

Trying to compile all the misspeaks of the broadcasts:

Everyone noticed Melrose calling Michigan State everything from "Michigan" to "Western Michigan," of course.
Apparently Denver was referred to as the Broncos at least once.
Watching the goals last night on the espn3 archive, right after Ryan scored, I think the Play-by-play guy called him "Joakim Noah," but maybe I imagined it.

[RatushnyFan]

Sean Ritchlin (color commentator) is a Michigan grad who won 2 national championships at Michigan.  I thought he was unbiased in his comments.

I would have liked to see a better replay of the De Swardt major call and more explanation.  Some of the other calls were non-penalties in my view.  My only beef is that I would have liked to hear their honest views of the penalty calls.  Overall it was fine, though.

[bas23]

The announcers weren't too bad, but how many different ways are there to pronounce D'Agostino?

[jtn27]

The announcers weren't too bad, but how many different ways are there to pronounce D'Agostino?

Everybody knows that apostrophes are pronounced as "i"s.

[CUrafter]

Sean Ritchlin (color commentator) is a Michigan grad who won 2 national championships at Michigan.  I thought he was unbiased in his comments.

I would have liked to see a better replay of the De Swardt major call and more explanation.  Some of the other calls were non-penalties in my view.  My only beef is that I would have liked to hear their honest views of the penalty calls.  Overall it was fine, though.

Reffing seemed picky, but it was at least picky both ways.  After De Swardt's ejection and the Chelios ejection in the Union game, it seems the NCAA has given the refs a zero-tolerance directive.  The commentators in the Cornell game were the typical ESPN willy-nilly-agree-with-everything.  Even though Melrose couldn't get school/player names right in the Union game, he tore the reffing apart pretty hard which was kind of nice to hear.  I'd like to hear his commentary on the reffing crews we had at Lynah this year

[KeithK]

Sean Ritchlin (color commentator) is a Michigan grad who won 2 national championships at Michigan.  I thought he was unbiased in his comments.

I agree that he did a pretty good job of being unbiased overall.  I don't think he knew as much about our guys as he did the about Michigan, which affected his call a little.  His affiliation may have leaked out a little bit in the first couple of minutes. But maybe that was just generic announcer hype that rubbed me the wrong way because of the potential for bias.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

One other thing to think about:  if the announcers are expecting Michigan to play a second night, they're probably going to do a little more homework on Michigan because they're going to need the info for more than one game.

Ok it's a rationalization,

[ugarte]

Sean Ritchlin (color commentator) is a Michigan grad who won 2 national championships at Michigan.  I thought he was unbiased in his comments.

I agree that he did a pretty good job of being unbiased overall.  I don't think he knew as much about our guys as he did the about Michigan, which affected his call a little.  His affiliation may have leaked out a little bit in the first couple of minutes. But maybe that was just generic announcer hype that rubbed me the wrong way because of the potential for bias.

Anyone calling the game would have sounded like Michigan partisan the first few minutes. Unless he sounded openly disappointed, in which case he'd have sounded like a Big Red booster, the facts were all pro-Michigan until the second "goal" was disallowed.