ECAC picks Grady

[Ken71]

The ECAC has announced that Grady (and Bob Ahlfeld) will anchor internet radio coverage of the PIG, the semis, and the championship game, teaming up with WEOS:  

http://hockey.ecac.org/site/Page_for_Men/Releases/Championship_to_Feature_Internet_Radio_Coverage

There's no mention of this (yet) at the WEOS site (http://www.weos.org/), so it's not clear to me if these internet broadcasts will also be radio broadcasts on the FM station (available in Ithaca).  I'd love to have an FM station carrying Cornell sports again - AM radio gets interference from way too many sources.

Ken '71

[Greg Berge]

If I'm not mistaken, he was also picked last year.

[jy3]

well who else would they have. no one is as awesome as grady, plain and simple. it is great to see him recognized for it.

[RichS]

I am biased of course but the aforementioned Bob ahlfeld does a great job on the Clarkson broadcasts.  He and Josh Bartell present a pretty balanced view of the game.

Not familiar with other ECAC radio guys from personal listening except the guy from Colgate.  He calls a good game but has no color guy so it gets a tad monotonous at times.

[Keith K]

The Clarkson broadcasts are very well done and seemed pretty balanced and professional from the few times I've listened in.  I've caught a few schools broadcasts lately (interested in playoff possibilities) and many are blatantly biased, have the excitement problem (where they're barely intelligble on every shot) or are just plain bad.  Not to mention "Alien Grady" and "Alien Pete" from the Dartmouth broadcasts last Friday...

A good selection by the ECAC.

BTW - Colgate did have a color guy last weekend although, as one Red Raider fan on USCHO pointed out, Skip tends to ignore him.

[Al DeFlorio]

The Brown guys were simply over the top Saturday night. ::help::

[Greg Berge]

The Vermont team from a few years ago was superb.  They were probably the best pan-ECAC team I've ever heard, with lots of emphasis on out of town scores and stories.  I heard they were replaced; no idea why.

The Clarkson team is very solid.

The RPI broadcasts are good -- they have problems occasionally, but they also have a very difficult building to work in, and very difficult fans to try to please.

The Harvard team seems to change every year.  They used to have students, who were just what you'd expect -- awful.  They experimented with having a coed in the box for at least one season, which would have been fine, except she was really, really bad (what if Jackie Robinson was Ivan DeJesus?)

The St. Lawrence team broadcast is pure comedy.  One member is a hack, spouting all manner of nonsensical and hateful loathing.  I've heard one of the USCHO regulars is a member of the team, and I really, really hope he's the other one, who winces whenever the idiot opens his mouth, and frequently contradicts him on the air.

[ugarte]

Well of course they picked Grady. Grady Whittenburg is legendary.

And the Brown crew was hysterical.  I get the feeling that they pace themselves drinking so that they can make it through the game, but it caught up to them when the game went into 2OT.  One of the guys called the Harvard team "dirtbags" and accused Mazzoleni of intentionally coaching dirty play.

[Al DeFlorio]

You mean...those statements might not be true? ::nut::

[twh2]

GRADY RULES!  We love you dude.  And any sloshed announcer bad mouthing Harvard in thier own back yard gets the thumbs-up from me, I loved those guys!!!!:-)

[ursusminor]

Greg, I think that the Jayson and Kurt are both great on WRPI. Furthermore, they manage to monitor the discussion on USCHO and comment there from the press box at times. The other RPI announcers are improving. I do wish that they would cut out the practice of awarding Three Stars after each game only to RPI players. This might have made sense when there was an award that went along with this at the end of the season, but now it makes as much sense as a certain Cornell cheer that mentions BU meant when CU and BU didn't play. ::rolleyes::

Hopefully, Mr. Whittenburg does his homework before the play-in game, or there will be one person who will be complaining a lot.

[melissa]

I respectfully disagree. Tuned into their broadcast of the last game of the RS and couln't stop laughing. They kept making mistakes. It took them 5 min after the fact to realize that a goal had been waved off.  ::nut::

[mha]

ursaminor wrote:

Furthermore, they manage to monitor the discussion on USCHO and comment there from the press box at times.

That would impress me a lot more if I hadn't recently shared the press box with them. There were FOUR PEOPLE (or was it five?) on their crew.

Don't get me wrong. It's great that they keep an eye on what's going on online. In fact, that's precisely what I was there for that night... to be an additional avenue of information for Grady. But other than me providing score updates and the occasional additional tidbit of trivia from the nets, Grady was flying solo. Always amazes me how he can keep his own stats, remember who all the opposing players are and what they did two years ago, AND keep track in his head of all of the other games going on that night. When I handed him a score, he was able to rattle off how the teams had gotten there. I can usually just barely keep track of who's playing whom. :-)

Anyway, the WRPI crew was certainly welcoming and friendly, unlike other radio teams I could name. They even shared their high-speed network link so I didn't have to use my cell phone dialup connection that night. Anything I can do to help next time they're in Ithaca, it's theirs.

[Beeeej]

The Vermont team from a few years ago was superb. They were probably the best pan-ECAC team I've ever heard, with lots of emphasis on out of town scores and stories. I heard they were replaced; no idea why.

I heard it was because they were caught hazing their studio engineer.

Is it Friday yet?

Beeeej

[ursusminor]

Melissa, All announcers make those kind of errors. Didn't it take a half period for a certain sainted announcer to realize that Underhill wasn't in the goal two weeks ago? ;-)