I rarely plan my Saturdays around an ND game unless it is a big one, so I have frequently listened to the radio broadcast. While I always knew what direction (right or left on my radio) ND was going, I never knew the score. This clown could go 15- 20 minutes without mentioning either the score or even how much ND was up or down. Sometimes I think he didn't realize he was doing a radio broadcast.
There would usually be long pauses during plays...followed by an incoherent explanation of what just happened.
It sounded like a high school radio show.
Networks often don't give out scores because it forces audiences to linger awhile. TV's been doing that for quite some time.
It is silly to think that the ND radio network is telling Cirqui not to tell the score so people keep listening. Not sure where you came up with that concept. I listen to Green Bay football on the radio whenever they are not on TV ( I live in Chicago) and the score is noted regularly, I would guess every 7-8 minutes. It is more subtle than "GB 14, Tenn 7," but that is because the GB radio announcers know what they are doing. And apparently whatever network they are on hasn't told them about your notion they aren't supposed to tell people the score to keep them tuned in.
Criqui forgets that he is doing radio, not TV. His play-by-play is just atrocious, worse than my local high school announcers.
If you think that there isn't an entire production team, including producers, directors and support stafff involved in what you're seeing/hearing, then you're beyond help. Nothing goes on without majoring vetting and oversight. Do you really believe that any announcer wouldn't be told to hit the score if they hadn't mentioned it? If what you're claiming is true, then it would be a gaffe involving quite a number of people. If it was continuous, then what you're experiencing is deliberate, not an oversight...,
I'm not trying to pick a fight with you but from the made up statement, 'announcers are told not to tell the score to hold the audience' to the assumption there is this big professional production team behind ND's radio broadcast, you don't have clue what you are talking about. I doubt you have ever listened to the radio broadcast, assume way too much about the South Bend/ND media market nor understand the rampant cronyism( not atypical for private universities) that exists around Notre Dame. It isn't about competence, it is about who you know. Keep in mind that ND fired Tony Roberts who was one of the best radio announcers around because in their view, he wasn't enough a homer.
ND's radio broadcast is produced out of South Bend and there isn't a hoard of professionals behind it. If ever watched WNDU, you'd understand. There is a producer and maybe an associate producer. There isn't a cast of thousands behind the scenes and a good chunk of whatever staff there are students or local hanger-oners. It is a small media market with local staff and standards. These are not high level professionals. I don't say that to be mean as opposed to the fact it is small market media with small market budgets. You don't find high caliber media types flocking to South Bend to get air time. There isn't a lot of money here and the budgets and broadcast reflect it. That isn't a complaint just an acceptance of what the reality is.
While I don't worry about excellence I do expect competence. As I have simply stated, Criqui is a bad radio announcer. Personally, I think he is just a tv guy who has never made the transition to understanding radio. He didn't get his job for his excellence as opposed to his long affiliations with ND (typical ND cronyism) and he probably loves it and comes cheap. Criqui is palatable to high level ND types which is what really matters. He rarely relates down and distance ( a key to radio football broadcasting) three plays can be run and all of a sudden it is 1st and 10 (or 4th and 3) and you have no idea what happened, who ran the ball (which he frequently gets wrong), who caught the pass, in what direction., etc, etc. Criqui has been bad for years, the few real media professionals around the program know it but it isn't important enough (i.e., there isn't much money in it) to exert an effort to worry about it. With the new media partner involved, it is a good time to change.
A radio/tv audience is constantly changing. The people who were listening/watching ten minutes before may be gone, and a whole new set of people have come on. The audience that would have sat through an entire broadcast because there was nothing else to watch/ listen to went away by at least the advent of multiple channel media. Currently, people skim from game to game, not setting on one channel for any length of time.
Nevertheless, advertisers expect their content to be delivered. If a new audience has taken the place of the old audience that had ingested those commercials, then the media outlet must do something to keep them on line long enough to deliver the advertiser's message. People are going to tune in to get the score, and move on to another game. I feel the content producers delay that information long enough, then it will allow a guy like Criqui to say a short ion air commercial, or any other paid content, prior to that audience leaving. That's why you don't get the scores as quickly as you'd like, because advertisers/outlet know the audience fluidity, and do what they can to get those to delay long enough to deliver the advertising.
ND is a national brand that advertisers pay a premium to utilize. ANY broadcaster, advertiser, team knows that if advertising isn't delivered, the brand loses value, and the ad revenue goes down. I would suggest listening not to the play by play as much as how advertising is delivered through the course of the game. You'll notice the same thing I saw years ago, do what you can to keep the audience listening in a multiple channel sports delivery world.
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Or one of ND's other opponents -- Certainly wouldn't want an ND alum for these positions.
or East Lansing.
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