OT: ESPN should STOP showing HS games...

[DoctorBombay]

...If the %&*#@ announcers don't bother to actually broadcast what we're watching.
I'm seeing the Adidas HS game (replay?) on ESPNU right now, and Biancatti (?) plus a couple of other mamalukes are discussing everything BUT the fricken game!
Its just a bunch of guys running around in uniforms w/ numbers, and every once in a while they mention a name you recognize, and you say: "Oh, yeah...THAT'S Jahlil Okafor". What?
Its ridiculous and bizarre to show this thing if the aim is to talk about something, anything, and everything else...DURING the fricken' game! Unreal.

 

[bevosu]

It does seem kind of stupid that they haven't caught on yet. They do the same thing when they show an all star game. McDonald's etc.

Why would they not think that viewers would like to know who is doing something? It's not like people who are watching are watching their college team or a conference rival where they're familiar with the players.

It's frustrating and bad TV.

 

[spo023]

It does seem kind of stupid that they haven't caught on yet. They do the same thing when they show an all star game. McDonald's etc.

Why would they not think that viewers would like to know who is doing something? It's not like people who are watching are watching their college team or a conference rival where they're familiar with the players.

It's frustrating and bad TV.

It's because the guys who announce these high school games are the recruiting analysts, not actual play by play guys or commentators. Since they have very limited training and experience, they just straight up don't know what to say and when to say it. ESPN should have normal commentators announce the game but just have the notes of the recruiting guys with them.