Two ex-Dogs join ESPN’s SEC coverage
Well, we still don’t know what the final lineup of personalities on Georgia’s football radio broadcasts will be this season, but two former Georgia players often mentioned by fans as good prospects probably won’t be among them: Matt Stinchcomb and David Pollack. But that’s because they’ve signed on with ESPN as part of its SEC Network game day TV coverage.
Stinchcomb will serve as the in-studio analyst along with host Rob Stone for the package of noon games being sold by ESPN Regional Television to over-the-air stations (including Peachtree TV in Atlanta) and Stinchcomb and Pollack both will be part of ESPNU’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage. Stinchcomb also will be part of ESPNU’s “SEC Weekly” program, with Pollack alternating with Charles Arbuckle on that show.
The noon games in the syndication package will be called by Dave Neal, the only member being held over from former syndication rights holder Raycom Sports’ dreaded Three Daves team. Neal will be joined by analyst Andre Ware and sideline reporter Cara Capuano.
Other noteworthy staffing assignments announced by ESPN and ABC include Brad Nessler calling the ESPN prime time Saturday games (usually involving the SEC), with Todd Blackledge back as analyst and restaurant crawler and Erin Andrews on the sideline. Mike Patrick moves to one of the ABC Saturday afternoon games, as does that mistress of the obvious question, Holly Rowe.
The team of Brock Huard and Eric Collins will be working the ESPNU Saturday night SEC games (generally at 7 p.m.). I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that none of the Dogs’ games wind up on ESPNU, since that’s not part of my satellite package.
Meanwhile, Raycom’s not going away completely. Its syndicated “Football Saturdays in the South” series, hosted by Tim Brando, begins its sixth season next weekend. The six one-hour episodes will be seen in Atlanta on WATL and the second one, airing at 5 p.m. July 18, features UGA legend Larry Munson.
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Otto
July 10th, 2009
10:56 am
Pollack Cnograts but please go into coaching.
austindog
July 10th, 2009
10:57 am
Maybe get an SEC guy on College Gameday. I hate that Big 10 lean.
Dawg Mess
July 10th, 2009
11:03 am
If Pollack could coach that enthusiasm, work ethic and character …. I’m just saying …….
Too Easy
July 10th, 2009
11:20 am
Bill: Why do you care what network the games are on? I thought you went to ALL the games like some of the rest of us.
Disgruntled Dawg
July 10th, 2009
11:59 am
CMR should have offered both Pollock and Stinchcomb assistant coaching jobs on defense rather than giving Willie a raise and elevating Jancek as co defensive coordinator. CMR also should give Fabris the boot, this guy had breakdowns last season in getting the right personnel on the field while arguing with Willie on the sidelines. What a wasted opportunity.
Preston
July 10th, 2009
12:01 pm
Otto, I can understand where you’re coming from but I believe that it would be impossible for Pollack to coach kids into being the kind of player he was. He ran on natural instinct and had a motor that wouldn’t stop. That’s what all coaches preach to all their players, only to get it from few. Sure he would be a great coach of technique but if being a TV personality is what makes him happy, then I’m happy for him.
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 10th, 2009
12:06 pm
Well good for those fleabags. UGAg has finally gotten a regional broadcaster for Bubba Football Conference (they’ll get canned after the year is over).
Meanwhile, GT has former players in a variety of sports dominating National Broadcasting.
Cuz
July 10th, 2009
12:07 pm
Stinchcomb and Pollack. As Bill O’Reilly would say, “Two standup guys”.
Red Clay Hound
July 10th, 2009
12:09 pm
Ok. So how do we get rid of Dr. Lou and Mark May?
Disgruntled Dawg
July 10th, 2009
12:14 pm
Red Clay Hound….. those guys need to be teamed with Keith Olbermann and we can call them the three stooges on msNBC
Jones
July 10th, 2009
12:15 pm
Georgia Tech Sucks. The only thing the graduates from Tech dominate is their mom’s basement.
UGAGRAD02
July 10th, 2009
12:17 pm
Ramble On and Saint Simons are the biggest homo’s I know. You have thugs on 790 with the Stew’s and during timeouts you have drawings for 790 the zone. It’s like a circus at a Tech game. O I forgot that at halftime you have rap concerts. Really nice thug establishment you have!!!! Maybe the GTG’s will open up for 1/2 of Outkast this season.
59bulldawg
July 10th, 2009
12:22 pm
That’s great! Can we please can Mark May and Lou Holtz! Both hate the Dawgs with a passion!
RxDawg
July 10th, 2009
12:23 pm
I’ve always liked Holly Rowe for some reason.
Bryan G.
July 10th, 2009
12:24 pm
All I wanted for Xmas was to get rid of Mike Patrick. Thank you so much for the good news. He is freaking awful.
RxDawg
July 10th, 2009
12:25 pm
Red Clay Hound, I AGREE
dantheman
July 10th, 2009
12:31 pm
Great move in keeping Dave Neal in SEC games!
dawgstephen
July 10th, 2009
12:33 pm
Congrats to Stinchcomb and Pollack. Good picks for the announcers, although Dave Neal isnt that great. Keep the dawgs off of ESPN-U.
http://www.dawgstephen.blogspot.com
Cuz
July 10th, 2009
12:37 pm
Just so long as Erin Andrews is around. I don’t care what she talks about on the sidelines.
dUmB DAwg
July 10th, 2009
12:40 pm
nO pLEasE kEeP lORaN oN tHE siDElINeS.
coachdawg 2000
July 10th, 2009
12:47 pm
babble on-
are you talking about the great dorsey levens who can barely speak coherent english on css or the borderline-ratarded racist stew. maybe tech can get steak shapiro to take about what he ate for breakfast before your perpetual noon kick-off football games on some obscure local cable channel or where ever yor pathetic conference broadcasts your game. BTW you shold check out where the espn sportsnation has the all-cupcake conference ranked #5 out of 11. Congrats you are better than the sunbelt in the eyes of america.
coachdawg 2000
July 10th, 2009
12:54 pm
Lou holtz says” this jd s-sh_tokely is going to do great for the unviversity of georgia university.
NewnanDawg
July 10th, 2009
12:55 pm
I’m not sure if Pollack wants to coach, but he has to finish his degree before he will have the opportunity. I agree completely with everyone about Holtz – he slobbers so much I can’t watch on HD – too disgusting. He really lost me a few years ago when he kept talking about D.J. STOKELY, and routinely gets other players names wrong from around the country. I used to dislike May, but Holtz makes him look good.
Go Dawgs – in broadcasting too!
Sanford Drive
July 10th, 2009
1:05 pm
Newnan Dog,
I remember the DJ STOKELY incident as well. That guy brings nothing to the table.
lakerat
July 10th, 2009
1:05 pm
Why would Pollack or Stinchcomb want to coach – both are already millionaires and coaching is a vagabond lifestyle. And, Pollack already graduate from UGA with a degree in history, on time!
coachdawg 2000
July 10th, 2009
1:06 pm
how about jill arrington. She called Pollack, po-lock after 2002 south carolina game and even Mark Richt got annoyed with how stupid she was. I like eye-candy as much as anybody but it would be nice if they would hire somebody with at least a little of football intelligence.
Actually, coachdawg...
July 10th, 2009
1:12 pm
Enter your comments here
Actually, coachdawg...oops
July 10th, 2009
1:13 pm
…he was probably talking about John Salley and Brent and Jon Barry.
ROHO
July 10th, 2009
1:16 pm
Has everyone forgotten about UGAs coolest name Jiggy Smaha, ‘65?
FL DAWG
July 10th, 2009
1:18 pm
Coach Richt please hire Coach Pollack, we need to breathe some life into the program…I bet DP would GATA,
He wouldn’t even have to show up during the week just on game day to do a little motivating.
Coachdawg 2000, I guess they won’t be hiring anyone from this blog…
coachdawg 2000
July 10th, 2009
1:22 pm
actually….-
john salley is doing great? he is bafoon on the best… sports show. The barrys are your typical never-wases that show to analyze the NBA. The NBA is one step above the NHL. It is boring and they are irrelevant. We were discussing football,i know tech is used to only focusing on basketball but the discussion is football broadcasts.
coachdawg 2000
July 10th, 2009
1:27 pm
fl dawg-
You are right most of the people on here would make Loran look walter Cronkite and I would guess they wouldn’t be considered eye-candy, unless your blind!
Saint Simons
July 10th, 2009
1:36 pm
45-42!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 10th, 2009
1:39 pm
Besides the others all ready named, don’t forget Charlie Rymer-GOLF and Bill Curry before he took over for GSU.
National NOT Regional.
Man, it’s hard to be humble, when your rival is UGAg.
Actually, coachdawg...
July 10th, 2009
1:40 pm
…RAMBLE ON said “Meanwhile, GT has former players in a variety of sports dominating National Broadcasting”. I know you like to brag about being a UGA grad, but even you should know the meaning of “variety”. And you could add the names of Dennis Scott and Bill Curry (though he is taking at least the next 2 years off).
And if I were you I would throw Deborah Norville’s name out there REAL QUICK (as a UGA grad – even if she isn’t a sports announcer) to trump anyone the Nerds try to name!
Sanjaya and Rosie O'Donell Love Georgia Tech
July 10th, 2009
1:47 pm
Stinchcomb and Pollack. Congrats!
Go Dawgs!!!!!
Saint Simons: You are a tool, go convert a cable box.
LSU Tigers
July 10th, 2009
1:56 pm
38-3 hahahahahahahahah
Otto
July 10th, 2009
2:08 pm
Preston, I see your point and there is only one way to find out. Of those that agreed I think they will share in the hope it would turn out with Pollack being a player’s type coach like Erk. IMO UGA could use a guy like that. I’m obviously not in the locker room but do not see someone like that at this time.
touchmypregnant belly dawg
July 10th, 2009
2:15 pm
Dont do that!
Moreno
July 10th, 2009
2:16 pm
I promise I wont do that no mo…
Iceman
July 10th, 2009
2:17 pm
Why are you calling them ex-Dogs? Typical AJC…Techies are “former Jackets”, but the red and blacks are ex-Dawgs. Amazing.
NewnanDawg
July 10th, 2009
2:23 pm
lakerat – Not sure why I thought Pollack was working on his degree now…. must have him confused with another recently retired from the pros player. He seems to me like the kind of guy that will be the best at whatever he does; it’s just his competitive nature and work ethic
Pago Flyer
July 10th, 2009
2:28 pm
Having women “do” mens sports just doesn’t seem right! Somebody told us NASCAR now has women doing pit stories?!
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 10th, 2009
2:42 pm
Man… this story is lame.
Oh well,..back to building the robot.
Ramble On is G@y
July 10th, 2009
2:50 pm
Never Fails! You crack us up Ramble On! If it is so lame then why have you wasted your afternoon posting on here? Oh, that’s right, because you are a basement dwelling Nerd!
Texdawg01
July 10th, 2009
2:52 pm
Good to see Mike Patrick and Holly Rowe will not be doing many SEC games anymore. Holly Rowe is perhaps the worst sideline “reporter” in the land. And acid flashbacks have hindered Mike Patrick during the last 10 years or so (remember the Britney Spears outburst?)
Ramble On is G@y
July 10th, 2009
2:53 pm
Humility is something you Nerds should have down pat. But, keep on pretending that you have the dominant program. Ask ANYONE outside of the rivalry who has an unbiased position and they will say UGA owns Tech.
Ha ha ha…your funny though, keep the jokes coming!
Texdawg01
July 10th, 2009
2:55 pm
Andre Ware has become a little better on the tube during the last few years. Remember the first game he did in the booth with CBS? That’d be the 2001 Georgia-Tennessee Hobnail Boot game. He called Damien Gary “Damien Gray” on numerous occassions, referred to David Pollack as David “Po-lock” a few times and relayed that “Vernon” Haynes caught the game-winner. Guess there was only one way to go from there from the former Heisman winner, huh?
AppalachianBrave
July 10th, 2009
2:56 pm
Ramble On…” GT has former players in a variety of sports dominating National Broadcasting”?
That’s the only thing they’ve dominated. Good for you.
Big Dan
July 10th, 2009
3:03 pm
Bill King calls Holly Rowe mistress of the obvious question, and tomorrow he will ask yet again to discuss who is the greatest dawg..