The stupid things Larry Rawson said at NCAAs thread.

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9 years ago 06/13/2014 12:14am EDT

re: Mike J. Smith

Absolutely correct.

Gore appears to be getting his lines from the truck...a bit late...says runner is in third, for example, when she is dropping back into pack. Spoke of the noise coming from the Oklahoma fans...huh.

Raw son talks too much about himself.

The girl down on the field tells us what we already have seen...Why didn't she follow up on Spencer injury, for example, or interview the woman's hammer winner from Princeton.

Camera work is OK, some timely replays of falls etc.

We hear a huge roar in background...Prandini long jump?...but totally ignored until next dat...hey, it is track and FIELD...

Graphic USC Spartans...the fall of Troy to Menelaus?

9 years ago 06/13/2014 4:08pm EDT

re: Merry Buddy

I have no doubt that Larry Rawson is an outstanding person. As an announcer, he is hard to listen to enjoyably. My strong advice to any entity broadcasting the meet is to get Dwight Stones to commentate on the field events and just patch into the meet announcers who are just outstanding. I would even be willing to give Jordan Kent a shot based on his work in the pre-meet interviewing. The gal doing the on the field interviews is even worse than Larry. Who did Ato Bolden piss off? He is good as is Dwight, but Larry gets the pilot seat. I just can't figure out the thinking behind the assignments. ESPN thinks Larry is the man and for the life of me, I cannot understand what gives them that impression.

9 years ago 06/13/2014 7:01pm EDT

re: im an azzhole

im an azzhole wrote:
"Go down to your local high school track ..."

That's not as stupid as you think it is.

At my school a teacher(and football coach) wanted to see how fast our kids ran 5k. They average about 5:20 per mile. So he figured he'd run a 400 on the track in 1:20 to see how it felt.

He ran like a 1:36 and almost died. He has a TRUE appreciation for the distance runners- as does our whole State Championship football team.

True story.

9 years ago 06/13/2014 10:29pm EDT

re: runn

During the mens 800 today:

" Patrick rono once ran a 22 second 200 meter as a young boy on a dirt track in Kenya"

9 years ago 06/13/2014 10:38pm EDT

re: No diggityy

Makes the whole NBC track program look AMAZING

9 years ago 06/13/2014 11:01pm EDT

re: No diggityy

During the races Larry talks about background information way too much. We don't care about that Larry, we care about the race.

9 years ago 06/13/2014 11:15pm EDT

re: Eugene the Ex-Drinking Machine

This is what bugs me. Build up a whole file of "things to say to fill air time" but don't prepare to call the race.

Case in point: in the last straight of the 800m it was painfully obvious that neither commentator had any idea who Ryan Schnulle and Keffri Neal were.

There are only eight guys in the race. Prepare to be sure you can recognize any of them. It should be Rawson's top job to help out the other guy on that. Rawson is the one who is supposed to be the expert.

It would have been even more embarrassing if McBride hadn't held on for the win.

9 years ago 06/13/2014 11:16pm EDT

re: ESPN3 watcher

Larry is good. The other dude knew nothing about track.

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