Billy Packer Out At Cbs

[SUMG]

From the DMNews college blog:

Billy Packer is out after 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS. He will be replaced by Clark Kellogg.

Kellogg has done game and studio analysis for CBS for 16 years. He will partner with Jim Nantz on his first Final Four in April. Packer worked 34 consecutive Final Fours.

(My thought on this: I never was a big fan of Packer. I used to like when he, Enberg and the great Al McGuire were a team on NBC doing games---decades ago. But Packer, without McGuire, was like Howard Cosell without Don Meredith. Anyway, I like Kellogg....so this is a good move to me---SUMG)

Edited July 14, 2008 by SUMG

[GoMeanGreen1999]

From the DMNews college blog:

Billy Packer is out after 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS. He will be replaced by Clark Kellogg.

Kellogg has done game and studio analysis for CBS for 16 years. He will partner with Jim Nantz on his first Final Four in April. Packer worked 34 consecutive Final Fours.

(My thought on this: I never was a big fan of Packer. I used to like when he, Enberg and the great Al McGuire were a team on NBC doing games---decades ago. But Packer, without McGuire, was like Howard Cosell without Don Meredith. Anyway, I like Kellogg....so this is a good move to me---SUMG)

Good move in my opinion. I was getting tired of Billy Packer for sure.

[drex]

Billy Packer is a classic example of when to know to hang it up. He is well over the hill. At sixty-two I can make such observations.

[CMJ]

Constantly put down schools not in the Power 6. He called a good game, but I'm not sad to see him go.

[KRAM1]

I can't at all get worked up about this. It was time that packer retired...past time in my opinion. I think Kellogg will do a great job. I am looking forward to the "Packer-less" era!