He is a member of this board. 
Wouldnt blame him though.  Except for baseball all sports have switched to the loud announcers.   My pet peeve is at Steelers games, that stupid "And that is another Steelers FIRST DOWN."   That annoys me for some reason.

Last edited by duqkurt (12/18/2014 11:26 am)

Welcome aboard Voice. 

I hope the administration is paying you hazard pay for having to try and drum up excitement for the mausoleum that is your current work environment!

Good Luck Voice, the late Art McKenna did this for years when dukes played at the  Civic Arena, but they wine there so it might have been easier to excite the crown.

Hello Dom!  Welcome.  I would compare your job of trying to sell snow in Alaska.  Too bad you weren't here when RE was and when we had hope in the present.  Good Luck...you can use this gig for penance.

Phildog wrote:

Spell check intrusion, Dukes won there

Pardon this very respectful intrusion, but we also want to get Art McKennan's name correct.
 http://sabr.org/node/23967

I loved hearing the voices of Art McKennan, Ray Downey and John Barbero growing up as a kid who loved sports.  Amazing voices, all of them.  
 

Mulder wrote:

apluski wrote:

Under the title: WTF?
In light of the horrible state of affairs the following is only an insignificant sign of exactly how badly the wheels have fallen off the wagon. During a time out, my wife turned to me and asked why the cheerleaders just threw two of the free Duquesne Tee shirts up into the St Francis fan section. St Francis fans thought that hilarious. Evidently, the bad decision making permeates the entire program. 

I've noticed this before too.  Not only that, why not get the shirts, basketballs, etc. to the kids rather than the adults?  Either the DU students who are there or the young kids who are there?   I've seen adults reaching for shirts tossed over top of the little kids that run to the front of the section to try to get them.  Why not make sure that the kids get them?  If you are an adult in the blue seats do you really need a little basketball more than the children who are there and excited about getting them?  It seems we do things that alienate rather than help. 

And Steel City Voice (Dan), I'm glad to see  you aren't someone's brother but a professional - you can see my cynicism at how DU operates extends to everything.  Since you said you are looking for suggestions:  My suggestion would be to put a little contrast in the way you announce someone scoring rather than the same tone and same phrase each time.  For example, instead of saying "Micah Maasaason" each time he scores (which admittedly isn't happening often right now) a simple "Micah" might do (or "Micah for 2").  Don't mean to be picky (and don't mean to be mean either) - I guess my frustration extends to everything anymore when it comes to DU men's basketball.

Cheerleaders, announcers.   We are one loss short of turning on the band again.      A prolonged losing streak and the concession products are not safe.  
 

Last edited by duqkurt (12/19/2014 9:33 am)

ElDuque wrote:

Phildog wrote:

Spell check intrusion, Dukes won there

Pardon this very respectful intrusion, but we also want to get Art McKennan's name correct.
 http://sabr.org/node/23967

 
Thanks