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Orange Blooded [2069]
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Pete Yanity
Sep 30, 2013, 4:50 PM
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Does he plan to say "There's ORANGE in the end zone" this Saturday? May be hard to follow.
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Re: Pete Yanity
Sep 30, 2013, 4:53 PM
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Pete is hard to follow regardless. If I'm not watching the game while he's calling it, there are times I have no idea what's going on. I've just never been a Pete fan, but it is what it is.
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110%er [6851]
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If that means jerk--I agree whole heartedly!***
Sep 30, 2013, 4:55 PM
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Heisman Winner [119684]
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Would you rather have a loud-mouth jerk
Sep 30, 2013, 4:58 PM
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like the coot announcer?
Give Pete a break...
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CU Medallion [52219]
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Pete Yanity is the best
Sep 30, 2013, 4:56 PM
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compared to the team of TV announcers we had for the Wake game.
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All-Conference [415]
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Re: Pete Yanity is the best
Sep 30, 2013, 4:58 PM
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True, I'd rather listen to Pete than some of these retarded ESPN announcers. I still think we could do better than Pete. Just my opinion.
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CU Guru [1400]
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That's like saying
Sep 30, 2013, 5:03 PM
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Getting your finger shut in the car door is better than zipping another appendage up in your fly. While technically true it doesn't mean the original premise was wrong.
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CU Medallion [52219]
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Not saying the original premise was wrong...
Sep 30, 2013, 5:09 PM
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Yanity does not compare to Jim Phillips. (I doubt anyone ever will.) That was just another chance to voice my disgust at the garbage announcers employed by ESPN.
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CU Guru [1400]
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I understand
Sep 30, 2013, 5:40 PM
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but when the best defense you hear is "He's better than most ESPN announcers" that isn't much of a defense.
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CU Medallion [52219]
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True***
Sep 30, 2013, 7:56 PM
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Oculus Spirit [75714]
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I am surprised he hasn't tried to find other
Sep 30, 2013, 4:58 PM
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work yet. Maybe if he is around another 50 years, people who never heard Jim would like him.
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Standout [344]
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Re: I am surprised he hasn't tried to find other
Sep 30, 2013, 5:48 PM
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> work yet. Maybe if he is around another 50 years,
> people who never heard Jim would like him.
^^^This.^^^
I've come to terms with the fact that for me there will never be another Jim Phillips. I'm still a pretty young guy, but I'm pretty sure it will be impossible for someone to match my childhood memories of hearing Jim every Saturday in the Fall.
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All-American [554]
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Re: I am surprised he hasn't tried to find other
Sep 30, 2013, 9:42 PM
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Feel the same way about bob fulton. Nobody will ever measure up. We were both lucky to have excellent play by play men for a long time.
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110%er [9056]
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All I know is that he makes me miss......
Sep 30, 2013, 5:01 PM
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our last and final real Voice of the Tigers, Jim Phillips.
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Orange Blooded [2762]
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Amen. 1st and only time I got to meet him was at
Sep 30, 2013, 5:07 PM
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UNC basketball game - one where we fouled out all but 4 players - during half where we smoked our cigs and groaned over the refs...I was in awe.
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Re: Amen. 1st and only time I got to meet him was at
Sep 30, 2013, 5:34 PM
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I had 13 inch TV in Johnstone on while I watched that game. I'm pretty sure they heard me yelling two towns over. That game, y'all. That game.
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Orange Blooded [2762]
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Crazy wasn't it? I still consider that Rick Barnes greatest
Sep 30, 2013, 5:50 PM
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play calls in his career. He started undressing and asked could he go in. It was brilliant
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Re: Crazy wasn't it? I still consider that Rick Barnes greatest
Sep 30, 2013, 9:27 PM
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It really was. I mean, I think it was 45 fouls to 10 or something. That was the most gigantic joke of officiating that I've ever seen on any level or at any sport. Especially at basketball (and my dad was a coach who loved the sport so I've seen lots and lots of basketball.)
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I know this may be too soon, but the last 5-7 years before
Sep 30, 2013, 5:50 PM
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his death, Jim Phillips really started to decline as an announcer.
If they were hiring a new announcer at the time, and Phillips was a candidate, Yanity would have beaten him out for the job hands down.
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Orange Blooded [4411]
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I remember many on this board wanted to get rid of Phillips
Sep 30, 2013, 5:54 PM
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not long before his death.
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110%er [6321]
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The funny thing is....
Sep 30, 2013, 6:28 PM
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this board was crucifying Phillips before he died. Wanted him gone.
Guess it is true...you don't know what you got 'till it's gone
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Orange Blooded [4504]
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Some of these posters want to fire any and everybody. Par
Sep 30, 2013, 10:09 PM
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for the course for them.
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Pete's not bad
Sep 30, 2013, 5:07 PM
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Just hard to listen to anyone other than Jim Phillips . "Hello Friends"
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110%er [9056]
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Agree - Jim had the personal connection like....
Sep 30, 2013, 5:27 PM
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the announcers in the past tended to have - now, they all sound like they graduated from announcers school and got pushed into sports announcing.
No more guys like Jim Phillips, Larry Munson, Bob Fulton, Woody Durham, etc. T
The two guys Carolina now uses think they're personable but they just sound like clowns to me.
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Orange Blooded [3590]
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Re: Agree - Jim had the personal connection like....
Sep 30, 2013, 5:59 PM
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In the 70's, when seeing the Tigers on TV was a rare event, I listened to every game on the radio. Listening to Jim, I could follow the Tigers up and down the field, knowing exactly where they were and what they were doing. That is what radio was all about, and the old announcers knew how to bring the game to life for their listeners. To me, Jim will always be the Voice of the Clemson Tigers. He loved them dearly. I remember when Jim wore a toupee while announcing on channel 4, and how odd he looked the first time I saw him without it.
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Re: Pete Yanity
Sep 30, 2013, 5:24 PM
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Dang it - I miss Jim Phillips. I can still hear him calling the Wake game when we scored 80+ points and he was having trouble finding the names of the substitute players. You had to love Jim.
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110%er [9056]
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But I do remember that he enjoyed saying.......
Sep 30, 2013, 5:28 PM
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that we scored 82 points!
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Legend [19664]
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I was the one pointing to the wrong players for him, me and
Sep 30, 2013, 5:54 PM
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Sac Bagley. But when their are 3 number 72's playing, hey, what ya gonna do 
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Yanity sounds too fake. I'd rather have somebody mess up
Sep 30, 2013, 5:56 PM
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their words and have a smaller vocabulary as long as they sounded like they actually cared and they were not using a fake voice.
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All-American [585]
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Re: I miss Jim!! Not sure I would be happy with anyone
Sep 30, 2013, 6:00 PM
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After listening to Jim for years and years. How about his son? Similar voice?
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Legend [19664]
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Nah, I grew up in SC with the accent that comes with that
Sep 30, 2013, 8:00 PM
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besides, I have a better boss...being a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ
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Re: Nah, I grew up in SC with the accent that comes with that
Sep 30, 2013, 8:25 PM
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Ya got my vote son!!
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Re: Yanity sounds too fake. I'd rather have somebody mess up
Sep 30, 2013, 6:03 PM
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This is the way I feel too. Pete just sounds detached, like it's just a job. I never get the feeling that I'm listening to someone who bleeds orange. When we win I want to hear the excitement in his voice. The kind of excitement that just naturally comes out when someone gets excited. When we lose I want to hear the disappointment in his voice. To me he just doesn't seem to connect to a large part of the fan base.
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Re: Yanity sounds too fake. I'd rather have somebody mess up
Sep 30, 2013, 9:44 PM
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I am sure pete has come to pull for the tigers somewhat through association, but his athletics allegiance lies elsewhere. University of Ohio maybe. Cant remember but I think its an ohio school that isn't ohio st.
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Legend [19808]
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Tnet finally found something "miserable" to discuss
Sep 30, 2013, 6:02 PM
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about this football season 
I am a Pete fan. I like listening to him, and wish I didn't go to so many games or watch them on tv so I could listen to him more! I didn't grow up listening to Jim Phillips, so maybe that is why. I like him a LOT more than many of the announcers I hear for other schools who sound like grumbly old men who have smoked for 50 years.
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Orange Blooded [2659]
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I am with you. I don't have a problem with Pete. He is, at
Sep 30, 2013, 10:24 PM
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least, a classy announcer. I do admit that I am not a big fan of his "orange in the endzone" thing. I think that it does take attention from the team and places it on himself. But all in all, he is good in my book.
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