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Packer replaced as CBS' lead college basketball analyst
Houston Chronicle ^ | July 14, 2008, 5:22PM | By DAVID BARRON

Posted on 07/14/2008 5:15:58 PM PDT by Perdogg

As CBS Sports announced Monday that it has hired Clark Kellogg to replace Billy Packer as lead analyst for its college basketball broadcasts, Packer cast an unemotional eye on his three decades as one of the network's signature voices and said he is eager to work on other projects.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: billypacke; cbssports; clarkkellogg; collegebasketball; ncaa; ncaabasketball
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1 posted on 07/14/2008 5:16:00 PM PDT by Perdogg
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2 posted on 07/14/2008 5:17:07 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

YEAH BAY BEE!


3 posted on 07/14/2008 5:17:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Black dogs and bacon bombs.)
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To: Perdogg

Goodbye to ACC loving Billy Packer. I guess CBS finally realized everyone was sick of Mr. Know-It-All and his crying about Carolina losing last year. Jay Bilas would have been a better choice.


4 posted on 07/14/2008 5:20:10 PM PDT by Friend of the Friendless (R-Illinois)
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To: Rebelbase

THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 07/14/2008 5:20:16 PM PDT by Radl
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To: Rebelbase

I dunno. Clark Kellogg? NCAA Basketball without Billy Packer is like College Football with JoePa and Bobby Bowden.


6 posted on 07/14/2008 5:20:54 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Long, long overdue.

I enjoyed it back in the day when it was the Dick Enberg-Al Maguire-Billy Packer team and Al Maguire would endlessly mess with Packer and Packer wouldn’t even realize it.


7 posted on 07/14/2008 5:21:19 PM PDT by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: Radl

Worst commentator ever!


8 posted on 07/14/2008 5:21:19 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Friend of the Friendless

Billy Packer hates UNC; Just like everyone at DSPN (Dook Sports Network).


9 posted on 07/14/2008 5:21:50 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

UConn fans won’t miss him.


10 posted on 07/14/2008 5:25:20 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Perdogg

Okay, he loves “Puke” most of all, but he will take UNC (and any ACC team over any other team) any day of the week. No ACC team ever committed a foul in history of the NCAA, etc. Good riddance to the old fart.


11 posted on 07/14/2008 5:26:29 PM PDT by Friend of the Friendless (R-Illinois)
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To: Friend of the Friendless

He played at Wake Forest under Bones McKinney.


12 posted on 07/14/2008 5:28:25 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: GSWarrior

Who was worse Packer or Vitale?


13 posted on 07/14/2008 6:18:44 PM PDT by ardara
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To: Perdogg

College basketball has become a joke. That idiot running the NBA makes the best players park a year in college whether they want to or not. Whether a college is successful is not about building a team, but more like a lottery in which you get an elite player to spend a year at your school.


14 posted on 07/14/2008 6:26:52 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Perdogg

And there was great rejoicing.


15 posted on 07/14/2008 6:39:24 PM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: Perdogg

I attended Ohio State when Clark Kellogg was a player there so I’ve always liked him and am glad he got this job. I’ve seen him speak at various christian brakfasts the accompany the Final Four weekend. He seems like a good guy.


16 posted on 07/14/2008 8:08:16 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (I knew there was a reason I supported Phil Gramm in 1996!!!!)
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****College basketball has become a joke.****

I agree. It's ridiculous with these people that pretty one year and then they go onto the NBA.

17 posted on 07/14/2008 8:10:35 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (I knew there was a reason I supported Phil Gramm in 1996!!!!)
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To: Friend of the Friendless

Packer hates Carolina. Actually he hates about everyone. Even his alma mater. The man is a font of negativity. That said I kinda like him because unlike a lot of the guys he actually talks about the game at hand and knows his stuff.


18 posted on 07/14/2008 9:25:19 PM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: day10

Watching college basketball hasn’t been the same since Al Maguire passed.


19 posted on 07/14/2008 9:30:16 PM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: fkabuckeyesrule

I too was a Buckeye during those days. I’m very pleased to often hear Clark’s outspoken Christian testimony. He frequently speaks at a breakfast hosted by retired Pastor Bob Burney of WRFD 880 AM. He also proudly wears his U.S. flag on his suit prominently displayed when others refused to do so.


20 posted on 07/14/2008 10:01:10 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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