He can drive you crazy, but you know college basketball has arrived when it's bald headed ambasador opens his mouth and dose'nt shut it until March!!!! Dickie V is great for the sport!

If Dickie V had a BGP membership Gametime would be in serious trouble for "post leader" from day one. Dickie V would be a BGP "Diaper Dandy"!!!

Yes, DV is pro-ACC, and he's very pro-Notre Dame (I think one or more of his kids attend). Yes, his "awesome babys" and "freeze-its" are stale.

 

And he is slowing down a little. He appears on the Mike and Mike radio show nearly every Monday, and he almost always sounds like he's coughing up a lung. I thought he sounded pretty hoarse last night during the IU-Duke game.

 

But who else can be as immediately identified with a sport - especially a college sport - who is not a famous player or coach (sure, DV was a coach, but he sure wasn't famous as a coach)? Dickie V IS college basketball. Nobody promotes the sport and the kids who play the sport like he does.

 

Dickie V is as much a cultural icon as he is a college basketball commentator. Watch what happens when he shows up on virtually any campus. He is literally mobbed - by kids 40 or 50 years younger than him. It's a love fest.

 

Is he the best or the smoothest to call a game? Not by a long shot. But I cannot honestly say that he takes away from my enjoyment of the game; and I certainly appreciate all that he has done for college basketball.

I cannot stand his "freeze it" when I'm trying to watch a replay. :argue:

Yes, DV is pro-ACC, and he's very pro-Notre Dame

He is not close to as pro N.D. as Digger "I can't beat Kentucky" Phelps.:lol: No offense to the bgp Digger.

I've said in the past on here that I got to spend some quality time talking to him while he was in Lexington. Our fraternity had raised a couple of thousand of dollars for the Jimmy V Foundation. He let us know that he wanted to meet before the UK/Maryland game in the hotel lobby in the Hyatt. It was a HUGE game! UK and Maryland were 2+3 at the time (Steve Francis days). He spent a quality 15-20 minutes talking like a normal person about his passion to help fight cancer and what a great thing we had done! When he was walking off he said in his Dicky V voice "The Morehead Mashers.... you guys are awsome baby!"

HE WAS A GREAT GUY! I also saw his speach to the incoming college kids a couple of years ago. He is one of the best speakers I have heard. He is truly passionate about youth and doing what is right!

I think Dick Vitale is a good man.

 

No one is perfect, but I REALLY beleive he does a nice job commentating, LOVES college basketball, and is fundamentally decent person.

 

BTW, I can't stand Billy Packer

I think Dick Vitale is a good man.

 

No one is perfect, but I REALLY beleive he does a nice job commentating, LOVES college basketball, and is fundamentally decent person.

 

BTW, I can't stand Billy Packer

Is there ANYONE out there who likes B. Packer other than B. Packer?? He is TRASH - "a legend in his own mind"

My all time favorite to listen to in calling a basketball game were Cawood Ledford (yes, that was radio but imo no one was ever or ever will be better), Al McGuire and Jimmy Valvano. May all of them R.I.P. Ha sanyone else turned down th T.V. sound and listened to Cawoods call of U.K. games? I know that that was the norm for me.