Radio Color Commentator

Charlotte 49er Football 🏈
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I applied for UNCC FB color radio job. Lost to my former teammate/fellow Heel Kevin Donnalley. Kevin will be great! Congrats to KD!
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Kevin Donnalley played at Davidson before transfering to UNC-CH, too.

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???

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We can’t limit our searches to only Charlotte grads. That would be stupid.

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We can’t limit our searches to only Charlotte grads. That would be stupid.[/quote]

But, OF COURSE!

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Good radio will be important, especially as our network grows.

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One positive of noon football is we might actually be able to hear the radio broadcast on campus because they’re allowed to transmit at full power during the day.

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KD did color for our spring game and every report I heard from those that listened said he was great.

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We can’t limit our searches to only Charlotte grads. That would be stupid.[/quote]

This. Donnalley is a great choice, and did an awesome job for the Spring Game. I’m excited to have him on board.

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One positive of noon football is we might actually be able to hear the radio broadcast on campus because they’re allowed to transmit at full power during the day.[/quote]

We will have a network. This will not be a problem going forward. IMG has invested too much in us to continue ONLY airing games on 730am.

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One positive of noon football is we might actually be able to hear the radio broadcast on campus because they’re allowed to transmit at full power during the day.[/quote]

We will have a network. This will not be a problem going forward. IMG has invested too much in us to continue ONLY airing games on 730am.[/quote]Yeah there is no way IMG will spend $8 million on our program to have our broadcasts only on an AM station that has very little coverage at night.

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Hard to argue an NFL guy with radio chops. Good call IMO.

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Wasn’t Lanny Ford considered for this job? Was he in contention for the job?

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[quote=“NinerNirvana, post:13, topic:27874”]Wasn’t Lanny Ford considered for this job? Was he in contention for the job?[/quote]I doubt it. Color commentators are almost always people that have experience playing the sport.

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Exactly, football is Lanny Ford’s forte. I am pretty sure that he played collegiately at Clemson. I don’t know if he played beyond college.

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Lanny’s a great guy, not exactly a wordsmith on the mic.

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I’m cool with this as long as he never mentions “his Heels”.

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IMG is looking for a more polished production… I’m just waiting for 15 years from now when we have an ex player join the booth so we can have our own Todd Ellis-esq 110% biased homer on the mic.

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[quote=“NinerNirvana, post:15, topic:27874”]Exactly, football is Lanny Ford’s forte. I am pretty sure that he played collegiately at Clemson. I don’t know if he played beyond college.[/quote]Ah, I didn’t know that. He was probably in the running then.

I like the choice though. We now have another Panther associated with the program. We need to do everything we can to form the right relationships and so far I think we’re doing a pretty fair job of that.

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Yeah, I thought he was excellent minus a few name issues here and there but who could blame him with our confused ass identity.

He dropped a couple “UNC Charlotte 49ers” and a few “Forty-Niner Nation”