No more Musburger on ABC Night game

[victor2111]

Time to get his replacement in and taken over.

Musburger will now be ESPN main SEC channel guy with Jesse Palmer.

College football's national championship game will have a new voice.

On Wednesday, ESPN announced what had long been anticipated within sports television circles: Brent Musburger will no longer call the national title game.

Instead, Musburger and Jesse Palmer will serve as the lead broadcast team for the upcoming SEC Network when it launches in August. The new team will debut on Aug. 28 with Texas A&M's season opener at South Carolina. The current contract of Musburger, who turns 75 in May, was up as of early this year. His new deal is for multiple years and includes calling a college bowl game on ESPN, as well as Big 12 basketball.

"I'm delighted to be staying with ESPN, thrilled to be able to call the best football conference in the nation every week and am really looking forward to working with Jesse, who I covered while he was at Florida," Musburger said in a statement.

Palmer reached a new agreement with ESPN that also includes staying as an analyst on ESPN's Thursday night college football package. Jon Solomon of The Birmingham News reported that the SEC Network so far has cable and satellite deals to be in approximately 20 million home

Rumor is Chris Fowler(Does College Gameday with Kirk) Will be the new main guy to go with Kirk.

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And he is dead to me....can't stand listening to a game with Palmer as a commentator.

[WANG]

I liked Musberger despite all of the ire he received from Buckeye fans.

I like Fowler too, though, so I am okay with this.

[ohstatefan]

Does that mean I have to start watching the SEC network to have somebody point out all the hot girlfriends in the stands?

[angrybaldman]

Sad day for CFB

[victor2111]

I think Fowler is good. Like him on College Gameday, Brent is not getting any younger.

Brent/Kirk were good combo though. Going to be different.

EDIT: I thought I heard on the radio that Fowler deal was up soon with ESPN and he wanted more. Also heard today that he has been with ESPN since................1986. Didn't know that.

[ohstatefan]

Interesting. ESPN didn't begin airing until 1979, so he was pretty close to the start.

[socaljd3]

I never watched many saturday night games to have it be that big of a deal to me...i'll hear him more on espn games.

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Wish we could resurrect Keith Jackson.

WHOA NELLIE !