now that patrick hadan has decided to become the athletic director at his old school, who will do the color work with tom hammond ?    my suggestion is to ask hammond to leave and bring in tony roberts with a guest celebrity color for each home game this season..... sort of like the old jack parr program of the 50's & early 60's.   use an nfl celeb or some of the old retired notre dame players from across the country and bring a different kind of broadcast to the old peacock......  

Great idea dal!  Tony Roberts and the late-great Tom Pagna will always be the voice of Notre Dame Football in my ears.  I wouldn’t even mind seeing ND graduate Don Criqui calling the games.  He does a great job on the radio end of things and has a passion, obviously, for Notre Dame.  I always enjoyed Pat Hayden, even though he played for the enemy.  He truly has a special place in his heart for the Irish and was very engrossed in football in South Bend.  Hammond on the other hand comes off as way too unbiased for my taste, even giving ND’s opponent a bit more oomph during the broadcast.  I understand NBC wants their Notre Dame crew to be as neutral as possible, but come on, you either watch the Irish because you love them, or because you want to root for the team they are playing.  A little splash of partiality would make for an even better experience for us Irish fans during home games at the House that Rockne built.     

that madden ever commanded a super bowl winning team......

but, on the other hand, he sells a *&%$ load of tinactin---- go figure    LOL 

I vote that they bring in Mike Golic for color and Roberts for play by play

I vote Mike Golic and Joe Theismann would be sweet in my IMHO...

tuning onto a cubs game to watch baseball ?   ( that in itself is a circus.....over a hundred years of mediocrity ---with a bartman amendment and a goat )  

ok, so we get to hear dandy don meredith sing...."turn out the lights at the little house on the prairie"   ------ and dierdorf would be interested in only the michigan / irish matchup.....nothing more.     come up with a combination like that and i will assure you that 70% of additional viewers would simply turn up the stereo / radio and listen to criqui & pinkett on the westwood one broadcast like i usually do......  sorry cubsfan, that's more a crash and burn.....