Yeah because Rutgers operates its athletics 'big time ' in almost every facet . That's why the football and men's basketball programs have been so stellar .
Has anyone heard anything about Bruce Johnson?
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Yeah because Rutgers operates its athletics 'big time ' in almost every facet . That's why the football and men's basketball programs have been so stellar .
Well said. Simply, Bruce Johnson was "R" guy.
I don't think Johnson ever used the bending bending description. I think that was a tv announcer.
Someone mentioned his call when we lost to VT in 2004. I remember it so well that it's kind of scary. He said "dowdell looking, looking, and it goes to Gordon near mid court. Gordon left of the lane run and gun no good REBOUND TIPPED... At the buzzer..... Virginia tech wins it.
Someone mentioned his call when we lost to VT in 2004. I remember it so well that it's kind of scary. He said "dowdell looking, looking, and it goes to Gordon near mid court. Gordon left of the lane run and gun no good REBOUND TIPPED... At the buzzer..... Virginia tech wins it.
Bruce was way better at announcing hoops than football. Hoops he could see what was going on, whereas football, he missed so many calls it was laughable: "and the pass to LJ Smith over the middle is caught--no wait, the pass appears to have been intercepted."
Wow, Bruce Johnson was not "awful" - he was a true broadcasting professional unlike the radio "personalities" we seem to embrace these days. He was excellent at basketball play by play especially. Not only that, he gave unselfishly of his time and talent to mentor many young people, including lots of Rutgers students. Just think about how many of those people have gone on to very successful careers in broadcasting - Neal Solanz, Jon Gurevich, Jennifer Kushinka, Danny Breslauer, Gordon Deal - just to name a few.
Yeah, that bending, bending thing was the tv guy last name Sanders not to be confused with John Saunders with a u. That call made zero sense but since it was tv it didn't matter because I could see it myself. Bruce's "off the rim and in" call on the radio however...
IMO Tom McCarthy was huge step up for play by play in FB. Still think he was best we've ever had.
Bruce was fine for BB.
Bruce was not awful in basketball. I could actually see the game when he called it. You are wow!.
Tom McCarthy was a fine professional voice, but he never embraced or did his homework to become a Rutgers announcer. Didn't know or appreciate our history. And didn't stay.
No love from me for him.
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Before he took that job, he never embraced Rutgers. And you want someone for whom this is a dream job, not a stepping stone.
His hiring did us exactly zero good.
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He is a Trenton State College grad so probably not much interest in sticking around.
(Probably has some meaty Kevin Bannon stories though...)
Better than the guy before and the one after.
Dream job? Maybe if you worked at WRSU. LOL
MLB or the NFL is where these types want to end up. Nothing wrong with that.
His hiring and the putting our games on the 50K watts of WOR did a lot of good. RU football never "sounded" better before or after.
When I find out how to link his call of the Nate Jones kickoff return for a TD against Tenn you might change your mind.
