Gus Johnson will be Fox's top football announcer

• gorocks99

  

  http://www.bigtennetwork.com/dpp/about_us/Announcer-Gus-Johnson-Joins-Fox-Sports
  
  Includes two games on the BTN, as well as a lot of Pac-12 games from the new agreement in 2012.
  

  This season, Johnson and Davis call Big 12, Conference USA and Pac-12 regular-season games on FX, as well as a pair of games for Big Ten Network, one of FOX’s two conference football championship games and the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. In 2012, they’ll call FOX’s regular-season over-the-air broadcast schedule, culled primarily from the network’s recently completed rights agreement with the Pac-12, as well as the aforementioned postseason assignments. In addition, Johnson also continues as the lead play-by-play voice for college basketball on Big Ten Network, will call FOX’s Pac-12 men’s basketball tournament games come 2013 and select NFL on FOX broadcasts following the college football season this year.

• sleeper

  

  like.
• krambman

  

  Hopefully at least one of the BTN games that he does is a Buckeye game. If not, I at least hope they give him games that should be competitive, even if it's something like Illinois and Northwestern. He'll get me to watch non-OSU games on BTN.
  
  I also believe that this means he'll be doing more basketball for the BTN because he won't have any other responsibilities at the time.
  
  From what I heard it wasn't just money, but politics involved with him leaving CBS. I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted the Final Four and they weren't willing to give it to him.
• ts1227

  

  Yeah, there's stuff flying around that Nantz was basically trying to protect his turf, and CBS obliged.
• wes_mantooth

  

  ts1227;765772 wrote:Yeah, there's stuff flying around that Nantz was basically trying to protect his turf, and CBS obliged.

  
  Nance needs to stick to the masters....he is below average when it comes to bball.
• ts1227

  

  CBS appears to have plugged their AFC Football hole created by Johnson's departure with Marv Albert (who had been calling games for Westwood One)
  
  http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/06/marv-albert-lands-with-cbs/
• killer_ewok

  

  ts1227;792337 wrote:CBS appears to have plugged their AFC Football hole created by Johnson's departure with Marv Albert (who had been calling games for Westwood One)
  
  http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/06/marv-albert-lands-with-cbs/

  
  Nice. Marv is great.