John Brady is really good in the booth

Brady is the best radio analyst at LSU right now, hands down. He obviously knows the school and the basketball history. Be he also isn't so far removed from coaching the game that it has passed him by. He can, and does, give great insight. But he is really tremendous at not trying to make himself the "star" of the broadcast. Plus, he is incredibly respectful of Wade, and you can tell in the post-game interviews they get along well...even if Wade's style is probably much different than Brady's at LSU.

It is really remarkable to think this is the same John Brady who was acerbic and OVERLY sensitive to criticism when he was the HC at LSU. It is even more remarkable he's back involved with the program that fired him not all that long ago. A decision he very much resented for a while.

Brady seems to be comfortable and at peace with his life and career. He seems happy to be doing what he is doing, and it makes for a really good broadcast. Probably the best of all the major sports Blair calls.

Blair is much better at calling basketball games than football but that’s just my opinion.

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Then the "DAYS INN" every time he hit a 3

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Yeah you could tell he was workshopping it all offseason but it doesn't hit like a fire ant on a fever blister. Not the hall of famer's best work.

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He should replace Lyn Rollins. that was one of the worst broadcasts I ever had to listen to on ESPN+ becaue Lyn literally got like 20 calls wrong and had to be constantly corrected.

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You're making an apples-to-oranges comparison. They do different things. Rollins is a play by play broadcaster, albeit a terrible one. Brady is a color analyst, albeit a good one. So one can't replace the other. The only sport where play-by-play guys also do color and vice versa is Major League Baseball, and most of the time that happens on radio. And it doesn't happen as much as it used to happen.

I'm not sure why a lot of people on these boards struggle to understand this, but I see this kind of mistake all the time when comparing announcers.

completely agree. Lynn was horrible and took the fun out of an otherwise awesome game

John Brady is a great basketball coach also.

Grew up watching Brady play high school ball in McComb, MS. Our school was biggest rival. His high school coach, Bobby Nelso, was college level talent...John learned basketball at an early age from one of the best.