Agreed. Flotrack has become so irrelevant over the last few years but the one thing they have that brings people back is that they stream a lot of these big indoor meets. If that's all they do, maybe they could have some decent commentary on it... NOPE.
I wonder what the application/interview process is for hiring people at FloSports. Is it a requirement that they have the voice, diction, and general literacy of a high school freshman? How can you mispronounce Kieran Tuntivate and Joey Berriatua so many times and in so many different ways? They referred to Zouhair Talbi as Alex Masai the entire race. Shows no common sense and no knowledge of the sport. It's almost an expected thing at this point, that anyone from flotrack will cover a race by butchering names and screaming into the microphone with shrill voice cracks.
It really is a shame because this was a historically fast race at BU. And I enjoy looking back on historic races, but it will be hard to do so because this was the only coverage of it and every word that comes out of the flotrack announcer's voice makes me cringe.
I don't know anything else about BU and their sports teams, but I assume that these races and maybe hockey are the only things that really put their school on the map as a place for world class athletes to go. That's a really big deal for any university. Jordan Carpenter and BU athletics should watch the coverage of that race and see how horribly it was delivered by the immature scrubs at Flotrack- a few times referring to it as Boston College, but mostly just screaming mindless phrases like "BOSTON UNIVERSITY IS THE LAUNCHPAD". Hopefully they realize how much flotrack ruins the coverage of their school's events and strike a deal with someone else to stream all their races.
Overall this was an amazing weekend of track and field. However, reading other posts on this forum (Chicago coverage, etc.), it is frustrating that we still have so many "this is why nobody follows or cares about our sport" moments because it's delivered so poorly.
Agreed. Flotrack has become so irrelevant over the last few years but the one thing they have that brings people back is that they stream a lot of these big indoor meets. If that's all they do, maybe they could have some decent commentary on it... NOPE.
I wonder what the application/interview process is for hiring people at FloSports. Is it a requirement that they have the voice, diction, and general literacy of a high school freshman? How can you mispronounce Kieran Tuntivate and Joey Berriatua so many times and in so many different ways? They referred to Zouhair Talbi as Alex Masai the entire race. Shows no common sense and no knowledge of the sport. It's almost an expected thing at this point, that anyone from flotrack will cover a race by butchering names and screaming into the microphone with shrill voice cracks.
It really is a shame because this was a historically fast race at BU. And I enjoy looking back on historic races, but it will be hard to do so because this was the only coverage of it and every word that comes out of the flotrack announcer's voice makes me cringe.
I don't know anything else about BU and their sports teams, but I assume that these races and maybe hockey are the only things that really put their school on the map as a place for world class athletes to go. That's a really big deal for any university. Jordan Carpenter and BU athletics should watch the coverage of that race and see how horribly it was delivered by the immature scrubs at Flotrack- a few times referring to it as Boston College, but mostly just screaming mindless phrases like "BOSTON UNIVERSITY IS THE LAUNCHPAD". Hopefully they realize how much flotrack ruins the coverage of their school's events and strike a deal with someone else to stream all their races.
Overall this was an amazing weekend of track and field. However, reading other posts on this forum (Chicago coverage, etc.), it is frustrating that we still have so many "this is why nobody follows or cares about our sport" moments because it's delivered so poorly.
Sadly it is not just Flotrack. The announcers get the athletes wrong, the splits wrong, the distance in the race wrong, so I don't even listen to what they say. The Runnerspace guy doing the WA meet was wrong on many counts too. Then there was the famous ESPN analyst at the NCAA T&F championships.
Way back when Ryan & Alex were the main guys it was tolerable, but ever since then it's been one incompetent millenial after another.
Fisher takes down Rupp's AR of 13:01 by 8 seconds on the same track. I guess Jerry beats Alberto after all these years by hiring a better dope guy! Kidding but maybe not.
I subscribe to every service there is and watch every track meet out there. The ISU meet and the BU meet had the best camera work and best picture quality of any meets this year. The announcers were fine. I don't really care about that anyway. I hope Flotrack makes a comeback because there are so many meets that are either not streamed or they have a crappy stationary camera.