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Social media heavily criticizes NBC broadcast of Notre Dame-USC

Geoffrey Clark
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Notre Dame playing USC always draws a big audience no matter who’s broadcasting it. It’s one of the great rivalries in college football, so even people who don’t have a rooting interest will tune in. That means more eyes than usual are exposed to how NBC covers Irish games. It turns out that might not have been the best thing.

As has been custom for the past couple of years now, the broadcast team of Jac Collinsworth and Jason Garrett was subject to heavy criticism. But there also were noticeable sound issues as the broadcast’s audio kept cutting out at times. Most egregiously, at least for me, NBC’s feed completely cut out for an extended period in the fourth quarter, so I only heard Jadarian Price’s kick return touchdown on the radio broadcast. Not a good look for the network.

NBC Sports executives need to take a good look at their Notre Dame broadcasts and correct a lot of things. Irish fans will watch regardless because they don’t have any other way to see home games short of making the trip to Notre Dame Stadium. But that doesn’t entitle NBC to put in half an effort into these games.Viewers deserve a lot better.

Here are only a few complaints from viewers on social media:

Ben Jamin

Chris Breach

Kyle Smathers

Mac Smith

Terry Blumer

Tim Kalinowski

Nate Brown

Chris Dokish

David Alm

Thomas Casale

Dan Back

Jake Asman

Robby Kalland

John Tague

Matt Carey

Mike Hendrix

Brandon Jackson

Matt Snyder

Michael Vallely

Mike Adzima

Brian Belefski

Greg Bettinelli

Jason Kirk

Story originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire