Sometimes TV gets it right … eventually.
Thursday’s Notre Dame- Princeton game on CBS was heading for the wire when Jim Spanarkel calmly and concisely gave a complete rundown of contingencies, a useful overview on what to expect.
And that included a widely ignored but sound strategy: Would Notre Dame, if up three with a few seconds left, choose to foul Princeton?
Spanarkel answered his own question: Notre Dame coach Mike Brey prefers to pressure the shooters in such moments, not give the foul. How is that for applied homework?
Spanarkel, throughout that game, day and then night, did what he does: He kept his and our eyes and mind on the game, saw it and spoke it in the here-and-now, saw it and spoke it from what had happened and from where it might be going.