It’s an old cliche of course but there is truth in cliches and certainly in this one: you don’t know what you have until it’s gone.
So it is with the Voice of the Blue Devils, Bob Harris.
Now that retirement is here, fans are left to wonder: what will Duke broadcasts sound like now?
His successor has not been announced, but we’ll be very surprised if he has a regional accent. The days of guys like Bob Harris and Woody Durham, both from Albemarle, both with deep, lush, unapologetically North Carolina accents, those days are over.