As part of the television broadcast team, Verne Lundquist sits in on an intimate availability with coaches and players not offered to the rest of the media. Usually, he says, the meetings are informative, particularly with Gary Danielson leading the conversation on tactics and personnel.
Sometimes coaches will have some fun with the broadcasters, tipping them off to aspects of the game plan that they will get to see unfold before their eyes. Lundquist said former Cincinnati Bengals coach Sam Wyche loved letting announcers in on the secret, and so did Tommy Tuberville when he was at Auburn.
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"I'll tell you someone else who used to that ... Tommy Tuberville, now at Cincinnati," Lundquist said this week on the SEC on CBS Podcast. "He used to get a great kick out of it. He would share, and it was kind of like 'wink wink' insider information. But there is a matter of trust. Most coaches get it. They understand what our needs are and within their own personalities fulfill those needs."
I wanted to follow-up and find out if Tuberville's tips ever helped Lundquist call his shot on the broadcast.
"Oh yeah!" Lundquist responded. "And then the next week if we had them he'd say 'How'd that work out?'"
I also asked Verne about "letting the pictures do the talking," something that Gary Danielson said Lundquist does better than anyone in the business. Tune in below as the voice of the SEC on CBS opens the door into broadcasting history to reveal some of the names (and voices) that inspired his style along the way.
