Primary Beef: He's insipid. He doesn't break the game down at all, or educate you about the intricacies of what you are watching. "Trifecta, baby!" isn't analysis.
Secondary Beef: Dick really needs to get off Duke's dick. I like Duke too, but forchristsake, Dick, you're just embarassing yourself. He talks about how awesome Duke is during *other* team's basketball games.
Tertiary Beef: Catchphrases. Just . . . catchphrases.
Here is an amusing ancedote from the RockChalk boards, from a Jayhawk fan who lives in Europe:
I'm able to get a few (Kansas basketball) games on DVD through a European distributor. They come two games to a disk, so there's always a non-Kansas game included as well. One of our Swiss friends is a big hoops fan, so I loaned her a DVD to acquaint her with the excitement of US college basketball. The second game on this disk (I don't remember who was playing) had Vitale on the broadcasting team.
When she returned the DVD she said she now understood why college hoops is so popular in the US. But she wanted to know about the "strange old man with no hair" that was announcing the second game. She thought he was speaking a non-English language much of the time, and she was surprised he was so openly gay. Very amused, I asked why she thought he was gay; she replied that he kept talking about some guy named Duke that he seemed to be in love with. Beautiful.
