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Ohio State may not be so great at scoring touchdowns in BCS games these days, but have you noticed how many former Buckeyes there are broadcasting sports, especially football?

My gosh, every time you turn on the television or radio, there's Kirk Herbstreit doing analysis. And Cris Carter. And Eddie George, and Robert Smith and Chris Spielman and basketball's Clark Kellogg and Jimmy Jackson (on the Big Ten Network).

That doesn't even get into the guys doing local Ohio television and radio, such as Joe Montgomery, Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Jim Lachey, Jeff Logan, Demetrius Stanley, Ryan Miller, Bill Hosket, Ron Stokes, Rob Harley and others, or guys doing local teams elsewhere, such as Keith Byars.

That's quite a few talking heads from one school, although if you're from around here you wouldn't think anyone from Michigan could talk sensibly for more than a minute without getting their tongue caught in their ear.

Please tell me there's someone other than Desmond Howard from Michigan doing this kind of thing. Even Purdue has two broadcasting quarterbacks in Bob Griese and Gary Danielson.

"I don't know if it's unique to Ohio State," Kellogg said on a recent visit to Dayton. "It's a tremendous university with athletic tradition. It's more coincidental and timing. I can't give you a rhyme or reason."

Whatever. It's nice to see, and I think it shows that OSU athletes can do more than play.

All talk, no delivery

Interesting that Matt Millen is joining NBC for its Super Bowl XLIII pregame coverage. It's interesting because so many athletes say broadcasters don't know what they're talking about, and here's a guy who won four Super Bowl rings in 12 years as a player, then went into the broadcast booth and did a fine job there before being hired by the Lions as general manager.

All of the sudden, Millen didn't know so much, culminating in being fired during this 0-16 season for the Lions.

Asked by Dan Patrick, "How responsible were you for this season and the last eight years there," Millen played it honestly.

"Oh, completely responsible," he said. "When you're head of football operations, you throw it back on me."

Just because you can play a good game and talk a good game, doesn't mean you can assemble a team to make a good game.

Enjoy his comments, but adhere to the warning label: Don't try to do this at home.

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