Fire Clark Kellogg's NCAA Tournament Analysis

Clark, please put the mic down. 

A brutal NCAA Tournament final was made even worse last night by Clark Kellogg's nonsensical in-game analysis, so let's fire him before March 2012 rolls around.

CBS brought in Kellogg to replace Billy Packer when he quit in 2008. Packer, the perennial ACC apologist, set such a low standard that anyone this side of Tim McCarver had to be an improvement. Kellogg is definitely better than Packer, but that's like saying Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was better than Gigli. We got these gems from Kellogg last night, ranging from incredibly obvious to incomprehensible.

With Butler down 35-28 in the second half and on the way to shooting 18.8% from the field, Kellogg informed viewers that "shot making has got to take place if Butler is going to win." Amazing insight.

In the second half, Butler center Andrew Smith caught the ball under the basket and attempted a layup that completely missed the backboard. Kellogg said: "He never knew where he was and was completely out of control, so that wasn't a good shot attempt." True, Smith didn't seem to know exactly where he was. But a player who is open under the basket should take that shot every, single, time.

And the best for last: Early in the second half, Smith committed a foul, which Kellogg described as "a bad cholesterol foul" for which "the rebound was the cure." Maybe Kellogg had a checkup earlier in the day and forgot he wasn't in a doctor's office.

Calling a game is hard. There is only one Vin Scully. But so many people would kill for Kellogg's job and there are so many good analysts out there (hat tip to CBS for bringing in Steve Kerr this year), that there is no reason viewers should be treated to a heaping bowl of Kellogg's mediocrity.