twentythreeOh4
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Trey Bender and Jordan Tripp are the new announcers for KPAX/Scripps sports.
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New KPAX TV Announcers for Griz
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Griz in Texas
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Nothing at all against Jordan Tripp, I will miss Marty on these games. Any info on where he will be this season?
I feel bad for Marty cause I did like him but Trey Bender is a massive upgrade over Jay Kohn. That’s not even a question. Tripp will do a good job as well. Excited to see these two in action.
alabamagrizzly
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My dead grandma would’ve been an upgrade to Jay.
MantanaGrizzly
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Thank the lord
buh bye Jay
buh bye Jay
MantanaGrizzly
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Thank the lord buh bye Jay
buh bye Jay
These two should be a massive upgrade from Jay and Marty.
HelenaHandBasket
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Grizzinator
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Did Marty get a boot to the butt for saying “above the tits?”
HelenaHandBasket
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Promoted.
Wow. That is fantastic news. Trey Bender is legit.
He's very good and very experienced. And as an added bonus, he has some familiarity with the Griz and Wa-Griz as he's called two Griz playoff games. 2013 Coastal Carolina and 2019 SE Louisiana. Big upgrade!
Scripps Sports announces new broadcast team for Griz football - University of Montana Athletics
Scripps Sports announced a new on-air talent lineup for its TV coverage of Montana Grizzly football this fall on Wednesday.
We will never again reach the highs of "above the tits... of course I can say it on TV, it's a coaching point!"
HUGE upgrade in the play-by-play calling. Jay really tried but just wasn't a play-by-play announcer. It takes a certain level of football understanding and ability to do that job. (And ability to learn the roster and remember players numbers.)
I know that Marty could be annoying sometimes but he also brought a vast array of football knowledge and coaching experience to the booth. I'm sure Jordan Tripp will do fine but it won't be the same level of analysis. I will miss some of the Marty quips like "The Bobcats are playing hard, they just aren't playing very good"...
I know that Marty could be annoying sometimes but he also brought a vast array of football knowledge and coaching experience to the booth. I'm sure Jordan Tripp will do fine but it won't be the same level of analysis. I will miss some of the Marty quips like "The Bobcats are playing hard, they just aren't playing very good"...
BelierPeaux
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I’ll join others in saying getting Trey to call these games is huge. Good voice and very professional/knowledgeable. Outside of the two games mentioned above, I think he called some of our games back in the late aughts, too. Very excited for this duo.
I'm now curious how Scripps was able to land Trey Bender as the play-by-play announcer. Does he now live in Montana? He's called television games for Kansas, for Fox Sports Net Arizona, FSN Chicago, Arizona State baseball, games on ESPNU, ESPN3, NBC Universal. We seem to have hit the jackpot with getting Trey for Griz football games.
Think this might be more of a "retirement" gig for him. I see he's also the full time play-by-play radio voice for Loyola Marymount Basketball. We should see if he can help us get a home and home with LMU in Basketball.
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Griz in Texas
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My first year at Montana I lived in Miller Hall with pretty much the entire basketball team and a good number of football players. I'd run into Marty about twice a week heading out the north entrance as he was coming back to the dorm. Someone asked me once if I had ever heard Marty speak, and I thought about it a moment. I didn't ever have a conversation, I'd say hello and he would grunt or mumble a response with a smirk on his face. This person asking me the question said, if you didn't know better, you'd swear Marty was drunk to hear him speak. After two years in the booth, any of you who had never heard him before, as well as those who know him well, might equally concur with that assessment. Especially the "above the tits" call.
