Looks like a talking head may become NDSU's play by play guy....
Ed Schultz eyes a return to the NDSU football booth
By: Dave Roepke, INFORUM
Fargo’s foremost sportscaster turned pundit wants to return to the press box.
Ed Schultz, the liberal political talk-show host, is eyeing the job he held for 13 years before he made the jump from WDAY television to radio in 1996: calling North Dakota State University football games.
“Would I do the Bison? You’re damn right I would. Absolutely I would,” said Schultz on his nationally syndicated radio show on Wednesday, the day the show began airing live locally on KQLX 106.1 FM.
If he does mount a return to the Bison booth, it won’t happen immediately.
The lineup of football announcers – Scott Miller of WDAY 970 AM and former NDSU defensive lineman Phil Hansen – will not change in 2009-2010, said Jeremy Jorgenson, director of sales and broadcasting for the NDSU athletic department.
“We’re set in stone for next year,” said Jorgenson, who also reports from the sideline during Bison football broadcasts.
Schultz said Thursday he plans to back a bid for the rights to Bison broadcasts, a contract that’s long been held by WDAY and that expires after next year’s basketball season.
“Obviously, I’m thinking long-term. The Ed Schultz brand isn’t leaving Fargo,” he said.
Schultz said he could either make an offer through his broadcasting company or KQLX, an NDSU affiliate that airs Bison games, could join in the bidding.
“There’s a number of different ways we could go,” he said.
Jorgenson said negotiations for Bison broadcast rights.....For more click on link....
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