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He's enthusiastic --and still a sharp, provocative observer of the games. Plus, he's an institution at this point. Like it or not, he's part of what reminds the ole' brain that it's March Madness again.
The hate-Billy-Packer bandwagon is just another of those mysterious mass hater phenomena that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me -- along with the widespread belief that the NBA and Duke games are fixed, Gigli is one of the worst movies of all time, Tom Cruise is crazy, etc...