I love watching sports on TV: It’s getting harder and harder to listen to it

CBS gives Bruce Pearl a platform to advocate for the school that still pays him to get an NCAA Tournament bid.

ESPN pays Carlos Boozer to work on its ACC Network in between games sitting courtside rooting for his twin sons playing for his alma mater.

This isn’t the Syracuse Mafia doing play-by-play everywhere, because Syracuse is the Ivy for sports-media dorks.

It’s not even Jay Bilas being a prominent Duke grad doing color, or Cory Alexander, a UVA alum, who, it still boggles my mind that he hasn’t improved since his disastrous first season as a radio analyst on Virginia Basketball broadcasts back in the final year of the Dave Leitao era, and is at the top of the game among ESPN color guys, doing his thing.

Alexander, UVA fans will remember, rather famously talked a ref into overturning an out-of-bounds call in the final minute of a close game that went against Virginia, and had the intense but otherwise unflappable Tony Bennett wanting to tear his head from his shoulders from across the court.

Everybody you hear on college sports broadcasts went to college somewhere, and the analysts are almost all former players and coaches with obvious ties to somewhere.

You expect the ones on your home-team radio network to be homers; you shouldn’t have to endure the Bruce Pearls and Carlos Boozers literally cheerleading.

The Bruce Pearl situation at CBS is worse, because he has a bigger perch at CBS – and because he’s the epitome of sleaze, dating back to his days as an assistant coach who tried to ruin an 18-year-old kid’s life because the kid decided to sign with a rival.

Boozer, at ACC Network, is the tree falling with nobody there to hear him, 360 days a year – ACCN is only relevant, such as it is even then, during the ACC Tournament, which Boozer spent going back and forth between sitting on the set providing analysis, and sitting courtside looking like a ‘90s hip hop mogul hanging out with his label.

That problem half-corrects itself in a couple of months, when the good twin, Cameron, is a top pick in the NBA Draft; though the other twin, Cayden, whose destiny is two-way deal, a couple of years from now, assuming that he develops a perimeter game, is going to continue to be an issue going forward.

I’m overstating that – ESPN doesn’t care about Carlos Boozer cosplaying Suge Knight at Duke games, any more than CBS is worried that Bruce Pearl is a slimeball being paid to shill for the school that hired his son to succeed him.

If I can ask, could we get alternate broadcasts for the shows that Pearl and Boozer are on, a la what ESPN does with “Monday Night Football” with its “ManningCast,” but just with, nobody talking – just graphics with the info we’re looking for?

And actually, if you could do that for the games that ESPN assigns Cory Alexander to, even better.

I know, he’s a fellow Waynesboro guy and UVA alum, but, enough is enough.