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Purdue basketball broadcast

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While in Indy today I caught some of the Purdue game on am radio and who's ever broadcasting the game is doing a excellent job miking the action! Nice job! Was on 86th street by 465 and found the game on am 860.
 
Unless things have changed this season, Larry Clisby does the play-by-play for Purdue men's basketball, which he's been doing for a number of years. Larry spent a number of years doing sports for WLFI's evening and late newscasts. He later moved to radio as the third mic on WAZY's morning show before returning to WLFI news as a sports fill-in.
 
860 is from Marion,IN and has a great signal during the day.
 
Play by play is always good but I was impressed with how well the game was miked. Could hear the sneakers squeak, player chatter, and the ball hitting the rim.
 
While in Harrisburg PA a few weeks ago, I listened to a high school game on FM. There was only two mikes, one
each for the pbp and "analyst". No crowd noise, no sneakers, etc. You had absolutely no idea what was going on.
While working at a little AM decades ago, the boss set up several mikes, all on the table. You knew what was going on
without the pbp. Good sound is OK, great sound is a necessity.
 
I don't know if he's still involved in basketball; but as recently as two years ago the corporate VP/Engineering for Cumulus (Gary Kline?) would fly in from Atlanta to engineer football games as a labor of love.
 
Purdue sports are handled by Learfield Comm. in Kansas City.
I believe WNDE is the flagship station.
 
I remember Gary Kline. He was one of many who helped get WSDM get back on the air after the Brazil studios were set on fire. There was another engineer from Lafayette who also helped, I think he was was with wazy. An awful experience to go through but with all the help that came pooring in from all over was truly amazing.
 
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