ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, November 3, 1996 TAG: 9611050028
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-6 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG
SOURCE: JACK BOGACZYK STAFF WRITER
Virginia Tech will have a new radio analyst for basketball this season.
Well, sort of.
Mike Burnop, the former Tech football star tight end and longtime analyst for Hokies' broadcasts, will move courtside with play-by-play man Bill Roth for Tech men's hoops this season on the International Sports Properties-produced network.
Burnop replaces former Tech guard Quinton Nottingham, who was the radio analyst the past three seasons. Nottingham, a Tech business professor, decided not to return, Roth said.
Burnop, 45, filled in for Nottingham on two basketball broadcasts each of the past two seasons. He was a second-team All-Roanoke Metro basketball pick, primarily for his rebounding, during the late '60s at Catholic High School.
"I do know a basketball is round,'' Burnop joked Saturday before working the Tech-Southwestern Louisiana football game with Roth. "So, it's not going to take as many funny bounces.''
Burnop, the owner of New River Office Supply, is in his 14th season as Tech's football analyst and is working his ninth season with Roth.
"Mike's just a really good broadcaster,'' Roth said. "He knows what kind of preparation it takes and he does it. He's familiar with the basketball players and coaches. We're going to have some fun with it.''
Burnop makes his "official'' debut as Tech's radio basketball analyst Nov.11, when the Hokies meet a club team from the Republic of Yugoslavia at Cassell Coliseum.
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