Not awesome with a capital 'A'

In case you needed yet another reason to mute your television whenever ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale opens his mouth, I found it.

After Sunday's NCAA basketball tournament selection show, Vitale lamented loudly about how the selection committee jobbed out Notre Dame (17-11), which finished 9-7 in the Big East but stumbled repeatedly at the end of the season, by excluding it from the Big Dance. He also criticized the committee for handing an at-large berth to UAB (21-10), which went 10-6 in Conference USA and beat a good DePaul team twice in the last couple of weeks.

I disagree with Vitale's logic, but I at least could respect it if he were consistent. Which he isn't. A few hours before the committee unveiled the brackets, Vitale had UAB in the tournament and Notre Dame out. So in addition to being unable to contribute much to a basketball telecast other than gutteral sounds and catchphrases that were outdated 10 years ago, Vitale apparently can't even hold a consistent opinion for half a day.

How does this guy still have microphone privileges?