Finebaum leaving Birmingham for Charlotte to join ESPN

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hog88 said:
I don't think he can do a "sports show" he doesn't know anything about X's and O's, he has made his living from pitting AU and UA people against each other. Plus hugging Saban's ballsack.

His national ratings on Sirius were bad, I see this as being no different. He should have just stayed in B-ham where his Jerry Springer act works.
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I agree with most of this - his specialty was investigating and covering issues surrounding the administration of sports rather than speaking about sports themselves.

His command of information about sports other than college football is particularly weak - when callers would change the subject to the NBA, baseball, etc. he was quite uninformed.

His approach too is akin to Rome in that he is a relentless basher.

If you notice when he appears on TV shows it is generally about coaching changes or administrative issues.
 
#30
#30
Nothing like good ole Paul Finebaum...if the guy could tongue bath Nick Saban while humping an Alabama helmet I believe he would. He makes some interesting points now and again but his callers are annoying as all get out. He's like a redneck bald Jim Rome...and his callers are even worse that "Legend" guy is like the grand marshal of the idiot parade. You literally want to reach through the radio and punch him in the face...

I suppose a good idea for the World Wide Leader...cheap programming that they don't have to pay out the nose for...
 
#32
#32
I've listened to his show before and I don't get the big appeal
 
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hog88 said:
I don't think he can do a "sports show" he doesn't know anything about X's and O's, he has made his living from pitting AU and UA people against each other. Plus hugging Saban's ballsack.

His national ratings on Sirius were bad, I see this as being no different. He should have just stayed in B-ham where his Jerry Springer act works.
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exactly.. he can't do a sports show because it requires him to break down football and he rarely showed that on his show. it's easy when your radio shows revolves around moron callers who call in and attack each other or when he spends his time trashing coaches that aren't nick saban.

there was a good piece mrsec.com posted regarding a question ask finebaum on what will happen when he starts calling for coaches to be fired because that is a big "selling" point of his show, he prides himself in trying to get coaches fired and it's even part of his promo. that can't happen if he is to have a show on the sec network, he can't actively go after coaches like he does. the espn rep who they interviewed said they want paul to be paul, but they would have to discuss subject matter of his shows. he will have some parameters because if not he will no have a job on the sec network for long.
 
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ZeroDarkThirty said:
exactly.. he can't do a sports show because it requires him to break down football and he rarely showed that on his show. it's easy when your radio shows revolves around moron callers who call in and attack each other or when he spends his time trashing coaches that aren't nick saban.

there was a good piece mrsec.com posted regarding a question ask finebaum on what will happen when he starts calling for coaches to be fired because that is a big "selling" point of his show, he prides himself in trying to get coaches fired and it's even part of his promo. that can't happen if he is to have a show on the sec network, he can't actively go after coaches like he does. the espn rep who they interviewed said they want paul to be paul, but they would have to discuss subject matter of his shows. he will have some parameters because if not he will no have a job on the sec network for long.
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I give him a year before he is back crawling around in the sewers of Birmingham licking Saban's a$$.
 
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I think the problem he's going to run into is this: At a certain point, the SEC isn't going to put up with all the bashing of its member institutions or the coaches and teams thereof on its very own TV network, especially by a very well paid employee of that network. Journalistic integrity is one thing. If there's a story involving one of the teams, then there's a story. Finebaum's forte isn't journalism. It's about which redneck can call in and bash the other.
 
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