Shorter Paul Finebaum: Michael Adams is so deviously two-faced that he’s going to hire an athletic director who will undermine Adams’ own support of Mark Richt.
Throwing it up against the wall to see what sticks.
Filed under Georgia Football, Media Punditry/Foibles
Get The Picture 
I’ll nver get that 3 minutes of my life back, and I’m dumber for it.
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The comment sections of Finebaum articles make AJC commenters seem like MENSA members.
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I would encourage my fellow Georgia fans to stop clicking on “Richt on the hot seat” links. All it does is put money in the pocket of Finebaum et. al., guaranteeing the meme continues and helping our rivals in recruiting.
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So Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe wields enough power to prevent Adams from becoming the NCAA president? PF’s articles are as lame as his show.
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Obvious linkbait is … obvious. Let’s stop feeding the troll by linking to him or following links to him.
Seriously, if blather from Stephen A. Smith can be flushed from the public discourse, the same can be done for Finebaum. Just takes collective discipline.
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Isn’t there something to be said for exposing those occasions when he’s egregiously hackish? Or do you guys not want to let me have any fun at all? 😉
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I understand why you do it but it does help the hack get exposure. Personally, I purposely did not click on the link precisely because of what Tommy said.
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P.S. Maybe you can still have your fun by repeating what he says with attribution (with appropriate criticism) but not including the link which fattens his wallet.
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Or your link typeface could remind us that by clicking, we validate this butthat.
Hopefully, we would not be able to click through your warning label.
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Living in Birmingham, I’m subjected to his trash everyday on radio and in print. I don’t read his trash, and I rarely listen to his show…but it’s the only sports talk on during the drive home. Inevitably I end up tuning in for a few minutes, only to feel that I have decreased my intellect by a notch or two for doing it.
He’s gonna get his butt kicked one day, but that’ll probably just make him more of a cult hero to Bammers.
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Senator,
Please have your fun. I get to listen to this quite
a lot. Where I have breakfast a group of Bama fans
sit at a table an talk about Finebaum and the sorts.
Yes, Prov, they do make the forums at the AJC and
the Eugene, OR(my hometown) papers look like MENSA members.
Finebaum is one of the biggest hacks I have seen
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So the thinking of the galactic stupid sports writers is when there is an AD change there will be a change in the head football coach. It is summer and a few days remain before the season starts, so real sporting news is in short supply. Again, these guys and gals have to create a story to keep their job and make money. It is very puzzling to me how CMR is always considered on the hot seat. No doubt UF has been hot, but you have to lay alot of their success to a QB that has moved on. And last season you could see his burn down. Also you had an AD whose judgment and actions had the potential to putrefy the entire sports program at UGA. At present the sun shines on the campus at UGA because of the character, class, record, and accomplishments of CMR. Evans betrayed every player and coach at UGA. Any AD coming on board or UGA presidente sees that. Not many coaches in D1 ball have CMR’s credentials. What UGA fans and supporters have to do is look at the success of the football program. Its shadow casts across the entire athletic programs. You can say what you want, but CMR has alot to do with the bucks flowing into that AD department and others. Time to stop kicking ourselves in the ass and letting others do it to.
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This whole AD thing is an elaborate “Spanish Prisoner” scheme hatched by Don Leeburn.
1. Adams, owing his hiring and survival of numerous gaffes, trusts Don as his most ardent supporter. Don, the loyal booster, stands by Mike through the Dooley fiasco (among others) and encourages that he hire the unproven Damon as a win-win for Mike, Vince & the program.
2. Don then encourages Damon to embrace the trappings of power that accompany the AD position. Don is a 3rd generation rum runner and knows a Baptist from Gainesville is a rank amateur at philandering, boozing and bribing state officials.
3. Suzanne conveniently retires as HC of the GymDawgs in Summer of ’09, exactly one year prior to Panty-Gate. Suzanne bides her time in Elba, er Crystal Hills, and adopts a Herschel Walker routine of 1,000 sit ups and 1,000 push ups a day plus mixed martial arts sparring with Don.
4. Don convinces Mike that the Dawg nation needs “healing” and needs to hire “one of its own”. Don helps Mike realize that McGarity can’t be trusted as a former Dooley shill. The only person with deep ties to the program, the ability to crush a beer can in a personal area and a wide open schedule is ………Suzanne!
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Suzanne Yoculan is a winner!
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Which leads directly to this afternoon’s two degrees of Steve Martin separation:
1st degree:
2d degree:
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Richt is 9-4 against Bama and Auburn. Maybe Finbaum can’t stand it. I love his talking points — “Richt is a good coach and a nice guy”
“Georgia fans have their heads in the sand”
“Runner up Richt”
What a goofball. I guess he would have been calling for Bear’s head if he’d been writing back in the late sixties.
As in all things time will tell. I think with the changes CMR has made Finebaum may be eating some crow in the coming years.
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The press keeps “enabling” Richt and he is the highest paid state employee. Would you enable the Governor if he led the State in a downward direction for several years?
This program should be as opportunistic in recruiting coaches as they are players! LSU, Florida and Alabama demand results and achieve “Championships Plural”. There is a window of opportunity here but Coach Richt is “blocking” the window. Will Muschamp and Kirby Smart are going to be going to higher paying Head Coaching Jobs and the Dawg Nation is stuck with mediocre Mark Richt. Smart and Muschamp are Georgia Grads, Richt is not! Would you rather miss an opportunity and be a “middle of the pack” SEC team?
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You mean an opportunity like the last time a Georgia grad was head coach? Be still, my heart.
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Finebaum is nothing more than Bama’s propaganda minister. His entire m.o. with the Richt- hot seat thing is to provide Georgia recruits coveted by Saban with the perception of uncertainty and instability within the program. He’s almost certainly on the payroll, probably under “miscellanious expenses” in the Bama ath. dept. He is essentially Goebels(sp?) to Saban’s Hitler. This can be a dirty, dirty business and nobody plays that part as well as the folks in Tuscaloosa. It’s basically all they have to hang their hats on as an entire state.
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Is that George Gobel?
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January 1,2011 Mark Richt will have hauled in another $15 million plus and for what?
You guys are right on the money! Look at Richt’s conference record during the same time frame:
2006 4-4
2007 6-2
2008 6-2
2009 4-4
Could Will Muschamp or Kirby Smart do any worse?
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6-2 in the East isn’t bad. Could they do worse? Possibly. Could they do better? Possibly. Could I wake up tomorrow and find a sack of money on my front porch? Possibly. Richt has made changes where they needed to be made. I, for one, want to see how it plays out. He has a track record now as a head coach. Neither Muschamp nor Smart does. I’ve seen a lot of hot “golden boys” crash and burn as head coaches. I’m amazed at the Georgia fans (if you are, in fact, one) who want a quick hook with Richt. That’s part of the problem with sports in the modern era — by your standard Vince Dooley, Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, Robert Neyland and Bobby Dodd would have all been replaced at down points of their careers.
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