Good Lord, even for Finebaum this is embarrassing.
Yes, let’s make sure we give thanks for Mike Slive having the courage to make the only move he could to break a TV deal that wasn’t measuring up to what the Big Ten and Pac-12 were getting. I know I’m particularly thankful that the SEC has managed to sabotage its football and basketball scheduling as a result of that courageous action. Slive is just like a fireman rushing in to a burning building to save a young child… except for the fire and the kid.
Gah.
Get The Picture 
PAWWL has always been a shill for $live and his favorite team, the Crim$on Tide.
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I wish Mike Slive would show some of that supposed courage when it comes to compliance.
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or the officiating crews.
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Or Grayshirting
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Or drug testing standards and punishments/minimums.
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We penalize ourselves of our own choosing. The SEC should never take that right away from us.
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Compliance, when used selectively, brings in the dough and keeps the home office happy.
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Would it shock anyone if the Alabama folks want to set up their own network one day, ala Texas?
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They do that and I could see the two big media teams (Georgia and Florida) telling the SEC to stuff it and walk out. I guarantee there would be 3 conferences starting with the ACC that would accommodate the Dawgs and Gators.
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They can’t. All media rights for conference teams belong to the SEC now.
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The difference between being arrogant, cocky, emulated and competently successful and being Texas.
Yet another reason Saban should leave to be with like minded souls.
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The media share in Alabama and the media share in Texas are two completely different things. Yeah, Alabama is a big draw in 2013, but when they’re down again (and they will be) they’re a completely different animal from Texas. When all of the bandwagon Alabama fans in Atlanta move on to the next team (they were previously Florida fans for the most part), all the Alabama network would have would be Birmingham. That’s not financially feasible.
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I am so sick of Finebaum.! Thought when I got away from B’ham I would never have to see his ugly face and hear his BS again. Have to change the channel every time he comes on. What was ESPN thinking?
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$$$$$ that is what they were thinking, he is the shock jock of CFB radio.
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He is just so hard on the eyes. No matter how many times they change his glasses….he still looks like Atom Ant.
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Don’t insult Adam Ant like that, JRD! 🙂
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my wife thinks it is funny that a “nerdy guy like that” is a talking head on football. Her comment was, “What does he know about football except what isle to by one on?”
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Finebaum was the original subject of the joke “Is that your head or did your neck blow a bubble?”
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Hilarious!
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On the topic of his tweet, I like TAMU but Missouri doesn’t fit. They never will fit. Go back to the Big 12 or to the Big 10.
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I’m happy to have Mizzou.
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If for nothing else than that they’re what’s keep SOS out of the SECCG right now.
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Yup. And I pretty much hate everybody else in the conference…’cept maybe the teams from Mississippi. I’ll be rooting for Missouri every game they play the rest of the season…they seem like good people.
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I guess I am in the minority. I am glad we added both those teams and can only hope the trip to Texas is at least half as much fun as going to the Zou.
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I don’t object to the new schools. I object to how poorly thought out their admissions were. All Slive and the presidents cared about was changing the TV deals. Hardly an act of courage.
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I agree it had nothing to do with courage and everything to do with money. However, I am not sure how more thought would have prevented the situation we are in with scheduling. We are not going to go to a 9 game schedule and we are not dropping perm cross divisional opponents. With those two as givens I do not think it matters how much you plan or think there is going to be a problem.
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Agree whoheartedly. The conference gave even less forethought to accomodating basketball scheduling than it did football scehduling. I guess taking two new schools before knowing how to schedule them is an act of courage in Fiebaumland.
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I really think we are in the majority. Both are nice additions to the SEC. They just need to figure out that who’s in the east and who’s in the west more geographically correct.
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This expansion is teRrible for Georgia and I’m still sick about it. How is the annual tilt with Mizzou anything but a step down from our rotation through the West. Just one step closer to a nine game schedule and expanded playoff…
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As long as UGA/Auburn and UT/Bama are not impacted the expansion is fine. I like that the SEC is the only Conf with programs in 2 of the top 3 talent producing States. Tradition is a major factor in keeping the SEC strong and I have a growing dislike of LSU because of their whining about having to schedule a program that lost to Ga. Southern (no that doesn’t get old)
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3 of 4, Florida, Georgia and now Texas.
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True most surveys have Cali, Tx, and FL as the top3 in whichever order, I’m not looking it up. 4 GA, and the 5 and 6 flips between OH & LA.
So 4 of the Top 5 or 6
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Finebaum using the word courage in any context is laughable. He’s so self centered that he can’t recognize courage in ways that most of us do. His old show was gutter entertainment but I dread him being the face of the SEC Network. He has done a great job of making the Slives of the world fear his wrath.
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Finebaum in career shift from gadfly to sycophant. Not sure that transition is possible.
Fare thee well, Baldie.
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The Corch dilating on the “unfairness” of the BCS process and now the Bald-Headed Bamite with the Courage of Slive. A real epidemic of Shamelessness this week in a sport that could use a LOT less of it.
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I still think ESPN will come to realize that hiring FBomb was a mistake. He will alienate the passionate fans of other SEC schools if he continues to be a lackey for the Tide and spit on everyone else. Bama has a high percentage of Alabamians amongst their followers but it falls off drastically as get further away from the state borders. FBomb doesn’t “travel” well when you leave the sub-80 IQ level. All I know is I have thoroughly enjoyed him not being on the 3-6 time slot on my satellite radio channel. I have plenty of alternative TV channels to get CFB news from but was forced to change stations every afternoon to music channels when that crowd of clowns took over the CFB show.
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From your mouth to God’s ears. FIRE HIM PLEASE! I would love to hear the feedback ESPN has received concerning him this season. Of course, we never get that info. Wouldn’t want us to know how wrong they were on this choice.
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Joy I think you might be missing the point of ESPN….
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Enlighten me Scorp!
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ESPN don’t have time for anything but money….he gets viewers, clicks, all the markers….nothing else matters, what the fans say certainly does not matter at all.
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Guess I’m idealistic. Hate to think all things are about the $$$. A sign of the times, unfortunately….
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With corporate groups it has to be about that money, that doesn’t mean that it has to be slimey though. Profits are not evil and there are many great corporate citizens that should be applauded for the way they conduct their business and achieve their goals the right way. But I digress, I disagree with Scorp, I think FBomb will cost them viewers, not help them achieve their financial goals. My opinion is the WWL cannot distinguish between good and bad Southerners, his followers are loud, abrasive, and idiotic. We have that element among us unfortunately, but they are not the norm in the SEC’s constituency. FBomb does not represent what we are about, and the people who tune him in regularly cannot afford to buy many of the products ESPN’s advertisers are selling.
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Yes, Mac…yes. You explain it so well. Wish all CF fans had as much class as us.
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I miss Tammy.
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BTW, I have a bone to pick with ya’ll. I leave you in charge because I have had a hell of a season and have been too busy to look after things around here. I come back and the place has gone to hell. First we lose that high amp O and now Murray is gone for Tech. I swear I can’t leave ya’ll alone for five minutes! I’ll give you until August to get this mess cleaned up or there will be hell to pay!
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1) One doesn’t have to watch or listen to Finebaum. It’s possible. I’ve been away from the fray for going on several years now. Life is better.
2) Because his show used to be based in Birmingham, it was stupid for him not to ride the hot hand. He and Tubs were best buddies back in the day. When the Tide cycles down a bit, he’ll move on to the next thing.
3) I played high school sports with a sibling of one of his regular nut jobs. Makes me proud, I tell ya.
Happy thanksgiving,
BD
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BD you always bring reason to the asylum. Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving back athca.
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1) So true. Used to listen for an average of 10-15 mins back when he was on Sirius Ch91 before I couldn’t take it anymore.
2) An opportunist. He’s a big orange alumni. Can you seriously imagine a UGA alumni being the voice of the gators?
3) I certainly hope Tammy’s brother took it easy on you!
Happy thanksgiving to you too, beat auburn, and for god’s sake, please send Nick to Texas.
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#3 – bingo
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With so much better product available via blog, I rarely even acknowledge espn’s journalistic offerings (except for documentary type things like 30 for 30)
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The guy is a freaking nerd of the highest order. Took awhile to put him with a face. He is a dork. His comments and opinions are piss. Just trying to be kind, but I have a few more comments about him.
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He’ll go away soon enough….wait a minute, what am I saying? Granny, Corso and Co. are still hanging in there after all these years.
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Coach Corso is and always has been one of my favorites on Gameday. Hope he will be with us a long time. His recovery from the stroke he had a couple of years ago was wonderful. Finebaum is not even in the same league with a great man like him.
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Not so fast, my joy. I wish him no harm, but he’s…..well, he’s …a nice old fart.
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Cute….:)
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