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re: Eli Gold not returning to the radio booth
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:24 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:24 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Really lousy way to treat an icon. It would have been VERY EASY to ease him out after 2024 without firing him just months after a major health crisis.
More bullshat and disloyalty from UA.
I sure hope Deboer is a rock star and wins like crazy.
If not, the University might start reaping the “rewards” of 30+ years of treating the average fan like garbage…..
More bullshat and disloyalty from UA.
I sure hope Deboer is a rock star and wins like crazy.
If not, the University might start reaping the “rewards” of 30+ years of treating the average fan like garbage…..
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 7:26 pm
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Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:33 pm to TomFromBama
They "eased" him out after 2023. Eli would have stuck around with his mediocre calls for another 5 years had UA not forced him out today.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:38 pm to TomFromBama
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Really lousy way to treat an icon. It would have been VERY EASY to ease him out after 2024
Would have been even easier to put him out in 2016 like MRN did because of his embarrassing actions. He was with NASCAR for longer than he was at UA.
UA tried to give him an easy out, but the bitter old f$ck decided to go public to embarrass the school and try to win sympathy. Screw him and I hope that the reason he left MRN get revealed publicly.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:43 pm to TomFromBama
Seems like it would have also been VERY EASY to ease him out after 2023 Oh wait, we just did.
I have not read the full quote or story, but maybe Eli is just saying he’s not planning to retire from broadcasting. Has he been doing nascar and his other stuff since the diagnosis. Or just Bama of late?
I have not read the full quote or story, but maybe Eli is just saying he’s not planning to retire from broadcasting. Has he been doing nascar and his other stuff since the diagnosis. Or just Bama of late?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 1:51 am to TomFromBama
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Really lousy way to treat an icon. It would have been VERY EASY to ease him out after 2024 without firing him just months after a major health crisis.
CTSN/UA has been more than accommodating. Eli doesn’t have some god given right to retain the job forever. He’d gotten bad at it and even people that worked with him said he wasn’t giving it 100% and was difficult to work with….that was pre-cancer.
His contract was up this year. He could’ve read the room and called his own shot. He didn’t. That’s not UA’s fault.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:27 am to TomFromBama
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Really lousy way to treat an icon. It would have been VERY EASY to ease him out after 2024 without firing him just months after a major health crisis.
More bullshat and disloyalty from UA.
I sure hope Deboer is a rock star and wins like crazy.
If not, the University might start reaping the “rewards” of 30+ years of treating the average fan like garbage…..
Exactly, the amount of disrespectful Alabama fans celebrating one of the most iconic voices of Alabama football history being forced out is disgusting. However, it's incredibly indicative of our society writ large now.
Eli Gold was an iconic voice for CTSN, TNN, and MRN just to name a few. His calls of the 1999 Florida game in Gainesville with Kenny, the Penn State block in 1989, Rocky Block in 2009, the Drake return against Clemson, his Talladega race calls, Daytona race calls, all of these made him a radio legend with an iconic and unique voice. It's shameful and disgusting to see people on this here board celebrate the firing of a legend and a man's voice that has transcended Alabama football. Alabama is the bad guy here, and they deserved to be booed. Eli Gold was a hell of a lot more than just the "Voice of Alabama Football."
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