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re: Eli Gold not returning to the radio booth
Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:30 am to Globetrotter747
Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:30 am to Globetrotter747
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1. If your lack of productivity is affecting the bottom line of a business (especially a competitive, big money business) you will be replaced. It doesn’t matter what you did ten years ago or even yesterday.
This is the part I’m having trouble understanding??? How on earth is a radio calls affecting the “bottom line” of the Alabama football business??
Advertising sure hasn’t suffered!!! Sponsors are still lined up hip deep to run commercials during our games. But isn’t the REAL “Bottom Line” Wins and Losses?
I could totally understand if Eli was the head coach and we were going 6-6 each year. I could totally understand if Eli was the quarterback & was only completing 50 to 60% of his passes.
But I’m struggling to understand how many games we’ve lost because Eli Gold was old??
Can someone tell me if Eli cost us the Texas game? Was Eli responsible for those bad snaps against Michigan?
I don’t know the guy. Maybe Eli Gold is a horses arse. But my sense is that he’s a decent enough person that Nick Saban kept him on for 17 years after he had already been here for 20 something years….. I’m pretty sure that if Coach Saban thought Eli was an a-hole (OR a liability) then Eli would’ve been fired the next day.
Bottom line: the university fumbled here. This would’ve been super easy to handle with class and dignity EVEN IF Eli was being totally unreasonable.
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Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:41 am to TomFromBama
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How on earth is a radio calls affecting the “bottom line” of the Alabama football business??
Eli wasn’t employed by the University. He was employed by CTSN. They are the ones who made the business decision and I doubt they did it on a whim.
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:02 am to TomFromBama
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This would’ve been super easy to handle with class and dignity
Agreed. They could have let him call home games last year. Then they could have told him in private that it was time, but they appreciated what he had done. They could have offered him some guest spots.
AND ELI COULD HAVE POLITELY ACCEPTED OR DECLINED AND GRACIOUSLY PASSED IT OFF TO HIS SUCCESSOR WITHOUT CAUSING A PUBLIC SCENE.
Now, his former employer is in the awkward position of trying to be nice and not just outright say he's lost a few steps, and wasn't doing his job. Watts had to interupt him several times in the game I listened to last year and do Eli's job just so the audience didn't miss whole plays.
This post was edited on 2/23/24 at 8:04 am
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:23 am to TomFromBama
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Advertising sure hasn’t suffered!!! Sponsors are still lined up hip deep to run commercials during our games. But isn’t the REAL “Bottom Line” Wins and Losses?
Advertising hasn't suffered because it's the University of Alabama. We didn't have to scrounge for advertising during the Dubose years. It's a captive market.
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But I’m struggling to understand how many games we’ve lost because Eli Gold was old??
Can someone tell me if Eli cost us the Texas game? Was Eli responsible for those bad snaps against Michigan?
Eli doesn't affect the on-field performance at all, as I'm sure you know. What he DOES impact is the game experience for people listening to the radio.
What some folks don't seem to understand is that Eli was the broadcasting equivalent of Seth McLaughlin. He was a veteran who couldn't routinely do the basics of his job properly.
Serious request for folks who are complaining about this: Listen to a recorded version of a quarter of a random Alabama game from the past three or four years, and then listen to the recorded version of another team's broadcast. Heck, listen to the other team's broadcast of the same game. Don't watch a video of the game while you do it -- just listen to the audio. I think you'll be surprised at how little detail Eli provided on each play compared to other broadcast teams.
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