re: Eli Gold not returning to the radio booth

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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.

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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.