re: Eli Gold not returning to the radio booth

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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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So if we agree that it wasn’t hurting advertising, and it wasnt costing us games, then what the hell?

The reality is that probably fewer than 5% and maybe fewer than 1%, of Alabama fans rely on the radio call as their ONLY source of information during games . There hasn’t been an Alabama football game that wasn’t broadcast on TV somewhere, somehow pretty much since the Shula era.

When I go to games, I very rarely see people listening to the radio call - maybe 5% of the people? Maybe? And it’s been that way since the day they started charging for the stadium radio broadcast.

And I’d wager that upwards of 90 to 95% of the people watching Alabama games on TV are not listening to the radio call and would not be listening if it was Keith Jackson in his prime.

This was a money move by a greedy university, acting through its radio arm to save a buck. PERIOD. The pissing and moaning about Eli sucking as a radio announcer isn’t new! I’ve been hearing that stuff for 30+ years. He always had his haters and they’ve never liked him. The people who like him have never been bothered by his calls.

And I love Chris Stewart. I’m sure we will win a lot more games with him making the radio calls!! LOL!!!