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Finebaum is touting his Alma Mater, UT again. Paul is Vols to his core but he may be right

Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:26 pm
Posted by jimdog
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:26 pm
this time. He was frothing at the mouth about the return of the big Orange a few years back under their ex cheerleader coach and actually picked them to win the SEC. But Pruitt is a different breed of cat.

Finebaum touts him as a knockoff of Saban but he is a Paul Bryant guy. His dad was a hell of a coach and very close to Bryant. He played for Boots a couple of years @ Middle then gave up his scholarship to walk on at Alabama and be coached by Stallings and his position coach was Bill "Brother" Oliver. Two hard core Bryant diciplies. JP can recruit but he is also a hell of a motivator. And a tough, old school Sand Mountain son of a B. I hated they hired him but I had a feeling Fulmer would pull the string and he did. Good for the league and southern football.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:27 pm to
asparagus
Posted by Pipedream
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:30 pm to
“You can’t Beat the Best Paul, and Tennessee ain’t the Best!”
Posted by sand mountainDvalues
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:35 pm to
Spot on as per
Posted by scionofadrunk
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:36 pm to
You will catch heat in the comments below, but let it be known your threads are more insightful than ninety percent of the rest that often litter the first page OTB
Posted by ShaneTheLegLechler
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 9:38 pm to
Posted by LSUNV
In the woods or on the water
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 10:10 pm to
It doesn’t scare LSU at all! If anything it would help us
Posted by cajunbama
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 10:47 pm to
Nobody is worried about Germy at Tenner.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 5/9/20 at 10:58 pm to
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Paul is Vols to his core












Posted by Todd Greene
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Member since Aug 2019
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 3:05 am to
I said in a post a while back, "if Tenn can get off to a good start that they'll be a dangerous team. Hard to handle down the stretch and more than a darkhorse to win the east."

Everybody seems impressed with GA and Jaime Newman but I've seen him play against good defenses and he looked very ordinary if not ineffective. Fla, get out of here! What they got? All-Americans? All-SEC 1RST TEAM? Can you be them off the top of your head?

Tennessee has everybody coming back. Off line will be a beast and they're well coached on defense.

Good special teams and added depth that has been sorely lacking in the past.

Give Jeremy the time and Tennessee will be back! All the way back! And as I stated before, "A THORN IN GA & FLA'S SIDE!"

Can u dig it?
I knew that u could!
Posted by AHM21
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 4:42 am to
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Draconian Sanctions



Finebaum isn't a "Bama fan." He just knows how to rile the base and reel them back in better than any guy in the market. That fact + Updyke is the reason he made it to ESPN.
Posted by jimdog
columbus, ga
Member since Dec 2012
6636 posts
Posted on 5/10/20 at 6:53 am to
LOL! Paul made his bones blasting Alabama @ the old Birmingham Post Herald. They even had a section of the sports page where mad Alabama fans could write nasty comments to him called "Fussin' with Finebaum". The Auburn fans loved him of course at the time. Then he took his anti-Bama thing to a local call-in radio show. And ridiculed Bama fans and the program even worse. He is a UT grad and they/he hated UA!

BTW Mike Slive tempered it(his hatred of UA) down and made him famous by getting him to be pro-SEC. He even made the peace by getting UA to allow Paul to be the honorary coach of one of Bama's two A-Day squads (your photo). But when he first started his radio show his favorite guest was the gay UT booster who bragged about paying players at Tennessee and even had a hot tub where he would entertain them. He lost the number one linebacker in the nation for UT by bringing him on live from his home where he pitched a party for him and got him drunk and had him commit live to UT! The gay guy got UT in some trouble. The kid wound up @ Alabama! What a time to be alive back then!
Posted by Captain Crown
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 7:09 am to
Who cares about Finebaum? Lots of people on this site could give takes like him.
Posted by ClemsonMatt
Member since Jan 2020
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 9:38 am to
Pruitt is coming for sure
Posted by Lsualum2017
Member since Apr 2018
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 9:39 am to
Pruitt hasn’t accomplished a damn thing yet
Posted by arcalades
USA
Member since Feb 2014
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 9:41 am to
quote:

Finebaum touts him as a knockoff of Saban but he is a Paul Bryant guy
it's small minded to try to label coaches this way. Pruit is Pruit. Saban is Saban. Does anyone thing of Belichick as a Parcells guy? No. Every coach is his own person. Is Smart a Saban knockoff? no.
Posted by mouse_cop
The South
Member since Aug 2019
3515 posts
Posted on 5/10/20 at 9:58 am to
Tennessee, Texas, & Nebraska are all has-been programs that will never return to the levels of success that they've reached in the past. The highest any of them will ever be ranked is in the preseason poll before yet another 5-7 season
Posted by 1badboy
In space
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 10:01 am to
Paul is a Saban ball sucker now & for ever!!!
Posted by BZ504
Texas
Member since Oct 2005
12923 posts
Posted on 5/10/20 at 12:41 pm to
UT finished the season pretty strong, horrible start. The Bama game should have been close. A lot of blatant calls in that game. Specifically the personal foul where the guy used the QB to lift himself so he could get on his feet after a sack.
Posted by Serraneaux
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Member since Mar 2014
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Posted on 5/10/20 at 12:52 pm to
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