re: I know I shouldnt have, but listened to Finebaum...

He's now on 790AM in Atlanta 3-7PM. Its fricking awful. Finebaum himself isnt so bad but the freaking morons who he lets just take over the show are terrible. Seriously its like the radio version of Jerry Springer.

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I think that's the other issue for both fanbases in the SEC and outside of the SEC. My perception of him is that he's the mouthpiece of Alabama football and lacks the ability to be as interested in other programs as he is in #1 Alabama and #2 Auburn.

He's essentially a local personality with local interests being put into the position of being nationally distributed. If the SEC is to expand their brand as the #1 product in college football that's not what you should want in a highly distributed "SEC" media program.

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This.

However, his representation is Bama#1 and then after 20 miles distance #2 Auburn, then a few miles after that everybody else. Finebaum literally is like radio version of Jerry Springer. He knows he will get the best performance radio out of the Mullet Nation. However, if he ever pandered a little to the ACC and stirred up the Noles and Clemson folks, he'd get some gomers out of that crowd too.

I hate to sound like an old "get off my lawn" type but his show was better in my opinion when it was a local show. Believe it or not, he actually had some reasonably intelligent Alabama and Auburn regulars who outnumbered the Jerry Springer types. As he has gotten bigger he has attracted truckloads of Jerry Springer type callers and they now dominate the show. There were wacky callers back then but not nearly as many as there are now. I also liked his show WAY better when he had Neal Vickers as a sidekick.

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I have no interest in listening to the unwashed rednecks spout off in public. No good comes of it, and I just get frustrated.

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SEC Rant isn't much of an improvement

I knew this about Finebaum -- but I live out of state. Until recently couldn't hear him & was happy with that. All the SEC network rollout -- thought I would give him another listen on Serius XM, Shamed me and my Alabama roots. I just hate to see this show represent the SEC. Too many good folks

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I hate to sound like an old "get off my lawn" type but his show was better in my opinion when it was a local show. Believe it or not, he actually had some reasonably intelligent Alabama and Auburn regulars who outnumbered the Jerry Springer types. As he has gotten bigger he has attracted truckloads of Jerry Springer type callers and they now dominate the show. There were wacky callers back then but not nearly as many as there are now. I also liked his show WAY better when he had Neal Vickers as a sidekick.

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All of this.....was a much, much better show when it was just a local B'ham sports talk show. I don't remember any Jerry Springer antics at all....and it was good discussion between AU and UA fans...at least it was civil.....but has just got a lot worse over the years especially since 2010 and Finebaum has really fanned the flames.

The Finebaum show doesn't make the SEC look bad. Finebaum performs a valuable service by showing the world that Alabama fans are mostly compete morons like that hag, Phyllis.

keeper of the spoon....

And the reason he was hired on at ESPN was the very same reason people post out here about him.

He draws attention... good or bad.

He is a Saban homer first. Then a Bama homer when they are winning. He will ride the jocks of whichever team in the SEC is winning at the time.

Food for thought: he dissed Saban and Bama fans when Saban was named coach. His commentaries were down right brutal at times. But then he hitched his wagon and rode the shirttails of Saban to the promised land he now sits in.

paul introduced me to tammy from auburn.
I want her to have sex with me. remember, crazy cooze is unbelievable.

I hope ESPN has a way of measuring where the viewers are who watch him on the SEC network. I doubt there will be much viewership outside of Alabama. He's a hack with zero credibility.