ESPN already has a building in Charlotte, so there's no major setup for the SEC Network.With the SEC office being in B'ham, why charlotte?
Meh. Moore does a good Bebes and Pat Dye imitation.What are the opinions of the Doug Bell & Scott Moore radio show. I understand that it is coming to Memphis in June.
That's "Rock Star". I'm a fan of the Round Table in general, but agree he's the worst part of it. No matter what non-sports subject they talk about, he's too cool for it. Any TV show? Any singer or band? Any movie? They're all derivative and/or from a dead genre and/or have a transparent plot and/or lame and/or produced by sell-outs and he can't believe that the ignorant masses watch or listen to it. He's a hipster dufus. _eyes:The morning until 2pm is the worst offenders on the the low-sports-content front. You are right that the Round Table is better but its worse to me because they have that sorry singer/musician type who just seems like he's around to make Gay Waltrip jokes and sing crappy 90s alt rock music.
The guests are the only thing I would miss about Finebaum in the football season; I normally didn't listen in the offseason. I'll be curious to see if Sirius XM carries him.I hated listening to the callers on FB they made southern folks look stupid, but he had Great guest & is a very good interviewer.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/paul_finebaum_talks_nick_saban.html
Finebaum makes his debut on ESPN.
On the prospects of Texas A&M beating Alabama two years in a row: "Texas A&M fans are very proud. They think they are going to beat Alabama again. I will go ahead and end the suspense. They're not."
Paul Finebaum is more of a macroview guy. He does have a good feel for things. He was always lukewarm on Shula and Chizik. He was right in both cases. People don't like it because he tells the hard truth (most of the time). He can get caught up in the scandalous a bit but for the most part I just think he cuts the truth too hard for partisans. No one wants to hear that Shula is lost or a hack when he's the guy leading their beloved program. Notice how cries of being "pro-bama" are common now that we have a high-quality coach when Alabama fans were calling him "anti-bama" from around 2002 through 2006.Any halfway decent football fan—and certainly any journalist—could tell that Paul had very little real game knowledge, didn't really follow players, and in fact was not even that in tune with the college football universe beyond the scandalous, which was where he excelled (and that is not praise). He had great guests on his Birmingham show, but THEY brought the knowledge, and at times Paul struggled to interview them... his questions were surface-level at best and not terribly insightful. And he didn't seem to care, either.
The guests always made up for it. For example, he'd ask Gary Danielson "What do you think about XX game?" and Gary would bring it for five minutes on that one question.
Paul was a decent editorialist and knew how to tap into and stir public opinion. He was a good writer, but a very awkward wordsmith on the radio. He frequently struggled for words, and used the wrong words when he meant something else. That will not play well on TV.
ESPN got a very raw deal, and Birmingham radio is better off. The Roundtable runs circles around Paul for football and general sports knowledge. The only thing I dislike is having to wait until 2:00 now for the best show in the market (and indeed in pretty much ANY market in the SE; I travel a lot and have found it's hard to beat The Roundtable).
Good riddance, and sorry, SEC Network. You're not getting what you think you're paying for.
I don't think anything on WJOX is worth a darn anymore. Opening Drive is bad. The Round Table is annoying. The new stuff is setting new lows.
I feel like each of their shows somehow talk about sports less than Finebaum when I know Finebaum's shows frequently veered off course a good bit.
Curious about what you find annoying? They're pretty knowledgable and treat their callers with respect which is pretty rare in sports talk radio.
I hear F-bomb get labeled as Pro-Bama all the time but I think that comes from the XM Radio folks that have only heard him give Bama props since Saban came on board. They never heard the bashing he gave us during the Shula era. If anything, Paul has a love affair with Coach Saban, not Alabama.Notice how cries of being "pro-bama" are common now that we have a high-quality coach when Alabama fans were calling him "anti-bama" from around 2002 through 2006.
At least his success avails him to quality guests. I hope that joining ESPN won't kill his segments with CBS affiliated guest.
Basically what CrimsonProf said...also all their non-sports segments are dumb to me.Curious about what you find annoying? They're pretty knowledgable and treat their callers with respect which is pretty rare in sports talk radio.
You're lucky...I had never heard of this guy until Alabama made its recent run of national championships. Another man who has leveraged Alabama's success and made the most of the resultant opportunities.
I had never heard of this guy until Alabama made its recent run of national championships. Another man who has leveraged Alabama's success and made the most of the resultant opportunities.